Walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts are used to test erectile and sexual function, sperm count and semen quality.
In 2013, I posted a video based on a study found Men with erectile dysfunction who ate 100 grams (a little more than three handfuls) of pistachios daily for three weeks had “significant improvements in erectile function.” It’s always good to see that a whole-food intervention has a clinical effect, and I was curious to revisit this topic and see what has been published since then.
Even if you ignore all laboratory animal studies on hazelnuts Improvement in Rat testicular function – in fact, there is a study titled “Hazelnut consumption improves testicular antioxidant function and semen quality in young and old male rats” – you still never know what you will find when you search the medical literature for nuts and sexual function. I found “A case of penis strangulation with a metal hex nut” in which someone placed a nut on his penis “for sexual pleasure” but could not remove it. (I find that certain types of nuts can sometimes make things worse.) He tried the Dandy technique, which involves making 20 puncture holes to relieve pressure, but it didn’t work, so then he tried a diamond disc cutter. It slipped a few times, but the hex nut was successfully removed. All is well that ends well.
This made me curious. Apparently, penis entrapment is so common there Is A complete grading system that emergency room doctors can use, as you can see here and in my video at 1:21 Mixed nuts are added to test erectile dysfunction. If no drill is available, the surgeon advised“A hammer and chisel can be used to remove the nuts.”
a drill? oh, they Meaning A dental drill. Doctors describing one case bragged about “precisely cut edges,” but that sounds pretty sloppy to me. You can see for yourself below and at 1:38 in my Video.
To “preserve The penis is prone to fatal consequences” (that’s a weird way to put it), urologists should know about all the available tools and approaches, and if you don’t Know How to operate a saw, you can always call the local blacksmith – but only if “special consent has been obtained from the patient”!
But how are you going? Removal Iron barbell or steel sledgehammer head? “With a heavy-duty air grinder provided by the fire department,” it required six hours of cutting and fire coat to protect the patient from sparks. Use whatever is necessary – hack saw, “cement eater.” you can even Use The silk winding method introduced by Dong et al.
Back to the task at hand! consumer The snapshot-in-time cross-sectional study states, “At least one serving of vegetables per day and more than two servings of nuts a week were associated with more than a 50% reduction in the likelihood of ED” (erectile dysfunction). But such observational studies cannot prove cause and effect. like it Search Men who eat healthy foods have better sperm motility. Maybe men who eat nuts are just health nuts, and the improvement is due to some other factor like exercise. We need an interventional trial.
And there is one: a randomized controlled trial Study “Effect of walnut consumption on semen quality and functionality.” Healthy men were fed a standard American diet with or without a mixture of nuts – a handful (30 grams) of walnuts and a half-handful (15 grams) of almonds and hazelnuts. Individuals in the walnut group experienced significant improvements in their total sperm count, vitality, motility, and size, perhaps because “those in the walnut group experienced a significant reduction in SDF” – sperm DNA fragmentation. Nuts appear to protect their sperm DNA. It’s too bad that researchers didn’t measure men’s erectile and sexual dysfunction while they were working on it. Oh, but they did it!
What Is Effect of walnut consumption on erection and sexual function from the same study? Researchers report that men in the nut group saw a significant increase in orgasmic function and sexual desire, but what about erectile function? Whenever you see this kind of selective glass-half-full reporting, you suspect some kind of industry funding, and, indeed, that was the case here; The study was partially funded by the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council. Yes, there was a modest increase in orgasmic function and sexual desire of questionable clinical significance, but there was no improvement in erectile function, orgasm satisfaction, or overall satisfaction. As with so many comparisons, even so-called significant findings may not be statistically significant.
But why did the pistachios I talked about in 2013 work, while these other nuts didn’t? Well, the original study was Done Most focused on men in their 40s and 50s who already had chronic erectile dysfunction for at least a year, while the average age of participants in the new study Was 24. So, the individuals in the latter study would have started out with near-maximal circulation, not leaving much room for the nuts to do any magic.
doctor’s note
Sorry for that crazy tangent! I just wanted to let people know what it can be like when you delve deep into the medical literature.
The 2013 video I mentioned Pistachios for erectile dysfunction.
What about walnuts for arterial blood flow? Look nut and artery function.
There is more information on fertility and sexual function in the related post below.
