Another Possible Female Viagra
Written by Stuart Stevens | Wednesday, 17 January 2007 | There are 0 comments
We have had a lot of these types of stories in the last couple of years as ‘Women Viagra’ really is the Hoy Grail of the pharmaceutical industry and a successful drug for women's sex lives would be likely to be worth far more than Viagra, Cialis and Levitra put together.
The latest story however concerns the use of a drug that will work directly in the brain of a woman in the part that controls her pleasure zones in order to boost libido. The drug that is called flibanserin has been developed and researched by a German drug company called Boehringer Ingelheim. If they get the drug right they will certainly be worth backing and will make millions of dollars for them.
In fact like so many of the world’s best drugs it was discovered by accident when it was undergoing tests for use as an anti-depressant. In fact the results for the drug as an anti-depression were a complete failure but participants said that they had experienced an increase in desire for sex.
Boehringer Ingelheim is at present busy with 4 different clinical trials with five thousand women in over 200 different places the results if these trial they hope will eventually mean full approval from the FDA in America sometime in the next couple of years. The funny thing is that Boehringer Ingelheim has no clear idea why their new drug works and why it has this effect on women.
Boehringer Ingelheim The funny thing is that Boehringer Ingelheim has no clear idea why their new drug works and why it has this effect on women.
Unlike male sexual dysfunction female sexual dysfunction is a very complicated thing as it is far more connected with the brain than it is connected with the genital region and as the brain is far more complicated it is far more difficult for scientists to find exactly what is going in there.
The researchers acknowledge that this drug is unlikely to get a woman suddenly feeling like sex but that it will likely get them to at least have the same level of sexual desire that they had before they lost it for whatever reason.
The Flibanserin drug it seems stimulates the part of the human brain that is connected with pleasure and sexual arousal and this is why the scientists believe that it has a beneficial effect on sexual desire.
