Physician-led · Confidential · Est. 2009
Vol. 01The Journal
No sponsored content, no affiliate links, and no article that exists to sell a procedure. Where the evidence contradicts something this clinic offers, we publish that too.
Lead
Most men who develop a bend wait a year before mentioning it, and by then the window in which the most effective treatments work has often closed. The single most useful thing to understand is which phase you are in.
· Marcus Elwood, MD
We offer this treatment and we grade its evidence as emerging rather than established. Both of those things are true at once, and a man considering a course of it deserves to understand exactly why.
Platelet-rich plasma is one of the higher-margin procedures this clinic offers, and we label it investigational in the largest type on its own page. Here is the reasoning, and how to apply the same test to anyone selling it.
It has the highest response rate of any non-surgical treatment for erectile dysfunction, and almost nobody wants it when it is first described. The gap between the idea and the experience is wider here than anywhere else in men's health.
Every month men search for ED pills that do not need a prescription. There is a reason the honest answer is uncomfortable — and it is not that the products do nothing.
Almost every telehealth service now sells a 2-in-1 or 3-in-1. We have taken apart eight of them. The pharmacology is simpler than the marketing, and it is not in the marketing’s favour.
Search for where to buy this medication and a large share of the first page is written by people who are paid when you click through. Here is how that shapes what you are shown — including what can never appear.
Mostly yes, with two specific exceptions that matter a great deal. Having reviewed two dozen of these services in detail, here is how to tell which kind you are dealing with in about ninety seconds.
Erectile dysfunction is roughly three times more common in men with diabetes, tends to arrive a decade earlier, and responds differently to treatment. Understanding why changes what you should ask for.
Roughly a quarter of men presenting with new erectile dysfunction are under forty. The causes are usually different from those in older men, the outlook is usually better, and the delay before seeking help is usually longer.
An entire product category is built on the claim that a tablet dissolving under your tongue reaches you sooner. Somebody ran the trial. The answer is about seven minutes — and it was not statistically significant.
Penile arteries are roughly a third the diameter of coronary arteries. That single anatomical fact explains why erectile dysfunction is often the first symptom of a disease that has nothing to do with sex.
Most men who believe they have failed oral medication have never had a fair trial of it. Six things go wrong, and all six are fixable.
Low-T clinics have made testosterone the most over-prescribed hormone in men's health. Here is how to tell whether you actually need it.
Silence is the most common response and the most damaging one. What partners actually report thinking — and how the conversation tends to go when men finally have it.
The months following radical prostatectomy are a narrow window. What you do in them meaningfully affects what function returns.
Not the generic advice. The specific interventions with measurable effects on erectile function, ranked by how much difference they make.
Reading is not a diagnosis
Everything on this page is general education. Which of it applies to you is a question that requires a physician, an examination and a blood panel.
Giveaway
One reader gets 12 months of CoreAge Rx 4PLAY, free. At $114 / month, that is a $1,368 value.
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