Hey, guys, I'm new to this site, but I'm feeling the need to share: a few years back I experienced a prolonged episode of ED. I had just met the love of my life, and consummating that love just wasn't happening. Having a natural aversion to chemicals and pills in general -- can't explain it, just the thought makes me nauseous even typing it right now -- Viagra, etc. wasn't an option.
So I took a different route.
Having long been interested in holistic medicine and the mind body connection, I came to the conclusion that the natural intelligence of my body was trying to communicate something to me. But what was it communicating? Thankfully, I had been practicing yoga for years and the woman I'd fallen in love with was an Ayurvedic Practitioner and she explained the nature of chi (life force) to me and that the last line of our immune defense lives in our semen. Could it be, I thought, that my body was actually doing exactly what it was supposed to? So I spent the next year, I know, not exactly a quick fix, examining my mind, body and spirit.
Thinking of myself as a pretty healthy guy, I was shocked to find that my diet was entirely wrong for my body type (I had been an uneducated vegetarian), way low in testosterone producing foods, way high in estrogen producing foods like soy (bars, cookies, sauce, protein powder). Evidence of this was the growing fatty layer beneath my pectorals, or man boobs. Got rid of the soy, man boobs disappeared. Sporadic erections began to appear but nothing consistent. I kept looking.
I found that I was eating too late in the morning, and not enough midday. I was essentially not feeding my life force and actually draining it to the point of depletion. And I began to realize that I had depleted my body so much, that it was, in fact, refusing to give up its last line of immune defense: my semen. I know this sounds crazy and will be met with much skepticism but it was true for me. I added much more fresh vegetables and lean meats to my diet. I had quit playing sports like basketball, which I thoroughly enjoy and get the blood circulating (Hurray for circulation!). I started playing in a regular game -- and laughing more while was playing. Laughter being key. I hadn't been sleeping well and too little. Having learned that the hours between 10pm - 12pm are the key hours of regeneration for our bodies I started making 10pm my bedtime. More erections but still not 100%. I had to look deeper.
I finally realized that my spirit was broken. I had never met much success as a writer, financial or otherwise, and was feeling impotent as a man -- especially as I crossed into the land of 40-something. I was engaged in relationships -- past and present, friendships, family, all of it -- that were unsatisfying and toxic. I was basically depleted on all fronts. I cut loose many of those relationships. I decided that writing would be my hobby and something I would do for fun. I got a real job -- and starting making enough to pay more than the rent. I slept more, ate well, meditated, and pursued an emotionally intimate relationship with the same woman (god bless her for sticking with me) that wasn't just about sex (the previous pattern for my entire adult dating life).
And after about a year of examining and exploring and adjusting, my erections finally became consistent and are to this day. We eventually married and have a beautiful little girl. But, there are times when I feel myself depleting, the warning signals are all there, and now instead of cursing them, I honor them immediately. In fact, I look at my penis as the bellweather of my health on all fronts, mind, body, and spirit. And I'm grateful now, instead of ashamed, when it warns me with the mother o
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