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Lifestyle Changes, Erectile Dysfunction, and Female Sexual Dysfunction: Heart Health and Sexual Health

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State-of-the-art guidelines for sexual health or erectile dysfunction (ED) and female sexual dysfunction (FSD) provide extensive overviews of conventional prescription and other extrinsic treatment options. Yet, over the past 10–20 years, a plethora of international research has established that individual and comprehensive lifestyle changes can prevent and potentially improve ED and FSD, or at least some aspect of these conditions. In this chapter, there will be a comprehensive review of heart-healthy and heart-unhealthy risk factors for ED and FSD and a review of individual and synergistic lifestyle changes that have been shown to prevent or ameliorate ED and FSD in specific populations of men and women. The FSD research lags far behind ED research in terms of positive lifestyle interventions studied, but the preliminary data thus far suggest that lifestyle changes can have a profound impact that could improve FSD to a slightly smaller or even similar extent, in some cases, to what has been observed in men with ED. Regardless, a lifestyle program that has the potential to improve heart health, reduce all-cause morbidity and mortality, and still improve ED and FSD is plausible. This should be reiterated in the clinical setting with patients and should be a part of primary care and medical specialty treatment guidelines for ED and FSD. Ignoring the consistent, and ample, positive data on lifestyle and other options in ED and FSD is tantamount to ignoring diet and lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of or ameliorate cardiovascular disease.

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