Causes For Erectile Dysfunction

The top causes for erectile dysfunction are those that remind you of the need to bring your body to a doctor for a regular checkup from time to time. Erectile dysfunction is just nature's way of telling you that you need to do everything in your power—natural and artificial—to get your lost man-pride back! Enduring erectile dysfunction is no way to go through life since a man's sense of self-worth is in part built not just on penis size, but also on how powerful and long-lasting his erection is.

1. Vascular Diseases. The top cause for erectile dysfunction is vascular diseases as they are responsible for a huge chunk—approximately 50 percent to 60 percent of all unhappy cases of impotence—of erectile dysfunction cases. What occurs in vascular diseases is that your arteries both narrow and harden, which results in the loss of fluid and efficient blood flow. Now if you've taken even third grade biology, you know that to maintain a nice, healthy, manly sized erection, you need a lot of blood flowing at a rapid speed to your penis, or else impotence will occur.
2. Neurological Conditions. Another common cause of erectile dysfunction is neurological conditions because they will disrupt the successful transfer of nerve pulses from your brain all the way to your penis. Just view things this way: Let's say you see a fantastically beautiful woman, and, only naturally because you are a heterosexual man who is red-blooded and in the prime of his life, you feel like demonstrating your feelings of attraction in the form of physical affection (assuming she says it's okay, of course). One way of this manifesting itself is by you getting an involuntary erection. Yet, if your neurological system has a condition, then those nerve impulses from your brain won't have the ability to travel all the way to your penis and then let you indulge in "happy" moments.
3. Psychological Factors. Let's say you, as a man, are somehow unlucky enough to be subjected to those pesky feelings of either stress, guilt, worry or anxiety. Well, if you are, then chances just might be that they carry over to your penis and, even worse, your penis' God-given right to naturally become hardened at the sight of a woman! Such psychological factors are also often secondary to good old physical reasons for the erectile dysfunction.