after prostatectomy or removal of the prostate erectile dysfunction is inevitable if you don't
take immediate reaction and it shouldn't come as a surprise to you but the prostate is intricately
involved in the erectile process now as a matter of fact it is a huge part of stiffness rigidity
and that Lock and Load phase right so when the prostate is in trouble imagine a slingshot without
elasticity now it's believed that about 70 percent of men who have BPH or an enlarged prostate will
have Ed so if you have issues with the prostate you're more likely to have low libido trouble
getting hard and lower sexual satisfaction now that's how important the prostate is that's
why I talk so much about it so I'm Dr Rachel Ross functional medicine doctor and my goal here is to
help you optimize without a bunch of prescription drugs now I help you focus on natural strategy to
help you biohack your body and the way that Edie sets in after prostatectomy or prostate removal or
prostate surgery is very similar to the way that Ed sets in whether it's age related or chronic
disease related erectile dysfunction so I'm going to take you and I'm going to show you today the
number one way to for you to combat age-related Ed and prostatectomy related Ed now I'm going to
show you the science behind why we think Ed sets in and how you can very easily without drugs or
medication fight against this natural Decline and improve oxygenation improve blood flow improve
stiffness and you're going to learn today how to kind of think a little bit outside the box
um and I promise you it'll be worth it because it may not be what you expect it's not going to be a
drug it's not going to be something that you need to take or that you need to get a prescription
for me for or that you need to DM me for you can start this actually today so that we can get that
blood flow moving again so what if I told you that there is this way to bring the blood flow back to
to help bring erectile function back to where it used to be now imagine getting this back getting
stiff again all without really needing to use drugs or without wondering whether you're going to
get one or not so I want to introduce you to two different cellular processes that you may or may
not have heard from right so the first one that I want to talk to you about is called apoptosis
now what apoptosis is is basically like throughout this whole erectile tissue we have what are called
tiny blood vessels within the corpora and so if you look here to this diagram over here what
you'll see is the Corpus cavernosum and the Corpus spongiosum embedded within the Corpus cavernosum
or what we call cavernosum cavernosum blood vessels and nerves and they are the most important
aspect of an erection and when we're talking about these two cellular processes that I'm going to go
through they actually act to destroy this tissue and remove the ability for you to expand and stay
harder the way that you used to so these tiny blood vessels and nerves the Corporal nerves
they are actually embedded within the tissues and so these this the so these Corporal nerves are
intricately wrapped around the prostate so some type of damage occurs to the prostate or surgery
occurs to the prostate or or even BPH those nerves can actually get damaged right so imagine a ball
with a cluster of nerves around it and then those those nerves actually start to penetrate through
to the erectile tissue those are your cavernosal nerves that those are the nerves that actually get
damaged when someone has a radical prostatectomy me whether they tried to spare the nerves or not
and also just in life as BPH starts to take take growth sometimes we see these nerves
getting damaged now as the cells from the nerve start to get damaged and this happens too are
all ourselves can actually get damaged and that's a natural part of life right we we go out there's
some toxins our cells get damaged but our body is supposed to be designed to combat that damage
slow that damage down and to repair the process what happens in when the prostate is in trouble
like this and cell death is happening is that the cell death is happening at a rate that's
not conducive to survival and thriving of the this tissue that ultimately becomes so important right
so as the nerves from this tissue start to die off their ability to control and Signal those arteries
to relax and bring blood flow in becomes impaired as well so we've got impaired nerves we've got
impaired blood vessels and the interesting thing is that as you age or after an injury and or
certainly after radical prostatectomy your body starts to experience this death right the cell
death and what we want to happen is we want those cells to be repaired and because if not you have a
reduction in the smooth muscle and the blood cells start to have trouble moving blood flow through so
you have decreased stiffness and decreased blood flow now let me just tell you that cell death is
actually a normal part of life it's something that we call apoptosis you need cells to die and turn
over and new healthy cells to come right you want your body to say hey these are damaged cells let's
get some new ones in there um but unfortunately sometimes with with cell death or apoptosis this
cell death can actually be accelerated right and so just like anything that dies right if if you
have a a fish tank and all the fish die you got to clean it up right so what happens is then we
have something called autophagy and autophagy is basically your cell's way of kind of cleaning up
this process of cell death so the apop apoptosis is the cell death but autophagy actually kind of
controls you know it turns on Cell death and it can slow down cell death so autophagy is
also a really great thing you want yourselves to be able to do that but what we're finding
is in people who have radical prostatectomy or even the basic aging of life down there
what we actually find is that this process is happening too fast so the cells are dying off too
fast and auto the autophagy system the autophagy system is basically going um high speed and and
the turnover is too much so that's actually cell death is actually why you start to see
the shrinkage right this is actually why you start to notice that not only is it not working the way
you wanted to the tissue has actually atrophied so now accumulating evidence has indicated that this
apoptosis process especially that in the smooth muscle of cells of the Corpus cavernosum plays
a huge role in in that decrease in volume to the fact that the veins stop working and to erectile
dysfunction so what we want to do is we want to come up with the number one way that we can slow
this process down and reverse it we can actually program the cells to say hey you know what
let's slow this process down and let's be a little bit more strategic about which cells
die and which ones stay alive right so autophagy is the cleanup and the programming and apoptosis
is actually the cell death right so um you know and when we're just just to just to reiterate
this process is is part of what helps us prevent cancer apoptosis and autophagy but when it goes
wrong and when the programming isn't right that's when trouble starts to happen and when
it comes to erectile issues this is the main cause the underlying cause you know I always
talk about get to the underlying cause this is one of the under main underlying cause of not
just Ed that's related to the prostate but Ed that's related to trouble with the androgens or
the testosterone and Ed that's related to nerve and blood flow related issues scientists seem to
think that this is the number one process so in general mild autophagy protects cells from Death
whereas severe and Rapid autophagy always causes cell death so interestingly recently a a large
number of Studies have decided and determined that this is the number one cause of erectile
dysfunction in diabetes deteriorating age and testosterone deficiency so we know what the
problem is so now let's talk about the solution what can slow this down put the brakes on the
cell death and start to regenerate what can help reprogram this whole situation
pumping pumping pumping now pumping has been shown to help repair the cavernous nerves that have been
injured and help stop slow death and apoptosis yes all of that and instead it encourages what I call
slow autophagy well not the rapid kind so think of it kind of like a Pac-Man right so remember
Pac-Man he just gobbled up damaged cells that got in the way so we want to slow that process down
and help them slow down a little bit so that they can actually start to repair instead of destroy
now pumping actually uses negative pressure to increase the blood flow the arterial inflow into
the penile tissue and actually improve cavernosal blood flow so let's be clear let's go back to our
our picture here so many Studies have demonstrated that after radical prostatectomy there's
unavoidable nerve injury and pumping can actually help reverse that and bring cavernosal oxygenation
so bring oxygenation and blood flow to the to the area so what science thinks is that it exerts
its effect by a similar nitric oxide Cascade signaling pathway that cgmp pathway we talk
about when we're talking about the blue pill and it causes the corporals to relax and the nerves
to start to reprogram and regulate a variety of these activities so at the end of the day
the pumping can help improve blood flow help repair blood cells and early use of vacuum
therapy for radical prostatectomy has not only the potential to restore spontaneous erections
but it can also help you maintain the length and increase penile hardness what else could you ask
for and an increasing number of studies showed that vacuum therapy can preserve erectile function
preserve it and repair this process of Overexposed over zealous program death now when we talk about
pumping I actually have a couple favorite pumps and what we'll do over the next few
videos is I'll kind of review some of them for you so that you can see the differences between
them because honestly studies are indicating life is indicating when I work with gentlemen
one of the first things that we do is get a good quality pump is that it can restore things in a
way that just popping a pill cannot now there are some benefits to certain pills and certain Herbal
Remedies but when you invest in a quality pump for yourself you are actually taking it to the
tissue level if that makes any sense right you're going straight to the thing you're going straight
to the issue right it's kind of like going to the doctor you hurt your leg and you're trying
to figure out well why is the doctor asking me if I have a headache I promise you it's all
connected but if he didn't just focused on the leg questions you would have felt like it was a
more thorough examination just because maybe you don't see the connection there so there the the
pump gets you straight to the topic which is how can I repair this tissue that has been damaged
now when I talk about how to pick a quality pump or my favorite pump
my favorite pump is going to be the VaxAid because what I like about the vaccines is not just uses
air but it also uses water as a means to help in this Rehabilitation process and I find that
that even their studies indicate that when they survey patients after they've started using it
the patients and the partners seem to feel feel as though the side effect is an increase in size
so who wouldn't want that side effect but I also like about it because it it actually incorporates
the use of warm water and what warm water does even before you notice how sometimes if you get
a massage or if you go to physical therapy they put warm compresses warm moist compresses on the
area because it allows the tissue to stretch and accommodate more right well it's the same
with pumping I feel like with a hydro pump and of the VaxAid in particular you have the actual
opportunity to actually have warm water and air helping with this process so next week I'm going
to actually show you one of my favorite pumps that actually doesn't involve water too because I want
you to have a variety of different options but for those of you who are ready to just dive in
and to have a discreet version of it the vaxaid is is great for that and of course I have some
more videos on the vaccine below because I'm believe very strongly in this as part of the
rehabilitation process so at the end of the day the doctor may share with you something's going
on with your prostate or you may start to feel it you may have the symptoms or you may have
decreased ejaculate whatever the the process is um I feel as though if we could actually even
start guys earlier using the pump it would help prevent some long-term issues don't over pump
though so we'll talk about that on another time so like this video share this video and
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