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"The use of the carnitines in treating sexual dysfunction is getting more and more popular. For example, recent research suggests that acetyl-L-carnitine helps improve depression, fatigue, and sexual dysfunction that most men experience with aging. This is what physicians call andropause. In a 2004 study, Italian researchers used a randomized clinical trial to determine if acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine could improve andropause symptoms in aging men." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Paxil commonly causes sexual dysfunction ... so why prescribe it for sexual dysfunction? The imaginative social worker thought that Paxil's side effects might benefit Henry by slowing down his sexual response. She was not alone in making this unsound recommendation but it was unusual, and hardly in the professional arena of a social worker. For the next five and one-half years, Henry dutifully took 20 mg of Paxil every day. He stopped seeing the social worker because he didn't feel she was helping." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Problems with reproductive organs can arise, as there is often a direct link with sexual dysfunction. Other issues could be painful emotional repression and a general lack of creative movement. When lack of movement occurs, a person may begin to control another as a way to compensate for their own retarded growth. This control may be through sex, money, or power-over. Solar Plexus Chakra The third chakra, or yellow solar plexus located in the center of the belly, lends the spark of fire that has the transformative ability to produce energy from solid matter." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Of all the side effects Harry experienced, sexual dysfunction was the only one his doctor had mentioned to him and was, therefore, the only one Harry could identify as drug-related. One friend who saw Harry several days a week at church activities noticed that Harry was "nervous and agitated," "fidgety," "forgetful," and "like a radio turned to all channels." But in general, Harry managed to keep his inner turmoil from almost everyone who knew him." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In one trial saw palmetto extract produced positive results similar to the drugs, but without the sexual dysfunction that accompanied drug use. Permixon is manufactured in Europe and not yet available in the U.S., but there are other supplements available here that are just as effective. Look for prostate products that contain beta-sitosterol, such as "Prostate Care" by Healthy Choice Nutritionals, which is even more powerful than saw palmetto. Drinking 5 cup[s of green tea daily may slow prostate cancer growth, a Chinese study shows." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"It is used to treat osteoporosis, depression, obesity, heart disease, sexual dysfunction, dementia, and autoimmune disease. Men do not form testosterone from DHEA, but women do, and I prescribe DHEA right away to women with a low sex drive and low testosterone levels. It is less expensive and has fewer side effects than testosterone. People with low DHEA complain that they no longer dream or sleep deeply or that they have a great tendency to catch colds and the flu. They tend to have aches and pains and are prone to bone loss." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Heart disease, dementia, bone loss, depression, urinary infections, and sexual dysfunction result from too little estrogen. There are two major risks of using any form of estrogen, natural or synthetic: excess blood clotting and excess cell stimulation leading to fibroids, cysts, and possibly cancer. So let's deal with the risks right up front. increased Blood Clotting Blood clots are six times more likely to occur during pregnancy than at any other time in a woman's life." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The first leads to difficult surgery and recovery; both cause urinary and sexual dysfunction in a substantial proportion of men. These serious side effects notwithstanding, there are other issues. A large proportion of cancers detected by PSA may be so-called indolent tumors, ones that are unlikely to produce clinical symptoms or affect survival. In other words, such tumors may be there, but do nothing that would reduce life expectancy. How does one know if his tumor is indolent or aggressive? How does one make what could be life or death decisions?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Because men with Klinefelter's tend to have abnormally low levels of testosterone and high levels of estrogen, they often suffer from infertility and sexual dysfunction. WARNING SIGN Men with Klinefelter's syndrome are at increased risk for osteoporosis and some serious autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.lt also raises their chances of developing breast cancer, testicular cancer, lung disease,and extragonadalgerm cell tumors, rare growths that can be cancerous." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Male diabetics are twice as likely to have sexual dysfunction as males who don't have diabetes. ?Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged twenty to seventy-four. ?People with diabetes are nearly twice as likely to get glaucoma as other adults. ?Diabetes patients are twice as likely to get cataracts as people without diabetes. Cataracts also develop at an earlier age among people who have diabetes. ?Skin and urinary tract infections are more common among men and women who have diabetes. ?" - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION Erectile dysfunction (also known as sexual dysfunction or an inability to attain and maintain an erection) affects 51.3 percent of men who have diabetes, according to a recent study completed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This compares with 18.4 percent of the general adult male population. The actual cause of erectile dysfunction among diabetic men is still under investigation, although several theories are being pursued." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Some 43% of women suffer with sexual dysfunction, compared to 31% of men, according to University of Chicago researcher Dr. Edward Laumann.5 Some $2 to $3 billion will be spent within the next ten years on products aimed at improving the sex lives of these women. Female sexual dysfunction is characterized by a lack of desire, arousal and orgasm. Lack of desire is the chief complaint among women, affecting about one-third of them at some point in their lives, says Cindy Meston, assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"For example, recent research suggests that acetyl-L-carnitine helps improve depression, fatigue, and sexual dysfunction that most men experience with aging. This is what physicians call andropause. In a 2004 study, Italian researchers used a randomized clinical trial to determine if acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine could improve andropause symptoms in aging men. One hundred twenty men aged sixty to seventy-four years received either testosterone, 2 grams of acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine, or placebo for six months." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"For instance, childbirths were not always carried out in hospitals, they were carried out in homes; nor were processes such as sexual dysfunction, hyperactivity, or circumcision previously considered primarily medical issues. Over the years, these and an increasing number of everyday practices have been caught in the net of medicalization and given narrowly scientific frameworks. We now have rigorous labor standards for pregnant women, pills to treat impotence and ADHD, and circumcision is an unquestioned hospital procedure for 80 percent of American families." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"While the symptoms of hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, and the rest are annoying at best, and can significantly impact quality oi life, the most significant changes associated with menopause are osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. These conditions can dramatically alter and even shorten one's life. For a comprehensive discussion on osteoporosis, refer to Chapter 14, and for heart disease, refer to Chapter 9. Prevalence, risk factors, evaluation, and alternative and conventional approaches and treatments are covered in these chapters." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Low estradiol levels result in an increase in heart disease, bone loss, dementia, depression, sexual dysfunction, and hair thinning. • There are at least five types of estrones. High levels of certain estrones (4-OH estrone and 16-OH estrone) have been linked to cancer. Some forms of estrogen (estriol, 2-hydroxyestrone, and 2-methoxyestrone) appear to prevent breast cancer and bone loss and to lower your risk of heart disease." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Their initial targets ranged from children with attention deficit disorder to adults with sexual dysfunction. They even believed Neurontin could be sold to those who went to the doctor because their hiccups would not stop. One of the biggest potential groups of customers was those who suffered from manic depression. The executives vowed to sell Neurontin as a treatment for these other conditions, even though the scientific evidence supporting such prescriptions consisted of little more than rumor or anecdotal reports written by physicians who had been paid by Parke-Davis." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "They suffered the same side effects, mostly nausea, sexual dysfunction, and insomnia. The patient volunteers also found that both drugs could take weeks to ease their depression, if they worked at all. The executives' theory that a chemical refinement could transform Celexa into a better drug was shown not once but three times to be wrong. With time running out, Forest executives turned to Dr. Jack M. Gorman, a psychiatrist at Columbia University who was already on the company's payroll as a consultant. Dr. Gorman had become a popular hire for the manufacturers of psychiatric drugs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "An overactive bladder, they said, could cause sexual dysfunction, emotional problems, and withdrawal from social activities. They also talked about Detrol and how clinical trials (paid for by Pharmacia) had found the drug was not only safe and effective but one of the best medicines to treat the disease. Pharmacia then paid to have the proceedings of the two London meetings published in supplements to the prominent medical journal Urology and distributed to physicians around the world." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"There are no problems such as diabetes, thyroid disease, pms, menstrual difficulties, hot flashes, prostate, hormone-based emotional problems, or sexual dysfunction problems. So, the objective in restoring health is to return the body to this state and let it produce its own hormones. As we move into our elder years, we can give our bodies some assistance with natural hgh precursors. To achieve this balanced objective, the body must be fed the raw materials it requires for the liver to initiate the hormone production process." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Most doctors know that they should not prescribe nitroglycerin for someone who is already taking a drug for sexual dysfunction. As I mentioned in Chapter 1, prescription errors can occur in as many as 25% of cases. I can promise you that, unfortunately, somewhere in the U.S. at this moment someone is writing an inappropriate prescription for Viagra. Think about all the junk e-mails about Cialis or similar drugs you get. There are some people getting nitro from their doctors who aren't telling their doctors that they are taking Cialis." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Side effects are jumpiness, sleep loss, insomnia, stomach upset, and sexual dysfunction. The antidepressant buproprion (Wellbutrin), also used for weight loss, has shown an average eight-pound weight reduction. Side effects are dry mouth, constipation, and diarrhea. The epilepsy drugs zonisamide (Zonegran) and topiramate (Topamax), which are also prescribed for weight loss, have shown statistically significant results. The side effects of zonisamide include dizziness, anxiety, restlessness, constipation, stomach pain, and, infrequently, mental changes, including depression and psychosis." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "This procedure has caused the most problems with sexual dysfunction and impotence. Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is 88% effective. With TURP the doctor inserts a small device into the penis and removes prostate tissue. Complications are blood clots, bleeding, and infection. Seventy percent develop retrograde ejaculation (ejaculation backward into the bladder), which does not affect sexual performance. One percent of men develop incontinence." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "One of the most troubling side effects of the SSRIs is sexual dysfunction, which affects about a third of patients. This includes loss of libido, delayed ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction. The antidepressants that don't have this side effect, like Wellbutrin, can be given in addition to an SSRI or substituted for it. Other antidepressants without sexual side effects include Remeron and Desyrel, drugs not in the SSRI class. SSRI treatment is also associated with about a threefold increase in the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Although the sexual dysfunction in this study was drug-induced rather than the result of changing hormones, I recommend trying this safe and simple approach. 40-80 mg standardized extract capsules or Vz-l tsp tincture 3 times per day Ginseng {Panax Ginseng). There are many types and grades of ginseng and ginseng extracts that include related species. Panax ginseng, also known as Korean or Chinese ginseng, is the most widely used. A standardized extract of ginseng has been shown to improve depression and well-being in 384 postmenopausal women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "More research is needed on the role of hormones in sexual dysfunction in women. In summary, the conventional practitioner's use of hormone therapy and the standard of practice these days is limited to three areas of use: menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis prevention or treatment, and vaginal or urogenital atrophic symptoms. The formulations of type, dose, and delivery have significandy increased, and it is important to work with a provider who is capable and knowledgeable about the various products." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"According to reports, insomnia (experienced by 15 percent to 20 percent of patients), weight gain (experienced by 18 percent to 50 percent), sexual dysfunction, nausea, diarrhea, headache, agitation, lethargy, and fatigue are common.130 In a study of Zoloft with children and adolescents, 17 of 189 subjects dropped out because of side effects, which included agitation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and anorexia.131 Sleep disturbance is a particularly nettle-some issue. " - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "I saw that the drugs sapped people of energy and creativity and had powerful potential side effects (in my experience dizziness, nausea, sweating, massive weight gain, involuntary muscle movements, restlessness, sexual dysfunction, premature onset of diabetes, and in extremely rare cases, death, to name a few). In my experience, for 10 to 20 percent of patients, the medications didn't seem to work at all. Even when they were effective, the pills would sometimes mysteriously stop working for no detectable reason." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"If one has a surgical menopause, the plasma levels of testosterone are decreased significantly more than in women in natural menopause,27 and this can result in an even greater incidence of sexual dysfunction than in women who went through a natural physiologic menopause. Acne, Facial Hair, and Hair Loss. Many peri- and postmenopausal women have problems related to the change in the ratio of estrogen to testosterone. Even though both hormones have declined, there is a relative increase in testosterone because there is less estrogen to block its effects." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"When asked under oath in deposition what kind of warnings he gave to his patient, Elliot's doctor explained, "I don't recall the specific conversation, but typically it would have probably been headache, nausea, and some sexual dysfunction." GSK advertising and promotion had created an environment in which many doctors believed that Paxil was a relatively harmless drug with no potential to cause madness. A psychologist saw Elliot three or four days after he began Paxil and emphasized his patient's increasing anger and irritability." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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