Alcohol and Substance Abuse

Life style factors are an important part of physical causes of erectile dysfunction. Clinical studies conducted so far prove that a different way of managing one's life may prevent or decrease the risk of impotence. Abusing alcohol or illicit substances often leads to sever forms of erectile dysfunctions. Alcoholism doesn't only cause nerve damage, but it also leads to atrophy of the testicles and low levels of testosterone.

Medical surveys claim that over 80% of chronic alcoholics suffer from chronic impotence.
Furthermore, substances like marijuana, heroin, cocaine, etc contribute in larger or shorter periods of time to a complete loss of sexual response and to vascular and nervous system damages.