DEAR Dr. Fritz,
Good day to you. I am one of your avid followers. I know that you are into clinical sexology and medicine. Being in such expertise, I hope you can tell me if there are foods that can help people faced with a problem of erectile dysfunction.
I am interested because I am plagued with this condition. This is also the reason why I am trying to seek other avenues to help me aside from the medical treatment that I am getting now. Doc, I hope you can shed light to this since I feel that my quality of life is crumbling down because of it.
I don’t like living like this. At 38, I feel like my life is grey and dull. I want my life back.
Thanks a lot, doc. Hope you will have a nice day. God bless.
Jessie James of Sto. Tomas
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Dear Jessie James of Sto. Tomas,
Foods do really have an impact in our lives. We are what we eat. You are what you eat. That is the reason why you only have yourself to blame if you have weight problems, hypertension or diabetes at an early age. This is, of course, aside from the genes which is also a contributing factor for acquiring those. But oftentimes, it doesn’t mean that if hypertension or diabetes runs in the family, you will automatically be one of its immediate recipients. You do really have a say over these problems because you are the one that is running your life unless you let other people rein you by letting them choose the foods that you eat. Then that is the only time that you can blame them if you have problems with hypertension, diabetes and the like. But, more often than not, it is you who reins your life.
You are not a robot, right? You are a free man who chooses what you want in your life. Whatever you have right now is the result of the choices or actions you have made in the past.
Well, there are soooo many fast food restaurants almost everywhere that hit our appetites right but put our health in turmoil. I mentioned that to emphasize that the kind of diet we have can actually break our heart and even our lives. In this sense, it can also affect our sex life.
Opps! As much as I want to talk more about some steps that you can take to help you get to the right foods so you can win this war between the sheets, but since we don’t have a lot of space for all of it now, let me then continue this topic in my next issue. Until then!
Dr. Fritz
(Dr. Fritz Legarde Espedilla is an aesthetic dermatologist and surgeon and a clinical sexologist. She is also trained in hypnotherapy and Medical Acupuncture. She has been in the broadcast media for more than a decade and has written a book based on her 15 year stint with her radio program, “Healthy is Sexy Secrets ni Dr. Fritz.” She is also a faculty in a College of Pharmacy. For your questions, you may send them to Dear Dr. Fritz, c/o SunStar-Davao Publishing Inc., Ebro-Pelayo Building, Jacinto St., Davao City, (former Department of Foreign Affairs office), across Ateneo de Davao University and beside Holy Child School of Davao, or you e-mail them to dokfritz@yahoo.com. If you don’t wish your letter to be published, we regret that we cannot answer them. Thank you for your understanding.)