Sexual Health
Can chronic fatigue lead to sexual dysfunction? It is necessary to understand the common sense of preventing sexual dysfunction
Post Date April, 15 2023
All men have experienced temporary inability or weakness of penis erection due to fatigue in their life, which is a natural physiological phenomenon. However, if fatigue is not eliminated in time, it will produce a kind of similar pathological damage. Medical experts have pointed out that chronic fatigue can bring many sexual dysfunction (ED), which is the more common cause and aggravating factor of male ED.
The reason why fatigue causes ED is that muscle fatigue, or psychogenic fatigue caused by excessive brain, depression, anxiety, tension, etc. interfere with the arousal of sexual desire, including decreased brain function that inhibits sexual interest, decreased excitability of the emotional center of the cortical limbic system, and decreased sexual excitement due to decreased secretion of gonadotropin in the body and androgen in the testis. In addition, the psychological barrier of penis not lifting or lifting but not firm will also become the main factor causing ED. If not corrected in time, the degree of ED will become more and more severe. The effect of fatigue aggravating ED refers to the production of a large number of lipid peroxides called "fatigue substances" in the body due to fatigue, which can directly cause damage to the biological membrane, and cause irreversible pathological damage to the reproductive system for a long time, causing organic changes.
It can be seen that ED caused by chronic fatigue was often psychogenic in the early stage, and gradually transited to organic and permanent with the continuous accumulation of fatigue. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fatigue can damage the normal function of qi and blood in the viscera. "Long time walking hurts the tendons (liver), long time standing hurts the bones (kidney), long time looking hurts the blood (heart), and long time sitting hurts the flesh (spleen)", which makes the penis lose the nourishment of qi and blood and cannot play an effective erectile function.
