Your body may be sending you a warning long before serious health problems appear.

In this episode, discover why losing your morning wood or experiencing erectile dysfunction may have far more to do with your heart than your bedroom. Learn the medical tests that can uncover hidden conditions, the lifestyle habits that can restore your health, and why early action matters more than you might think. Small changes today could make a lasting difference for both your confidence and your future well-being.

Tune in now to learn how understanding erectile dysfunction could help protect your health for years to come.

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Key Takeaways

• Erectile dysfunction may be an early sign of heart disease.
• Morning wood loss should never be ignored.
• Blood tests can uncover hidden health conditions.
• Testosterone affects sexual health but is not the only cause of ED.
• Diabetes and high cholesterol commonly contribute to ED.
• The Mediterranean diet supports healthy blood flow.
• Regular exercise improves erectile function and heart health.
• Quality sleep helps maintain healthy testosterone levels.
• Lifestyle changes can reverse many causes of ED.
• Early treatment protects both sexual and cardiovascular health.

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Resources mentioned:

• Modern Man Crib
• Mediterranean Diet
• Good Morning Wood Smoothie
• Renew with Dr. Anne

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If you've stopped waking up with morning wood, or you're noticing

an unusual softness down there, ignoring it could be the most

dangerous thing you do for your heart. We're tackling a viewer's

question about these exact symptoms, and here is the hard

erectile dysfunction isn't just a bedroom problem, it

is often a massive flashing red light for hidden issues like

diabetes, high cholesterol, and future heart attacks. Today, I

am breaking down the specific blood test your urologist needs

to run right now, the exact lifestyle changes that fix the

root cause, and the daily physical routines, including

testicle massages and penis pumps, that will help you

restore your health and your confidence. Let's dive in.

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, Doctor. I haven't had morning wood, and my penis and

testicles always feel soft. What does that mean in general? I'm

56 years old. Do I have to see a urologist to get my testosterone

looked at?" Well, the short answer to that, yes. If you are

noticing that things are not well down there, you definitely

need to go see a urologist or sexual health specialist doctor

on getting blood work. Every man, guys over 40, get your

blood work done. I can't tell you how many times I see men

with ED and they don't know that they even have diabetes, or they

don't know that they have high cholesterol. All those

conditions can add to your ED condition. Okay, so if you're

over 40, please go get blood work, because if you have

undiagnosed blood sugar or undiagnosed high cholesterol,

it's really on you. Because it can be reversed. You need to get

blood work done. So yes, get your blood work done. Make sure

you get your testosterone level check, total testosterone, free

testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin, and get that

checked, along with the blood sugar, cholesterol, liver

function test, kidney function test. So those are the main

things.

If you haven't had morning wood, and I don't know what you mean,

my penis and testicle feel soft. I don't know what that means

compared to it was before. If the testicles are different

texture, softer than it was before, little firm, kind of

like an egg texture, and you definitely need to go see a

urologist to get an ultrasound check. Don't ignore it, guys.

Know your body and be attuned to your body, because if you feel

that your testicle is softer than it was before, get it

checked out. Okay, we are living in 2026 we're not living in

1906. So get it checked out. There are tests that can be done

easily that can look at view an image of the testicles, even the

penis, and everything to see if something's wrong with it.

Sometimes it could be cancer, it could be cyst, so it could be

several things. You need to get that check out. And sometimes it

could even be testicles, prodigation, where the testicles

are kind of shrinking and dying away. Then you need to get that

evaluated. Okay? And penis as well. If you feel it more soft,

is it because it's soft, because it had low testosterone. Because

when testosterone level is low, it will affect the size of the

penis, as well as your reaction, because the penis muscle depend

upon testosterone. It has a lot of testosterone receptor in the

penis, and when testosterone levels low in your blood, it's

going to affect your penis function as well. Definitely get

checked, get examined by your doctor, and get blood work done,

and see what's going on. You know, know your body, all you

guys, all the men.

I suggest any man over 20, or even 18, do testicle exam. Use

your two fingers and just examine your testicles to go

around, examine the borders of your testicle, examine the

texture of your testicles, even go up and feel what the

testicles connect to the piping that connect to the prostate,

because the testicles where testosterone is made where your

sperm is made, and then the sperm gets released and gets

stored in the sac here that connected the prostate, but then

the testosterone that's made in your testicle goes to the

bloodstream, and that's how you get your testosterone, right? So

your factory, or your manhood, is really from here. From the

testicle here, and then in the penis, there's a lot of like

receptor. Think of a receptor like the hole for the key, and

the testosterone is a key, and the whole of the key is the

penis here, and testosterone will go in that hole and open up

the door, or open up more blood flow in the penis. So

testosterone can affect the integrity of your penis as well,

but it's not the main thing. Low testosterone does not mean that

it's going to cause ED. It may affect the function of your

penis, but does not mean that it will cause ED. Many factors can

cause ED.

I will tell you that the most common cause of ED is really

alcohol. I drink a lot of alcohol, cigarette smoking,

obesity, overweight, and then diabetes, and high blood

pressure. So it's really lifestyle factors, and that, you

can stop from that. I know it's not easy, but you can

definitely, you do have a choice on that. So the most common

cause of ED is something that you can choose to stop. And then

following my dad's diabetes, of being overweight. So, the point

that I'm trying to say is that if you're overweight, or how do

you lose weight? You eat better by following the Mediterranean

diet and start exercising, that's how you lose weight.

Definitely get checked, and get your testosterone level checked.

Testosterone is made here, it affects the penis, also affect

the prostate. Remember, I mentioned that low testosterone

will also enlarge prostate, and also high testosterone will also

irritate the prostate. If you're on a testosterone

supplementation and the clinic, if you like a dose that's very

high and your level is above 1000 well, that testosterone

gets converted in your body to an inflammation testosterone

called dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. And DHT is be too much, and

will cause enlargement of the prostate here as well, and then

also it will cause hair loss. So there's a different receptor in

the hair that is sensitive to DHT that will cause hair loss.

So when you're on testosterone supplementation, just make sure

that you get your blood work at least once or twice a year to

know what your levels are, and don't try to manage it yourself.

You need to follow up with a doctor when you're doing

testosterone supplementation. Because high or low level can

really mess your body up.

Also follow up and say, well, shrinkage having problem with

shrinkage. Well, when you have low testosterone, you will

notice that the fetus will shrink a little bit, because

remember I said that the penis muscle has the receptor or the

keyhole, the keyhole for the key, the testosterone is the

key, and there's a key hole that's on the penis. So if the

penis may become softer or shrink a little bit, but not

having an erection will also shrink the penis a little bit

too. So, if you have ED and you're not having an erection,

because either you don't use a penis pump or you don't

masturbate. Because if you don't have an erection, your penis

muscle kind of actually start to atrophy or shrink, and then scar

tissue was set into the muscle, so that way it's harder to get

an erection next time. And then when you don't get an erection,

the penis muscle is not getting enough oxygen, not being

expanded. In a way, you don't get an erection, you are putting

yourself at risk for having more difficult erection in the

future, and when you have more difficult eruption in the

future, kind of hard to get an erection, right? So, for a man,

if you have ED, you should pump every other day, use a penis

pump, and that penis pump will give you an erection. Leave the

erection in the cylinder for 10 minutes. Pump to get an

erection, so that way you can exercise your penis. If you

don't exercise your penis, penis gonna shrink, and then the penis

is gonna have scar tissue. So, if you're not having intercourse

three times a week, use the penis pump. Go to this link

right here, ED No More.com or scan the QR code here to get

either the manual penis pump that we have or the electric

penis pump. It is literally taking your penis to the gym. It

is a penis exerciser and taking your penis to the gym for that.

Okay? So that's a good question about shrink it. What can you do

things for shrinkage. You can use your penis pump, get your

testosterone levels check, do testicle massage, testicle

massage right here. Because when you do testicle massage, the

massage itself will also increase blood flow to the

testicles, so you may make more testosterone naturally with

testicle massage. Okay? Know your testosterone level guy.

Because you can, if your testosterone level is low, then

you can get a supplement it through either testosterone

injection or testosterone pellet, and now even

testosterone orally, you can even get testosterone as a gel

as well, too. You can put it as a gel. But my favorite is

testosterone pellet. And then followed by injection. Okay? So

the key. Is know your level and that you do have choices, and

that how do you treat the root cause of ED is by following the

Mediterranean diet, and exercise, walking three times a

week, four times a week, get adequate sleep, seven hours of

sleep at nighttime, sleep between 10pm to 6am and then

stress reduction. And stress reduction, you can do that with

box breathing, can do the things that you enjoy, even sometimes

when you exercise, it's also a stress relief as well. Guys, we

are social beings, be around with people that make you feel

good and make you feel loved, and you give love as well. That

is a stress reduction. So, check out the Mediterranean diet, you

can find that at Eat for No ED.com or you can check out the

QR code here.

And really, that is a secret to getting your sex life back. Take

time, take up to three to six months, but you're not only

doing this to get your erection back, you're doing this really

for your health, because we know that men with ED, five to seven

years down the road, you're going to get a heart attack. And

5% is fatal, meaning you get a heart attack, and you die from.

So treating your ED now will actually save your life later on

the future. And be happy about that, because women don't have

feedback like that. We women notice more in symptoms of

harder to get erection and dryness, to know that we are

having ED, you guys know that you have ED, and it's really

Mother Nature's way of saying we have ED, the future you're going

to have heart issues, and you may even have incidences of

mortality, so do something about it now. So it's really your

warning sign that you need to make changes to your diet and

your exercise to be healthier, or else you're not going to be

able to have sexual performance. So, it's Mother Nature way of

telling you, get back, be healthy, or else you're not

gonna be able to perform.

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.

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