After a long day at work, sometimes the best solution is to plop down in your favorite chair, throw up your feet, and enjoy a frosty beer. Other times, after plodding through a long weekend, it’s perfectly understandable to want to go out with friends and have a drink or four. Drinking can be a stress reliever, it can be a social activity, but if done too much, it can also spell trouble for your erection.
Like all good things in life, consuming alcohol should be done in moderation. But an overreliance on booze can lead to issues within the sheets. While men have certainly heard of temporary erectile issues developing from having one too many to drink, consistently drinking too much can move that ED from “temporary” to “permanent.”
This is due to the fact that constant drinking reeks havoc on your liver. The liver is a power organ within the body, playing a vital role in the metabolic process of the body. This means the liver helps to regulate blood clotting, along with being responsible for getting rid of old or damaged blood cells to clear the way for new, healthy cells.
But when damaged by alcohol, the liver’s functions go into flux, which negatively affects the blood cells of the body, allowing damaged blood cells to hang around and impede the flow of blood. Additionally, a damaged liver can lead to hormone distribution within the body getting thrown into whack. These hormones help to alert the brain when its time to put the sexual organs to work, and when they are affected, the brain ends up not getting the proper signals, leading to missed erections.
This isn’t an issue that only a small amount of heavy drinkers suffer from, either. Surveys have found that alcohol dependent men have a 60 to 70 percent chance of suffering from sexual issues.
Either cut down or the drinking or cut out the drinking all together, and your sexual prowess should recover. But depending upon alcohol will only lead to issues down the line.