Research On Diabetes And Erectile Dysfunction Link.

They were not looking for cures for this problem...

More research been done on the link between diabetic men and erectile dysfunction. Doctors and scientists have been puzzled for years about the fact that so many diabetic men report erectile difficulties and put it down to the fact that diabetic men will often be overweight or obese and therefore they were in a high risk category for erectile dysfunction.  The problem was however that being obese and a diabetic drastically increased your chances of erectile dysfunction when compared to men who were just obese and therefore this led to scientists to conclude that there must be some other reason for this high incidence of erectile dysfunction.

When we first came across this study at Ukmedix News it got tossed around the newsroom quite a bit.  We all nodded our heads and pretended to understand what the scientists were going on about and about the mechanisms involved in producing an erection. It’s all pretty complicated and it involves a number of chemicals, blood flow, brain impulses and stimulation. The scientists who did the study on the link between diabetes and erectile dysfunction delved right into the mechanisms of how an erection is created and it’s so complicated that we didn’t want to bore you with the details in this news article. What we can tell you though however is that nitric oxide is an important part of the mechanism of sustaining an erection and that diabetics seem to have a lack of this vital chemical.

According to the scientists it is necessary to have the right amount of nitric oxide in the hypothalamus part of the brain and that if you don’t have enough of this substance you cannot send the correct signals to the penile area and thus the penile artery will not open to let blood flow to the penis. In fact what this means is that a man who is a diabetic and who is suffering from erectile dysfunction has no actual mechanism problem in the penile area but is just suffering from a lack of the chemical in the brain area.

The researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Centre had their research published in the American Journal of Physiology. They were not looking for cures for this problem but were purely trying to understand why it happens. Nevertheless their research will be extremely important to help scientists who are looking for a definitive cure to this problem. The research mainly involved diabetic rats that have been seen to exhibit the same sort of problems that human diabetics have too.