The Causes of Erectile Dysfunction

Impotence, another name of erectile dysfunction, involve men of 40 and upwards. The causes include both physical (80%) and psychological (20%). Men with this diagnosis should not get frustrated as there are effective therapies able to cure this malfunction.

Every man at some moments of his life may not be able to begin and keep up a full erection till the end of the process. This condition is called “erectile dysfunction”. If this happens occasionally according to exhaustion, distress, alcohol, it is considered to be a temporary sexual dysfunction and does not influence his life or his relations much.

But in case of confirmed erectile dysfunction, there is much more serious influence on the man’s self-respect, on the personal happiness and on his health. Nearly 5% of men aged 40 or 50 and 15-25% of men aged 60-65 suffer from confirmed erectile dysfunction.

Causation

At the beginning, most men tend to shift the blame on exhaustion, distress and something like that but in most case the reason is physical (70-80%). Though you should not ignore psychological blocks as it is quite hard to diagnose them and cure.

1) Cardiovascular diseases. The chief cause of impotence at men in their 60s is atherosclerosis the main danger of getting which is smoking.

2) Psychological causes. Among such causes resulting in impotence are fear of having a sexual failure, distress, melancholy, and guilt, also social and marital pressure.

3) Diseases of endocrine system. Only 5% of cases of impotence are causes by these disorders. It happens when the level of testosterone is reduced and the libido diminishes so the erection does not occur.

4) Neurological disorders. Strokes, backbone damages may break the neurovascular circulation between the brain and the phallus. Among other reasons of impotence are Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases.

5) Operations. If the man has recently had a surgery or a trauma in the pelvic zone it can be a reason of impotence as the small vascular nervous structures responsible for keeping up the erection can be easily harmed.