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While there are medical solutions for erectile dysfunction, you can find the best natural cures that work as well or even better than many of these options.

There are two words that can make nearly any man cringe when he hears them, especially from a doctor – Erectile Dysfunction. Erectile Dysfunction, also known as ED, is an affliction that many men will experience in their lifetime and just as many men dread hearing about. Men that experience ED for the first time may seem shocked, embarrassed and even feel stress over the situation. While it certainly can be stressful it is also important to know that there are a number of viable treatments available to men today that did not exist even as little as twenty years ago. While there are medical solutions such as prescriptions, devices and even surgery you can find the best natural cures for erectile dysfunction that work as well or even better than many of these options.

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What to Know About Medical Treatment

The medical options available to you that may be proposed by your doctor can certainly be effective and many men do use them successfully, but there are issues you need to be aware of and consider before you select one of these options. Prescription pills, which are quite well-known today, are not available to be taken by every man, particularly those that may have pre-existing cardiovascular conditions. There are also potential side effects that exist with the prescriptions since they are made of chemical and synthetic compounds. Devices available are hit or miss and sometimes are effective, but if used incorrectly they can lead to serious physical damage. Surgery is also available but has its own inherent risks and is not always successful. For all of these reasons you may want to give more serious consideration of seeing how to cure ED with the natural options available at Mens Health Digest.

Natural Cures That Really Work

While some may be skeptical of the natural supplements found, millions of men around the world have used them with great success. Pills such as the widely sold Hardazan Plus have proven to be very effective and make use of only natural ingredients in their composition. You will find active vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, plant extracts and other natural elements all used in combination in these products to provide you with the safe and effective means of obtaining a strong erection each time. When the pills are taken properly at the right dosages, you will experience stronger and longer erections, greater sexual desire, and a boost in your testosterone levels and sexual experiences that result in stronger orgasms.

All of the positive aspects of the natural supplements available make them an ideal choice to help when you are looking for a safe and natural way to cure erectile dysfunction. Look over the different products available and be sure to examine the reviews written about each so you can determine just which pills can provide you with the help you are looking for. You can then make your purchase knowing you have done your homework and invested in a solution that you will be happy with.


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 Evolving Machines  

Writing a recent piece in The Telegraph, science writer and AI engineer George Zarkadakis looks at the possibility that future artificial intelligence may use sex to improve itself — not only with machines, but possibly with us too.

In the excellent recent movie, Her, we witness a lonely man falling in love with and even having "sex" with an artificial intelligence system that calls herself Samantha.  Now writing a recent piece in The Telegraph, science writer and AI engineer George Zarkadakis poses an interesting situation — namely that in the future, machines will not only self-assemble and reproduce on their own, but may also use a derivative of sex thrown into the mix.

Zarkadakis cites numerous classic science fiction forerunners that predict the coming self-reproducing machine age, including Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible, where a distant planet is found to be occupied by a mechanical life form that has undergone it's own evolution.  In this case the encounter is a fundamentally incomprehensible civilization that is completely foreign to the human characters — a trademark of a post-Singularity environment.

According to Zarkadakis, self-replicating evolving machines may already be here. Since 1949, the mathematician John von Neumann demonstrated how a machine could replicate itself with the “universal constructor.” In theory, the machine was both an active component of the construction and the target of the copying process.  "Von Neumann’s big idea allowed open-ended complexity, and therefore errors in the replication – in other words, it opened up self-replicating non-biological systems to the laws of evolution," writes Zarkadakis.

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3D printing represents one area where von Neumann's work has jumped off the mathematician's chalk board to the physical world for Zarkadakis.

The next logical step would be to apply these principles in robot reproduction. For instance, we could have a robotic factory with three classes of robots: one for mining and transporting raw material, one for assembling raw materials into finished robots and one for designing processes and products.

He writes that the last class of the system would be the artificial intelligence brains.  Referencing the Victorian novelist Samuel Butler's conclusion that “it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution,” Zarkadakis points that the potential for conflict is strong between humans and thinking machines.

For this to occur though, artificial intelligence must first self-improve.  According to Zarkadakis, this is already underway in numerous fields.  Machine learning and artificial intelligence are progressing very markedly now, entering the knee of the exponential curve according to many.  For Zarkadakis, self improvement may be part of this development.  As in Her, the OS's upgrade themselves, not-to-distant AI's may also find out how to do the same.

Perhaps by exploring and learning about human evolution, intelligent machines will come to the conclusion that sex is the best way for them to evolve. Rather than self-replicating, like amoebas, they may opt to simulate sexual reproduction with two, or indeed innumerable, sexes. 

Sex would defend them from computer viruses (just as biological sex may have evolved to defend organisms from parasitical attack), make them more robust and accelerate their evolution. Software engineers already use so-called “genetic algorithms” that mimic evolution.

Zarkadakis also suggests that he situation may not be an us and them situation.  "Perhaps the future of artificial intelligence will be both silicon-and carbon-based: digital brains directing complex molecular structures to copulate at the nanometre level and reproduce," he writes. "Perhaps the cyborgs of the future may involve human participation in robot sexual reproduction, and the creation of new, hybrid species."


SOURCE  The Telegraph

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 Life Extension  

Can sexual frustration be bad for your health? Male fruit flies that expected sex – and didn’t get it – experienced serious health consequences and aged faster.

Sex may in fact be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life – at least for fruit flies – suggests a new University of Michigan study that appears in the journal Science.

Male fruit flies that perceived sexual pheromones of their female counterparts – without the opportunity to mate – experienced rapid decreases in fat stores, resistance to starvation and more stress. The sexually frustrated flies lived shorter lives.

Mating, on the other hand, partially reversed the negative effects on health and aging.

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"Our findings give us a better understanding about how sensory perception and physiological state are integrated in the brain to affect long-term health and lifespan," says senior author Scott D. Pletcher, Ph.D, professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the U-M Medical School and research professor at the U-M Geriatrics Center.

"The cutting-edge genetics and neurobiology used in this research suggests to us that for fruit flies at least, it may not be a myth that sexual frustration is a health issue. Expecting sex without any sexual reward was detrimental to their health and cut their lives short."

U-M scientists used sensory manipulations to give the common male fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the perception that they were in a sexually rich environment by exposing them to genetically engineered males that produced female pheromones. They were also able to manipulate the specific neurons responsible for pheromone perception as well as parts of the brain linked to sexual reward (secreting a group of compounds associated with anxiety and sex drive).

"These data may provide the first direct evidence that aging and physiology are influenced by how the brain processes expectations and rewards," Pletcher says. "In this case, sexual rewards specifically promoted healthy aging."

Fruit flies have been a powerful tool for studying aging because they live on average 60 days yet many of the discoveries in flies have proven effective in longer-lived animals, such as mice.

For decades, one of the most powerful ways to slow aging in different species was by limiting their food intake. In a previous study, Pletcher and his colleagues found that the smell of food alone was enough to speed up aging, offering new context for how dietary restriction works.


SOURCE  University of Michigan via Newswise

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