Can a common delicious candy enjoyed by millions of people everyday actually cause you to have a limp penis and poor erections? Shockingly, the answer is yes! In this article, I will expose the little-known dark secret of a sweet candy that so many people love. I will explain how a tasty sugar candy that you probably have eaten before horrified doctors who found that it can cause men to have weak erections and a soft penis.
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Before we start, all information in this video is for educational purpose only, not to be used as medical advice. If you are curious, please talk with your doctor to see if any information presented is suitable for your situation.
So what is this candy? Well, it’s a traditional sweet well loved since ancient times in Europe and the Middle East. Back then, it’s just a dried stick. You chew it, and it tastes so sugary. Traditionally in Northern European countries like the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland, they add salt to it to make a salty sweet candy drop.
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But nowadays, because it is natural and is 50 times sweeter than sugar, it’s very widely used all over the world in all kinds of candies and bottled drinks, and even on cigarettes too.
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Scientifically, it is known as Glycyrrhiza glabra.
(drawing provided by Kurt Stueber on Wikipedia)
You probably know it just as licorice.
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Some of you might say: what?? Are you making this up? How can a candy give you erectile dysfunction? Unfortunately, it’s proven by scientists to be true.
According to a 1999 research experiment published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of men aged 22 to 24 years old took 7 grams of a licorice candy everyday for 7 days. Their testosterone was measured before and after the 7 days. The researchers were shocked when the results came back. Before the experiment, the men’s testosterone was on average 740 ng/dl, but on day 7, it dropped to 484 ng/dl. That’s a drop of about 35%! That’s huge! In 2003, these same researchers re-did their study but with more men, and reported that the average decrease in testosterone after one week was 26%. Which is still a big drop!
Okay, some of you might still be skeptical, and might argue that these studies were done by just one group of researchers. What about other researchers? What do they say? Well, you got a point there. So I went and looked up what other medical researchers said. According to these experts from the department of endocrinology from King College Hospital in the UK, licorice has plant-like estrogen effects and also reduces testosterone levels.
And these Italian researchers in this medical article recommended that you take a lot of licorice in order to reduce your levels of testosterone and boost your body’s level of the female hormone estrogen. Well, their advice is for women, but you get the idea.
So you might ask: how exactly would licorice decrease testosterone that much? It turns out that the active ingredient in licorice is called glycyrrhizic acid, aka glycyrrhizin, which interferes with the enzymes in your body that convert other hormones to testosterone. To put in simple terms, it blocks your body from making testosterone. That’s why the testosterone level can become so low if you eat too much licorice for too long.
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So why then would a decrease in testosterone lead to erectile dysfunction? How does that work? The reason, according to many medical experts, is that a reduction in testosterone significantly lessens your sex drive and makes your penis not as sensitive. So you end up having sex just once a month or even once a year, because one: you don’t really feel like it, and two: your penis doesn’t get that much pleasure from sex anymore. You can’t fix this by taking viagra or cialis or other ED drugs because this type of erectile dysfunction has nothing to do with cardiovascular problems.
Low testosterone is a huge problem experienced by many middle aged and older men. Besides penis problems, your muscle volume also shrinks, and you find that you don’t have the strength or endurance to enjoy a lot of physical activities. Even for younger men, if their testosterone levels plunge too much, it can really wreck their sex life.
But don’t panick just yet! You don’t know if you really have low testosterone until you go and see a doctor and get a blood test.
So what can you do to prevent this problem? Well, the obvious thing to do is to avoid eating candy that contains licorice! It’s not just candy though. Lots of sweet bottled drinks contain licorice. They also put it on some cigarettes too by the way. You should pay attention to the ingredient label on the packaging. Of course, the level of licorice in these products will vary, so some of them will not contain a lot of licorice. You will have to judge for yourself.
Also, the good thing is that there are medical and non-medical ways to fix this problem. For medical solutions, please stay tuned because we will talk more about it in future episodes. But if you want to know more about non-medical testosterone boosters right now, I already did a video on it, so if you are interested please see my article on: 4 scientifically proven ways on how to increase testosterone naturally.
I hope you guys found this article to be educational and interesting.
Thanks for reading! See you next time.
Disclaimer: All content is educational in purpose, not to be used as medical advice. Please consult your doctor for medical advice. Ask your doctor whether any presented information applies to your situation. Video clips, images, and music courtesy of creators on Pexels, Freepik, and Pixabay. All characters in images and videos are of actors for illustrative purpose only.
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