Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the check for erectile and sexual operate, sperm depend, and semen high quality.
In 2013, I posted a video based mostly on a research that discovered that males with erectile dysfunction who ate 100 grams of pistachios (just a little greater than three handsful) a day for 3 weeks had “a big enchancment in erectile operate.” It’s at all times good to see a whole-food intervention have medical results, and I used to be curious to revisit the subject and see what’s been printed since.
Even if you happen to ignore all of the lab animal research on hazelnuts enhancing the operate of rat testicles—actually, there’s a research titled “Hazelnut Consumption Improves Testicular Antioxidant Operate and Semen High quality in Younger and Previous Male Rats”—you continue to by no means know what you’ll discover looking out the medical literature for nuts and sexual operate. I discovered “a case of penile strangulation with a metallic hex nut” during which somebody put one on his penis “for sexual pleasure” however couldn’t take away it. (I assume some sorts of nuts can generally make issues worse.) They tried the Dundee approach, which includes creating 20 puncture holes to alleviate the strain, however that didn’t work, so then they tried a diamond disk cutter. It slipped a couple of instances, however the hex nut was efficiently eliminated. All’s nicely that ends nicely.
That acquired me curious. Evidently, penile entrapment is so frequent that there is a whole grading system that emergency room medical doctors can use, as you may see right here and at 1:21 in my video Combined Nuts Put to the Check for Erectile Dysfunction. If a drill isn’t out there, the surgeons suggested, “a hammer and chisel could also be used to take away nuts.”
A drill? Oh, they imply a dental drill. Medical doctors describing one case bragged concerning the “exactly lower edges,” nevertheless it seems to be fairly jagged to me. You’ll be able to see for your self beneath and at 1:38 in my video.
To “protect the penis from deadly outcomes” (that’s an odd solution to put it), urologists ought to pay attention to all of the out there instruments and approaches, and if you happen to don’t know the way to function the noticed, you may at all times name within the native blacksmith—however provided that “particular consent [is] taken from the affected person”!
However how are you going to take away an iron barbell or metal sledgehammer head? “With a heavy-duty air grinder offered by the hearth division,” requiring six hours of reducing and hearth coats to guard the affected person from the sparks. Use no matter it takes—hack noticed, “cement eater.” You’ll be able to even use the silk winding technique pioneered by Dong et al.
Again to the duty at hand! Consuming “at the least one serving of greens a day and greater than two servings of nuts per week was related to a greater than 50% lower within the chance of ED” [erectile dysfunction] in a snapshot-in-time cross-sectional research. However such observational research can’t show trigger and impact. It’s like discovering that males who eat more healthy have higher sperm motility. Perhaps males who eat nuts are simply well being nuts, and the advance is because of another issue, like train. What we’d like is an interventional trial.
And there’s one: a randomized managed trial studied the “impact of nut consumption on semen high quality and performance.” Wholesome males have been fed the usual American food regimen with or with no combination of nuts—a handful (30 grams) of walnuts and half a handful (15 grams) every of almonds and hazelnuts. People within the nut group skilled vital enhancements of their whole sperm depend, vitality, motility, and form, maybe as a result of these “within the nut group confirmed a big discount in SDF”—sperm DNA fragmentation. The nuts appeared to guard their sperm DNA. It’s too unhealthy that the researchers didn’t measure the lads’s erectile and sexual dysfunction whereas they have been at it. Oh, however they did!
What is the impact of nut consumption on erectile and sexual operate from that very same research? The researchers report that these within the nut group noticed a significant enhance in orgasmic operate and sexual need, however what about erectile operate? Any time you see this sort of selective glass-half-full reporting, you observed some type of business funding, and, certainly, that was the case right here; the research was partially funded by the Worldwide Nut and Dried Fruit Council. Sure, there was a marginal enhance in orgasmic operate and sexual need of questionable medical significance, however there was no enchancment in erectile operate, intercourse satisfaction, or total satisfaction. As with so many comparisons, even the so-called vital findings could not even be statistically vital.
However why did the pistachios I talked about again in 2013 work, whereas these different nuts didn’t? Effectively, the unique research was executed on males largely of their 40s and 50s who already had power erectile dysfunction for at the least one yr, whereas the typical age of members within the newer research was 24. So, the people within the later research could have began out with near-maximum circulation, not leaving a lot room for the nuts to work any magic.
Physician’s Word
Sorry for that loopy tangent! I simply needed to provide individuals a style of what it may be like if you dive deep into the medical literature.
The 2013 video I discussed is Pistachio Nuts for Erectile Dysfunction.
What about walnuts for arterial blood stream? See Walnuts and Artery Operate.
Extra on fertility and sexual operate within the associated posts beneath.
