Ever wonder why you're doing everything “right” but still not getting the results you want in the bedroom?

In this episode, we explore a surprising but powerful connection between your gut health and your ability to perform in the bedroom. You’ll get a sneak peek into how fixing your gut could be the first step toward fixing your erection, naturally, effectively, and without relying solely on medication.

Curious? Press play now and find out what your gut’s been trying to tell you all along.

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• Mediterranean Diet
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This podcast is for you, the Modern Man. I'm Dr Anne Truong,

your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and best

selling author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll

do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how

it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get

started, and be sure to visit my website at

sexualhealthformenpodcast.com for more information and

resources from the show. See you on the inside.

Hello there, Modern Man. Do you know that your gut isn't just

digesting your breakfast? It's literally controlling whether

you get hard or not, and most men have no idea this is

happening. In this video, I'm breaking down the signs of why

your gut is more important to your erection than you think,

and I'm showing you exactly what you need to do about it. So stay

until the end.

Hey there. I'm Dr Anne Truong. I've treated over 7000 men with

ED. What I have learned in treating so many men, especially

my patients, is that what you eat, it really affect your gut.

Your gut is your intestine, and how it will affect your

erection. And I'm going to talk about it, so let's dive into it.

So your gut bacteria are directly controlling your

erection. Here's the thing. Inside your gut, there are

trillion, I'm talking not a billion, trillion, with a T, of

bacteria living. They're talking, there are trillions of

bacteria living. It's about approximately 37 trillion

microorganisms. These aren't just guests taking up space.

They're producing chemicals controlling your hormones, and

they're regulating inflammation and dictating where the blood

flow can come to your penis during arousal. Yes, your

bacteria can determine the blood flow to your penis. Think of

your gut as the operating system of the sexual health and your

penis. That's just the application running on that

operating system. So when your gut bacteria is out of balance,

which is called dysbiosis, everything downstream suffers.

Alright?

So here's what happened when you have a healthy gut. So what is a

healthy gut? Well, a healthy gut supports nitric oxide pathway.

So let's talk about nitric oxide production. Your gut bacteria

produce something called nitric oxide. And nitric oxide is

literally the chemical that makes the penis hard. It's the

same chemical that Viagra and Cialis are designed to preserve.

Here's how it works. When you eat leafy green vegetables, like

spinach, kale, arugula, or use my nitric oxide capsule here.

You can get this at EDNoMore.com. So the the

vegetables and the nitric oxide contain nitrate, right? Nitrate.

So your bacteria and gut bacteria convert those nitrate

into nitrite. Then when your blood flow to your penis

increase during arousal that nitrite becomes bioavailable

nitric oxide. So hold on a little bit. I know I got a

little nerdy there, a little bit. So all you need to know is

that nitric oxide, boom, erection. But what if your gut

bacteria is compromised? So this conversion doesn't happen

efficiently, so you could be eating the right food and still

not getting the sexual performance you want, because

the bacteria in your gut can't process those nutrients. Okay?

So remember, nitrate become nitrite, become nitric oxide,

all right.

So, next, second mechanism, let's talk about short-chain

fatty acid. This is where it gets really interesting. When

Men, struggling to stay hard? Most of the time it comes down

you eat like fiber, all right, the bacteria ferment that fiber

and produce compound that's called short-chain fatty acid,

which is called butyrate, acetate and propionate. Okay.

These fatty acids do three critical things for erection.

to poor blood flow. That's why I put together the Good Morning

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ED.

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Their bodies aren't recycling testosterone efficiently,

testosterone being lost in the stool instead of being

reabsorbed and reused. So you could have a perfectly normal

testosterone production, but if your gut bacteria can't process

or you don't have certain strain, then you become

testosterone deficient. All right.

So what happens when your gut deteriorate? Well, here's that's

what happened is that your erection is compromised. So when

you have dysbiosis, which means the imbalance of the gut

bacteria, several things happen in rapid succession. First, your

intestine barrier degrade. The scientist called leaky gut. Your

gut lining is supposed to be selective about what gets into

your bloodstream. But when it's compromised, the bacteria

component called LPS leak through. So the immune system

sees this invasion and launch an inflammation response, which is

not good for your blood flow. So this chronic low grade

inflammation damage your blood vessels, which then damage the

penis muscle, and that is not good. No erection. Then ED

happened. So let's kind of break this down about a metabolite

called TMAO, and why certain bacteria break down red meat and

other animal products, and they produce TMAO, right? TMAO does

three things. One, it's bad for blood flow, it increases

oxidative stress and inflammation. And number three,

it reduces your nitric oxide availability. So what it means

is that if you eat a lot of processed food, right? Food that

is in a can or a bag, and red meat with dysbiotic gut, you

actually tend to have high level of TMAO.

Okay, let's talk about the psychological component. Now

there's another layer to this that most people miss, the gut

and the brain access. Your gut bacteria directly communicate

with your brain through the vagus nerve. And they do this by

producing nerve transmitters. So 90% of your body, serotonin is

produced in your gut. Serotonin is the "feel me good hormone"

right? Not in your brain, it's in your gut. So when you have

dysbiosis or imbalance, you're not producing enough serotonin,

low serotonin, depression, anxiety, low libido. And

psychological ED is real. It's not in your head. It's actually

in your gut. So additionally, the imbalance in your gut

activate what we call HPA Axis your stress response. So

cortisol goes up. Elevated cortisol suppresses sexual

function. So you're not just dealing with what's the vascular

problem? You're dealing with a neurochemical problem that

originate in your gut. I know that's a lot to talk about, and

it's kind of little geeky, but let me show you what the

research actually say in 2023 a systemic review analyzing 12

trial found that probiotic intervention significantly

improves sexual function score in women and also in men. But

here's what's important, this same mechanism applied to men.

The study shows that using a fecal microbiota transplantation

in rats shows something fascinating. When researcher

transplanted the gut bacteria from rat on a high fat diet into

healthy rat. Recipient rat develop ED. So when they

transplanted the bacteria from healthy rat into unhealthy rat,

the erection improved. So this proves that the gut bacteria are

literally contributing to your erection function, alright? So

you have bacteria imbalance, then it will contribute to ED.

If you have bacteria balance, then it will help better

erection function. So that's something to take away from

this. That means that if you have ED, your gut is probably

compromised. It may not be the only problem, but it's

definitely part of the problem.

So what actually ruined your gut microbiome? Well, here's the hit

list.

Okay, modern man. If you're struggling with weak erection,

low energy, the food you eat could be the big part of the

problem. One of the best research pathways to boost

circulation, support healthy testosterone and improve sexual

performance is the Mediterranean diet. It's packed with food that

open up your blood vessel, lower inflammation, and fuel your

hormone, naturally. I've seen men notice real improvement in

both energy and erection within weeks when they shift to this

style of eating. So check out the Mediterranean diet link

right here below, and get that as soon as you can. Stronger

testosterone and better erection.

Number one, ultra processed food, like seed oil, refined

carbohydrate, artificial sweeteners. These literally

select for pathogenic bacteria, and they're feeding the bad

bacteria. Don't eat it. Number two, antibiotics. I know, I know

sometimes you need them, but they nuke your entire bacteria

system. It will take months to recover, and some bacteria never

come back. Number three, chronic stress. Stress hormone directly

suppresses the beneficial bacteria. Number four, not

enough fiber. Fiber is what your bacteria eat. So no fiber, no

short chain fatty acid production, no protection.

Number five, is excessive alcohol. Number six, sedentary

lifestyle. Exercises increased bacteria diversity. Not moving,

decreasing it.

So here's the thing, most men with ED are checking multiple

boxes on this list. They're eating processed food, they're

sedentary, they're stressed, and they haven't given their gut any

consideration whatsoever. Or you may not know, right? That's why

you watch this channel. But the good part is, I'm going to show

you how to fix your gut and your erection. Are you guys ready?

Here we go. Strategy number one, dietary changing. All right, so

here's what you actually need to do about this. Number one,

increase your fiber. All right, I want you eating 30 to 40 grams

of fiber daily. Not from supplement but from whole foods

such as vegetable, legume, whole grain. Follow the Mediterranean

diet. This feed beneficial bacteria and increases

short-chain fatty acid. So you go check this link right here

for the Mediterranean diet. All right, if you kind of eat the

food you want to focus on leafy greens, spinach, kale, arugula,

or try to take our nitric oxide supplement. You want lentil

bean, chickpea. You want whole grains such as Oat, barley,

brown rice, and you want broccoli and cabbage. Number

two, eat fermented food. So add this to your diet, high quality

yogurt with live cultures, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, miso,

tempeh. So these provide beneficial bacteria that you can

directly eat, and it will populate your gut. Number three,

eliminate the destroyers, cut out ultra processed food as much

as possible. Reduce seed oil consumption, minimize your

carbohydrate or the sweet, the pastries, and if you consume

alcohol to keep it under 14, drinks a week number four, add

resistant starch. What that mean is that cook past the rice or

potatoes and let them cool. When they cool, the starch convert to

a form that is resistant to digestion, so that your bacteria

will ferment to producing butyrate. So if you implement

this right now, starting tomorrow, one change you will

increase. If you increase your fiber content by 10 gram, eat

one medium apple or servings of legume, do that for a week. And

then you start adding fermented food, all right? And then you

start eliminating processed food category, boom, I will bet you

your erection will get better, or you'll be noticing better

morning wood. Now you could take probiotic as well. So this is

where most men get confused, because there are thousands of

gram. Here's what the research shows, what work for sexual

function. Specifically you want lactobacillus acidophilus,

lactobacillus plantarium, bifidobacterium longum and

bifidobacterium bifidum. So these strains have been shown

and studied to improve sexual function, increase testosterone,

reduce inflammation. But this is important, a good probiotic

needs multiple strain, not just one, at least 10 to 50 billion

CFU per dose, and make sure that it has shelf stability and that

it's been tested. Okay. So don't just grab whatever cheapest on

Amazon. Quality matters here. You can check out our store. We

have a probiotic that we recommend that has this in

there. Justt go to our store at EDNoMore.com.

So in a 2025 systemic review, found that combining probiotic

with dietary changes produce significant better result than

either one alone. So my recommendation is this, start

with dietary changes that I show you first, after about four to

six weeks, you're not seeing improvement, add a high quality,

multi strain probiotic. So this is another pro tip. Take your

probiotic with a prebiotic, something that feed the

beneficial bacteria, like inulin and FOS or plain old fiber works

great. Now, don't forget lifestyle optimization, right?

You want to be able to exercise 30 minutes four times a week,

sleep at least seven hours at night time and decrease your

stress with either box breathing or with meditation. Drink plenty

of water. Normally, drink two thirds of your weight in ounces

of water and avoid antibiotic, if you can. And so the most

important thing, guys is that do one thing at a time. All right.

So if you start doing this, you're gonna start seeing your

gut will start shifting, and you will actually improve your

erection within about four to six weeks. And what you're going

to notice is you're going to have better digestion, better

mood, better sleep, less anxiety as well, better focus and

definitely better erection as well. So you're really treating

the root cause of the problem and it will be easier for you to

get erection as well, improve libido, improve sensitivity, and

you're going to see major changes at around three to six

months. So the key is to be consistent and keep going at it.

Alright?

So here's what I want you to take away from this. It's a lot,

I know, because I'm just so excited about this. The ED isn't

just a penis problem. It's not just a heart problem. It's also

a gut health problem as well. So most men treating ED are

focusing on like the symptom, like taking Viagra, right? But

those things have their place, but they're not addressing the

root cause of the problem. Your gut bacteria is supporting your

erection or even destroying it. There's no middle ground. But

the good news is, I just show you steps on how you can fix

this. It's not complicated. Eat more fiber, add more fermented

food, manage your stress, move more and eat a Mediterranean

diet, right? And then consider a high quality probiotic. So start

with your diet first. Nothing works better than diet and

exercise at this time. So let me know how you enjoyed this

episode. I know that is a lot of information, and I hope that you

listen to this again, and I love to hear from you, and if you

start to do any of these strategies and see how it's

going be consistent, be patient.

And just know that we're giving you strategies on how to beat ED

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the next episode.

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