Diabetes and premature ejaculation

While premature ejaculation is often considered to be a fairly minor problem when compared to the more severe one of diabetes, the two can be linked. If you have diabetes, it may well be that premature ejaculation symptoms will rear its head more frequently, causing an additional dimension of annoyance to your life! While curing premature ejaculation won’t do anything much for diabetes, working on reducing diabetes symptoms may also help you reduce premature ejaculation symptoms, so it’s a good idea to know how they can be linked.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a disease which is caused by problems the body has producing sufficient quantities of insulin to deal with keeping your blood glucose levels level. Often, diabetes is caused by poor diet; a lifetime intake of too much refined sugar and fats will put your body into a state where it is eternally having difficulties with high sugar levels in the blood. The result is a range of symptoms including dizziness, frequent urination, unexplained weight loss, high cholesterol, skin problems, eye problems, kidney damage and even coma and death. About 20 million Americans suffer from diabetes with a further 40 million suffering from pre-diabetes.

Diabetes and Premature Ejaculation

Studies have found that between 50% and 75% of men with diabetes also suffers from premature ejaculation and a great deal of research has gone into figuring out the correlation. The research is further demanded by the fact that conventional medicines like Viagra do not work as well on diabetics.

Research has found that the presence of a simple sugar found in diabetics, but not so much in non-diabetics, is at least partially responsible for the erectile dysfunctions which these men suffer from. This simple sugar disrupts the normal operating of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, type of enzyme which is responsible for maintaining erections. The sugar found in diabetics disrupts this and so causes many diabetics to have erectile problems. Studies are now being done which looks at ways to suppress this sugar and so help diabetics get their normal sex life back again.

Dealing with It Yourself

There are ways to limit the impact of diabetes and so help yourself manage premature ejaculation. Eating a diet with more whole grains and veggies and limiting your sugar intake will help to reduce the symptoms of diabetes. Eating more whole grains and foods like that will also give you more B vitamins and minerals which are necessary to maintain a stronger erection.

Diabetics don’t have to worry about their sex life being over. With the right research and the right care, you can have a normal and good sex life without the phantom of premature ejaculation hovering over you.