Heart-Healthy Tips to Prevent or Manage Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a great example of how different parts of your body work together and affect each other. Issues with your heart or blood vessels may affect your ability to get or maintain an erection for sex.

In this video, learn about heart-healthy lifestyle changes that may help support your sexual health, according to Joseph Alukal, MD, Urologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

You can read more here about the link between ED and heart disease.

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