Dessert_All_Day
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I also enjoy looking at this stuff from an evolutionary lens, but the argument that ED is always the last health condition to manifest itself just isn't what we see in the field. You can find guys on paleo / crossfit forums complaining about ED issues despite sporting 6 packs, full heads of hair, and strong athletic performance. I'm not in the NoFap camp, but from my quick perusing of the site, there seems to be a lot of young guys claiming that their health is pretty good other than the ED issues.
Six-packs, full heads of hair and strong athletic performance aren't nearly as good of indicators of health as many want to believe.
They're correlates, yes, but how often do you see these kinds of men in their 50s or 60s dying of heart attacks, cancer, or other diseases despite being "healthy?" It's disturbingly common.
This is the powerful illusion of correlation not equating to causation: every time someone really is astoundingly healthy they'll look astoundingly healthy. But many who look astoundingly healthy are actually in dismal health; there are tons of false positives.
Again, we're just talking about ED in outwardly healthy, 20-30 year olds. In this demographic, the minor issue seems to be low peripheral blood flow. Improved erection strength is one of the most common improvements seen on Ray Peat inspired protocols. Danny Roddy and Matt Stone (and people on this forum) have reported suffering significant ED issues when they were at low body temperatures. Low body temperatures obviously don't cause ED in everyone, but it is a relatively easily addressed factor affecting a lot of people.
Luckily, since reproduction is so important to evolution, ED seems to correct itself relatively quickly on Ray Peat inspired protocols /temperature resets. While it may take months to see noticeable improvements in hair or skin, erection strength seems to improve within a few weeks of people getting their temps up and improving their metabolisms.
The Ray Peat world is full of people who have improved their erection strength. How many people have seriously regrown hair?
I think I see where you're coming from now. Though I believe Roddy does claim to have regrown hair, but I could be wrong on that.