Who doesn’t want to enjoy sex? Or at least be able to have sex, right?

And when you go to the doc to get a drug that’s supposed to work…it doesn’t. That’s frustrating!

“What should I do?” You ask the doc on a return visit. “I don’t know, up the dose.” Is the response.

Not very helpful.

Don’t feel bad, a significant portion of people (approximately 30-35% of ED patients) are non-responders (R).

And not many people know of this trick I’m about to share with you.

Key point

Viagra non-responders typically have significantly lower levels of vitamin D than responders (R).

Vitamin D is very important for sexual function.

Vitamin D:

• Improves vascular health
• Reduces vascular oxidative stress and inflammation
• Prevents soft tissue and vascular calcification
• Enhances NO production and prevents its breakdown/oxidation
• Antagonizes the angiotensin-renin-aldosterone system, thus preventing high blood pressure and arterial calcification
• Increases dopamine
• Increases testosterone and the testosterone to estrogen ratio
• Improves insulin sensitivity (diabetics have a much higher risk of ED)
• And much more.

If you want to dive more into the detail (which I recommend you do), check out this article: Get your penis to work with this big, bad steroid

If your penor is calcified and blood can’t enter effectively or be retained effectively, you’re going to have problems. Most ED problems are vascular-related, and vitamin D is super important for the vascular system. You can almost say it’s the missing link. Diet needs to be addressed as well ofc.

As a bonus aside, another reason why viagra works for some people is because it increases DHEA-S (R); the storage form of the adrenal steroid DHEA. DHEA is helpful against aging, autoimmune disease, cancer, depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, etc.

Practical takeaway

If you don’t respond to Viagra or other PDEi, up your vitamin D and DHEA.

Aim for 50ng/ml vitamin D and >350µg/dL DHEA.

I always recommend sun over supplementation, but if you don’t have sun available, then there are other options. Such as tanning beds, UV lights and supplements.

Dosing:

• 5000-10,000IU vitamin D daily (untill levels are desirable)
• 25mg DHEA daily until levels are desirable, then scale it down to 5-10mg daily.

Get my guide on how to optimize vitamin D levels (and also how to never scorch again) here.