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Why Your Erection Fades (Even If It Starts Strong)
Episode 27520th May 2025 • Sexual Health For Men • Dr. Anne Truong
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What if the real reason you can’t stay hard has nothing to do with your age or your hormones?

In this podcast episode, you’ll discover the seven most overlooked factors that could be silently wrecking your ability to maintain an erection. From everyday habits to hidden health disruptors, even just fixing one of these could turn everything around.

Don’t miss this eye-opening breakdown, your confidence and performance might depend on it. Tune in now before you make another move.

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

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

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

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do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how

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

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started, and be sure to visit my website at

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sexualhealthformenpodcast.com for more information and

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resources from the show. See you on the inside.

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Hello there, Modern Man. In this episode, we're going to talk

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about why your erection leave you when you have no trouble

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getting an erection initially. I hear this a lot, where "I don't

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have any problem getting an erection, but I have a hard

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problem maintaining the erection to finish, or maintaining

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firmness." We're going to go into the top seven reason why

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you have problem maintaining your erection and your erection

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leave you. I'm Dr. Anne Truong, stay tuned. You'll be surprised

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what number seven is.

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So number one is smoking. Why smoking is bad? That's including

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vaping as well too. The reason why smoking is bad because it's

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inflammatory. It affects your blood flow, because what it does

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is that it decreases blood flow down below in order for it to

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get a firm erection. That's number one.

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Number two is alcohol. Drinking more than about 14 drinks a

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week. Because alcohol, again, is inflammatory. Your body consider

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that as foreign. So what it does is that it decreases blood flow

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to where you need it the most, when you need it the most.

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Number three is what you eat. That is probably the number one

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factor affecting your erection, is what you put in here. So I

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always tell my patient, follow the Mediterranean diet. What

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that is, it's eating the food that Mother Earth gave you. Eat

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what the earth grow for you. Lean meat, chicken, fish. You

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can do red meat, but probably not every day. Maybe twice a

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week or three times a week. But eat what the earth gave you.

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Don't eat anything in a bag or box or a can. Focus more on

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whole food. Focus more on vegetables and fruit. What the

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bad stuff is that donut baked goods, fried food and sweets,

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and anything that has a lot of sugar and fat at the same time,

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the worst. So a Mediterranean diet, check out the link right

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here. I give you information on what to eat for the

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Mediterranean diet, it laid out what to eat every day.

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Number four is lack of exercise. You know when I mean exercise?

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I'm not telling you run a marathon or try to do hard

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exercise. Even just walking 30 minutes a day is exercise or

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even walking up and down the stairs is exercise. Even doing

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housework is exercise. And your wife's gonna like this, doing

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yard work is also exercise as well too. As long as you're

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moving it is exercise. We should do that around 30 minutes, about

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three to four times a week is optimal. And you want to get

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your heart rate up to a point that is hard for you to count to

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10 easily. So moderate level of exercise. But you can do biking.

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You can do swimming, walking, even weight training. The prefer

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exercise is high intensity interval exercise, or HIIT

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exercise, where you do a fast exercise for like a minute, and

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then rest a minute and do fast exercise for a minute, and you

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do it for about 20 to 30 minutes. But that's not for

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everybody. I get it. The best form of exercise is walking.

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It's outside. You enjoy the fresh air. It relaxes you as

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well.

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Number five is common medication that you take actually will

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decrease your erection. Such as your blood pressure medication,

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can affect your erection. Your antidepressant medication, as

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well as your diuretics that you take. Again, diuretics are the

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water pill that you take for your blood pressure medicine.

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Now I'm not saying stop your medication at all. I'm just

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saying these medications can counteract the erection and that

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you should talk with your doctor about your medication. So do not

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stop your medication. However, you can counteract that by

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exercising, by changing what you eat, by stopping smoking and

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limiting your alcohol. So that way you can take the medication

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but it will not affect your erection.

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Okay, Modern Man, you are not alone and you don't have to

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suffer anymore. ED can feel isolating, frustrating, and even

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defeating. The endless guessing, the quiet shame, the weight of

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not feeling like yourself is exhausting. But here's the

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truth, you are not broken. You are not alone. You don't have to

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figure this out alone anymore. The Get Wood Now Boost Program

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is your step by step, path to sexual confidence and

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restoration. No more suffering in silence, no more trial and

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error, just real solution, real result and the confidence you

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deserve. It's time to take back your power on your term. Let's

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get this journey started together. Check out the course

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at getwoodnow.com. I'll see you there.

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Number six is sleep. Getting inadequate sleep. You should

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sleep seven hours at nighttime is most optimal and good sleep.

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You want to have sleep that put your rapid eye movement or REM

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sleep. Because when you have REM sleep, it's when your

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testosterone are being made, and when you have REM sleep is when

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your mind and body are truly relaxed. REM sleep is when you

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dream. It's when you dream you know that you have good REM

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sleep. So get adequate sleep because that's how you heal, and

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that's how you make more testosterone, and that's how

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your mind is more relaxed. And in fact, when you have REM

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sleep, you also have a morning wood or nighttime wood, because

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that happens during REM sleep. Because your REM sleep is when

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your testosterone is made, and that's why, in the morning,

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between five to seven, your testosterone level is at its

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highest, and that when it coincide with you having morning

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wood.

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So that lead us to number seven, porn. If you're watching porn,

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porn is more easily accessible now than ever, so when you're

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watching porn, it messes up with how arousal is processed in your

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brain. It messes up with how you release dopamine, dopamine is

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the feel me good hormone that gets released when you get

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aroused. That's when you get released when you have an orgasm

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and ejaculation, and that gets messed up, therefore the

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processing of arousal is disrupted. That's how porn

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affect your erection, where you can get an erection watching

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porn, but you can sometimes struggle with getting erection

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with a partner.

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So those are the top seven reasons why your erection leave

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you when you need it the most. And if you just make a little

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tweak, maybe one out of seven, maybe moderate your alcohol and

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drinking less, or maybe thinking about eating less processed

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food, less sugary food, and less fatty food, that will also help.

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I'm not saying do all seven at the same time, but maybe start

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with one for a few months, and then get your blood work

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checked, because if you change your diet, you can definitely

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see if your blood sugar is improved. You can see if your

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cholesterol is improved. And if you sleep better, you will

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notice more frequent morning wood, more peaceful. You know,

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when you wake up in the morning and porn is either yes or no.

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It's like you can't just watch a little bit of porn and be okay.

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You've got to stop. It's no in between there as well. So

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imagine you do all seven at the same time, it will accumulate,

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and you'll be surprised what a difference it will make for your

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erection. I would do all this first and get your blood work

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done and check your testosterone level before you take an ED

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medication, because you will be surprised that making one trick

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will create a great erection.

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see you next episode.

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Okay, Modern Man, you are not alone and you don't have to

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suffer anymore. ED can feel isolating, frustrating, and even

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defeating. The endless guessing, the quiet shame, the weight of

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not feeling like yourself is exhausting. But here's the

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truth, you are not broken. You are not alone. You don't have to

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figure this out alone anymore. The Get Wood Now Boost Program

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is your step by step, path to sexual confidence and

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restoration. No more suffering in silence, no more trial and

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error, just real solution, real result and the confidence you

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deserve. It's time to take back your power on your term. Let's

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get this journey started together. Check out the course

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at getwoodnow.com. I'll see you there.

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