Men’s health with Viagra

Viagra, Levitra and Cialis - three similar drugs for impotence - conquer new market segments. If earlier, the first advertising campaign Viagra, filmed old Senator Bob Dole, now the heroes of movies are men under the age of forty.

Marketing is no longer offered to customers of impotence treatment, and position their products as pills for pleasure. Levitra for example, is painted in cheerful orange. Accordingly, the expanded and the range of buyers. “Patients” were healthy people who wanted to hedge before the moving date.

In the minds of most people is the image of the ideal man, always ready for sex. Trying to conform to this view, the men take pills secretly. Entering the bedroom with crimson on the cheeks - common side effect of Viagra - they are complaining about the heat and stuffiness. And the morning often conceal as suffer from a headache. As noted by The New York Times, these tablets are often drunk, and gay men. Both of the lover to do so by stealth friend of a friend, and then passing along the same side effects.

MYTHS ABOUT VIAGRA

Lawyers who practice family law, argued: the miracle pill have a spillover, social rather than health effects. In any case, the validity of North American full of such examples.

By bringing them together and adding their own medical experience, Abraham Morgenthaler, former resident of Montreal, and now a medical professor of Harvard, wrote a book, which described very eloquently: “The myth of Viagra.” The main idea is the publication: Viagra helped in a marriage, but also destroyed many families.

“Viagra is not only in North America, but throughout the world, was now just as recognizable as Coca-Cola, for example,” - said the author of the book, personally discharged a lot of prescriptions to their patients. But none of them udosuzhilsya find side effects or, so to speak, the reverse side of this medicine.

Dark Side Viagra

The blue pill, advocates say, the leading cause of divorce, have been the subject of many trials, the essence of which is reduced to banality earthy: the husband, who for fifty, backed flesh Viagra, are beginning to change their lost interest in sex wives and taken to seek younger partners. A wife, in turn, are looking for lawyers to obtain a divorce. Neither side called the Viagra does not cause divorce, but lawyers say, these pills - an undeniable factor.

Here is just one example, to tell a lawyer, representing the divorced couple. The initiator of the divorce was her husband. My wife found the recipe first drawn to her husband, and then the pills themselves. Of them before her husband went to a two-day trip. When the husband returned home from the eight available in its arsenal of pills to be only one … That was the decisive factor in divorce.

Another character, the patient, a young man 38 years old, took pills, “so as not to lose the first bed and not oploshat in front of his girlfriend. And in a few days girlfriend opened the secret of sexual activity her boyfriend - she found in his pocket pill Viagra … The relationship collapsed as suddenly as it began.

Sex and marriage - not the same thing

Many of the patients felt the doctor Morgenthaler those blue pill panacea for resolving all their problems - not only purely medical-related erection (impotence), but simply human. It only hurt them. “I listened to my patients and found that Viagra has given rise to the legend, left out of the pharmaceutical opportunities. People that need a prescription for Viagra, felt as if this blue pill solve their personal relationships with the opposite sex, and break all the barriers to sexual attraction” - says the author of the book.

If someone does not cause you have sexual feelings at an emotional level, then you will not Viagra assistant. Tablets may assist only in the physical plane - and only. Meanwhile, the majority of men, according to the doctor Morgenthaler, Viagra is used as a means of inspiration, not as a medical drug. As proof he cited the example of young people who buy Viagra over the Internet - for those buyers on all health indicators, there is no dysfunction of erection, but they still want to Viagra - for the emotional, as they explain. This is a big mistake, it is alleged in the book.

But the elderly of this “inspiration”, as says the same book, are mostly not fun, and sexually transmitted diseases. It is their charge for attempting to grasp the tail fly youth - obtain the Viagra, they are looking for prostitutes, as not thinking before. ” Another result of this activity - the increasing proportion of AIDS among the population of pensionable age.

Cud - “Viagra”

Company Wrigley, the world’s largest manufacturer of chewing gum, has patented a new product, which includes sildenafila citrate, the active component of the popular drug Viagra.

Consumers are encouraged to use the gum for at least 30 minutes prior to entry into sexual relations. The application for a patent, it is reported that chewing gum provides a gradual release of the active substance in blood that can increase the effectiveness of its actions. At the same time, the company Wrigley said that it had no plans to production of chewing gum with Viagra. “There is a big difference between registration of a patent and actually developing a product”. said a company representative.

The main obstacle is that currently the drug Viagra, used to treat impotence, patented pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which expires after eight years.

Viagra found application in transplantation

Viagra, which occupies first place in sales volume in the market of drugs to treat impotency, may soon find widespread use in transplantation. A study carried out by scientists from the University of Florida, this drug effectively lowers blood pressure in people who have heart transplants, while causing far fewer side effects than traditional antihypertensive funds.

During the study, which was attended by 15 people who have received heart transplants and suffering from hypertension, it was shown that daily use of “Viagra” in a dose of 50 mg (standard dose for treatment of Erectile Dysfunction) lowers blood pressure and a large circulation, and vessels in the lungs. When the pressure is not reduced below normal levels, that is an absolute advantage “Viagra” to other drugs.

“We found the effect of” Viagra “to suggest that this drug will be widely used in transplantation as a means to reduce blood pressure,” - said the researchers.

Many long orgasm

Viagra is five years old. Blue tabletochka made a better life 20 million men who have had some problems with sex.

Happy were the shareholders and Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical company that produces Viagra: this year was billionth tablet. The product is sold in 120 countries, and only in 2002, he brought the company revenue of $ 1.7 billion dollars.

Blue rombik cover 80% of the world market funds against erektivnoy dysfunction. But for the past few months in pharmacies can be purchased new drugs, such as sialis company Eli Lilly and Icos, or Levitra company Bayer (the latter was created in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline, the drug called vivantsa).

Meanwhile, Pfizer scientists are exploring new possibilities of sildenafila - the main active substance Viagra. In laboratories in Sandwich team of scientists working on the issue of whether to use the substance to combat sexual dysfunction in women, and several other pathologies, such as increased pulmonary arterial pressure.

Mitradev Boolell, who in 1993 participated in the initial studies on Viagra, and is now head of development group, explained: “Only since 1992, sexual dysfunction in women have begun to refer to the category of disease.” Prior to that time prevailed “Victorian vision of” problems, when it came to women. Sex was meant only for procreation, and all studies have focused on the treatment of infertility. ”

But in the same way as men’s, women’s dysfunction, these may be symptoms of heart disease, diabetes or depression, which should be treated.

Scientists from the company Pfizer began a few years ago, work to obtain a pink Viagra, “but to patent it as a drug, will take time,” warns Boolell, recalling that “in order to remedy a market requires 15 years of work and 800 million dollars of investments. ”

Meanwhile, based on the results of a study conducted by Pfizer, which was attended by 202 women (103 received placebo and 99 - sildenafil), those ladies, tablet which was present, had greater satisfaction from sexual relations.

And while Viagra is becoming more and more consumers. At the outset of a typical client was a married man aged about 60. Today, in addition to some women, this drug is used by young people, to avoid the risk of failure at the first experience, and gays.

Many young Britons do not conceal that the use of Viagra to counterbalance the side effects of the admission of drugs and alcohol. One 31-year-old woman admitted Sunday Times, that “sex has eight hours of running” with his bride after taking Viagra: “This is a very interesting experience, almost an animal, but without passion.” 30-year-old actor from Brighton remembers that took the drug for “fun” with two girlfriends at the same time: “All three of us have experienced a fantastic pleasure.”

In September, Viagra brought climbers performing a ascend Mont Blanc. They had the impression that the tool helps to alleviate the symptoms of mountain sickness and improve physical condition. Thus, the zone of application of blue rombika expanding: The name of this drug has entered the dictionaries and lists of medications, which are paid 85 per cent of European Union officials.

But the main goal remains the army men who have problems with it. ” These 3 million in Italy, 30 - in the United States, 60 million in China.

Levitra vs Viagra

New drug to treat impotency Levitra helps men, even in cases where traditional Viagra is powerless. Reported by Greek researchers at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The results of their research, which was attended by 463 volunteers, showed that Levitra restores the potency of the 46.1 percent of men, which does not help Viagra. Apparently, this is due to more efficient exposure to a new drug to the blood circulation in the genital organs.

It should be noted that this study was commissioned by the producers of Levitra pharmaceutical companies “Bayer” and “GSK”, so its results should be treated very cautiously.

Competing for impotent

The battle for market high-yield funds from impotency tightened. This fall, followed by Pfizer and Eli Lilly, a new development - drug Levitra - present pharmaceutical giants Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline. According to analysts, the fast-growing market there’s plenty of space.

Since its inception in 1998, the drug Viagra American company Pfizer almost five years had a monopoly on the market of medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. This year he has two competitors. In spring we withdrew the drug market cialis U.S. Eli Lilly, and soon in pharmacies will be another competitor - Levitra from Bayer (developed jointly with GlaxoSmithKline).

Competitors have to fight for that. In Russia Viagra in the first half ranked first in sales of prescription drugs. According to CMS ‘Farmekspert “, its sales amounted to $ 15.6 million

All three drugs have a similar mechanism of action, but differ in details. Manufacturers sialisa saw his advantage in that it operates longer (up to 36 hours) compared with Viagra (4 - 5 pm). And according to the head of the Medical Department of the firm “Onyx” (in Russia represents the interests of Bayer) Natalia Polushkin, Levitra takes effect much faster than the competitors products, about 15 minutes after admission. “A man can more rapidly realize their need,” - said she. According Polushkin, able to take a new 25 - 30% of the Russian market from impotency. More accurate forecasts of sales in “Onyx” has not yet been disclosed. “New drugs come onto the market, which has very great potential. It is likely that some redistribution of the market there,” - said the executive director of Farmeksperta Nikolai Demidov. According to him, warmed by joint efforts of three companies market drugs against impotence is growing rapidly and the next year could reach a level of $ 30 million

Competitors Bayer believes that the place in the market have enough for everyone. “The market for drugs treating erectile dysfunction in Russia remains largely untapped - the representative said Eli Lilly Ol’ga Katruha. - According to WHO, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction in the world - 52% among men older than 40 years. In Russia, a potential group is to at least 13 million people. According to various studies, is currently receiving treatment, only about 200 000 - 500 000. Gateway to the third drug will help draw attention to the problem and increase the number of men who will seek a solution. ” “All together we probably raskachaem this segment - agrees director of Business Development Pfizer Russian representative Alexander Shibaev - probably our market share will decline, but sales that will grow.”

According to “Farmeksperta”, that is exactly what is happening. In the first half of last year, Viagra has held 89% market share with sales of $ 11.9 million, and the first half of this share declined to 79%, but sales rose to $ 15.6 million Sialis, to assess “Farmeksperta”, in II quarter of the year gained nearly 4% of the market means against impotency.

Viagra is not all

Erection dysfunction or sexual impotence is the inability of men to erection, in some cases, erection occurs, but may not last long enough to maintain a sexual act. The reasons for such a violation could be problems with the cardiovascular system, spinal cord injuries, diabetes, as well as the side effect of certain medications.

About 10 million Americans suffer from various Erectile Dysfunction. Do not think that Viagra will be saved in all these cases. Doctors finally, tend to the general opinion that before the draw Viagra, it is necessary to conduct a detailed examination of patients for the reasons that causes impotence, reported ABCnews.com.

Viagra - not only by impotence

A popular drug against impotence can be successfully applied to treat diseases of the lungs and heart, the Air Force.
High blood pressure in lung arteries can be caused by heart disease or chronic lung disease - emphysema, bronchitis. Sometimes high blood pressure in the lungs develops without any apparent reason, often - people living in highland areas. With increased pulmonary arterial pressure to move seriously ill and have problems associated with physical exertion.

Collaborative research conducted by scientists from the UK and Kyrgyzstan have shown that Viagra can be effectively used to treat diseases of cardiovascular system and lower blood pressure in the lungs.

After a series of experiments in which male volunteers to artificially raise the blood pressure in the lungs, placing first in the group conditions of low oxygen content, and the second introduced sildenafil. The result proved that the blood pressure in the lungs of the subjects from the second group hardly rose.
Active component of  Viagra  is sildenafil, the mechanism of action that will prevent or suppress the unwanted increase in blood pressure.