After discussing the blindness risk, the FDA has decided to caution from the potential risk of sudden hearing loss and even brief amnesia associated with drugs like Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra. I would like to suggest a simple explanation to why do we prefer not to see or not to hear when we use those beneficiary drugs un-smartly.
Recently I have published an article suggesting that an intercellular communication network coordinates the various bodily functions. Radical gases like nitric oxide (NO) are signals in this net and its usability affects health and indicates wellness.
From this netting point of view, stress is the sense of flow interruption or blockage of the information stream. Such flow interruption affects also physiological functions and can explain the association between stress and many ailments.
Data were presented to demonstrate that NO can be a potential stimulus in such nets and explain its multi-factorial role in health.
It was suggested that netting is a prerequisite route of wellness, enabling bodily autonomous managerial decisions.
This vital diffusive NO network is extremely labile and potentially could contain the interplay of consciousness and unconsciousness. It may be effected by increasing the signals, e.g. via drugs like Viagra or by reducing the noise via activities such as yoga or guided imagery
Viagra can enhance the NO resultant cGMP by lowering its breakup rate and indeed was associated not only with better male sexuality but also with improved heart functions, urinary tract symptoms, pulmonary hypertension, jet leg and more…
So where is the pitfall? Internal information crisis…
As Linda Stone stated we are facing wealth of opportunities, as we are not willing to give some of it up, we are in a permanent crisis.
Viagra indeed can help us in dealing with so much data, by increasing the signal over the noise. However, if we abuse its use by trying to process with it, more and more information, we could "bombard" our inner communication system which would collapse and with no other vent, would try to block further data entry. More is not necessarily better; even the cellular phone use, meant to improve family communication, is associated with increased family distress.
Our two major bodily data admission routes are seeing and hearing and these are the two reported dangers of Viagra - blindness and hearing loss. Ponder on what do we do when we are tired from our daily duties, we want to close our eyes in a quiet place...seeing and hearing... or even forget (transient amnesia)...
What can be done? letting go...
I love to mention the Chinese philosopher Lau-Tsu, who wrote in The Tao te Ching, more than two thousands years ago, that the world is ruled by letting things take their course, and cannot be controlled through interference…
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Funnily enough, a lot of pre-Viagra young men have lost their eyesight...
The Viagra blindness/hearing controversy is similar to an experience working with COX-2 inhibitors, where the latter shows great efficacy for arthritis (RA) but within that same vein, COX-2 inhibition can predispose those so inclined (ususlly cardiovascular disease, NIDDM, hypertension) to bleeding events leading to stroke, hence TXB2 (thromboxin B2) as surveillance.
Even in the pre-Viagra period, too much 'seed spilling' has been associated with blindness!
The background of this folk theme has been repeated in many cultures so it would be interesting to look at how it came up to be developed in those who lacked a modern medico-scientific base.
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