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People react to the news diffrently. Well, everyone has his own experiences, but also we tend to rely on what others tell us. So, if we think the of a “thing” benefits outweigh the costs, we are likely to engage in the activity or buy the “thing”. But we avoid or reject it, if we think we could lose out. That’s not always good, as if you avoid something, you don’t give yourself the opportunity to find out whether you actually lose. It’ s similar to a false alarm. On the other hand, most marketing is grounded on optimistic claims and often leaves you disappointed. And the experience gives you the chance to update your expectations. Except, that we all have our prejudices. The worse thing, we are likely to accept advice from people who confirm our point of view rather than from those who might challenge our beliefs. Thi si sall trust matters.

So what is our reaction when an “expert” tells us something? Psychologically , it depends on whether we think the person is biased or corrupt. If that’s the case, the fact the advice might be accurate and timely will make no difference. It will be ignored. Risk is all about uncertainty. It’s not something you can measure easily and the problem of how we react depends on how quickly the risk might come true. Try telling a cigarette smoker there’s a risk of cancer in twenty years time. It’s all about the pleasure now and the delusion you will do something about it before the risk gets more real.

A change in the labeling for Tramadol has just announced by the FDA. A letter has alos been sent to all doctors, advising a change to the way in which they write prescriptions. There were some reports that two people have died as a result of taking opioid painkillers. This is a delicate matter because the FDA will not say how many have died but, given past experience, we can assume the number is very small. The FDA tends to work on a precautionary basis and, if tens were dying, they would take the drug off the market. So why are these people dying? It comes down to overdoses – a tiny percentage of cases. It seems one or two people who were emotionally disturbed and depressed died when they took too much of the drug. Doctors are advised to highlight the drug interactions with Tramadol to all patients, especially those taking an antidepressant or tranquilizers.

FDA is actually less in the pocket of Big Pharma than under the last Administration. But the reality of the warning seems to really apply to a really small number of people apart from the million patients who take Tramadol regularly. While we would never suggest you ignore an FDA announcement, just be wise and consider a simple question. If the benefits of this painkiller are real to you, and the risks are only applicable to people wwith sserious mental aberrations, are you willing to change your response? We suspect the majprity of people won’t take much notice on the new label.

It’s always best to start off an article with a contemporary reference and, as of now, we have the perfect answer to the question, What is longer than an erection? The victory of Isner over Mahut at Wimbledon. Now we have the humor out of the way, we can get to the more important question whether erectile dysfunction is a symptom of diabetes and heart disease. One of the traps you can fall into is assuming there’s nothing seriously wrong with you if erections stop appearing or fade rapidly into the night. This is a kind of self-deception. You decided you did not want to go see a doctor. This was just too embarrassing. The internet is wonderfully anonymous. Everything will be great again once the little blue pills arrive. Well, you need to think again. Adding to the already impressive pile of evidence comes some new research out of Australia which followed a big group of men over a period of years. It seems that men aged 20 and above who experience erectile dysfunction are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack than men whose sexual performance is normal. To give you just one set of age-related numbers: if men have a serious episode of erectile dysfunction at the age of 55 and above, 2% will have a stroke or heart attack within twelve months, 11% within five years. The risk is actually greater if you are younger.

Almost 90% of men diagnosed with diabetes have some degree of erectile dysfunction. Now turn this around. If you have erectile dysfunction you should always have the test for glucose levels. Should you have diabetes and fail to get treatment, the progress of the disease slowly destroys the nerve endings controlling erections. So, even though you may have some respite when you begin using the little blue pills, they will slowly lose their effect. If the damage is too serious, you will never have an erection again. There’s no current treatment to repair lost nerve endings.

No matter how you write this type of article, it always ends up alarmist. You know how it works. If you want to live a full and active life, get a check-up. But, no matter how much we might try to wish this inconvenient truth away, it is the truth. So, no pressure, then. If you have what seems to be a sequence of erection failures, you could go online and buy Viagra from one of the pharmacies. The prices are low. You avoid embarrassment. But that does you little good if, a short while later, you begin to experience chest pain. Viagra will keep you going. Diabetes, a stroke or heart attack will stop you in your tracks. This reluctance to have a check-up is self-defeating. Diabetes can be treated and all damage to nerve endings prevented. Similarly, there’s an excellent series of drugs available to reduce the chances of heart disease to zero so long as you start early enough. So no more hiding online with Viagra arriving in plain wrappers. Meet the challenge head on and enjoy sex into your seventies and beyond (that should be “infinity and beyond” given the arrival of Toy Story III).

Once upon a time, there was a wife preparing to go on holiday, but she feared for her husband’s fidelity when left with the temptation of their Swedish au pair, so she left an apple on the au pair’s bed. Her husband was, after all, a doctor. Ever since apples were given a bad rep in the Garden of Eden, marketing gurus have been trying to recover the brand image and sell the fruit. The Beatles probably did more than anyone to put things back on the straight and narrow. For an all-too-brief moment, the record label was the fountainhead of some great music. Then it lived on in mothballs as the Fab Four fought over ownership of their back catalog.

After a few years, by some unknown means, the mantle of greatness was passed to Steve Jobs who, if you believe his fans’ blogs, walks on water every Tuesday just because he can. This candle of leadership has flickered in the wind, but Apple has now decided to confirm its status as a shaper of culture. Gone are the days when it just focused on the hardware. Now it’s all about the content. The numbers never lie. There have been more than 2 billions apps downloaded for the iPhone and iPod in the last eighteen months. That’s 6.3 million downloads a day. One of the more exciting is “Fire Up Your Sex Drive”. The developer is nothing if not inventive. He claims the app generates some powerful alpha waves. Exposing male users will enhance their sexual performance by up to 85% in less than two weeks. Presumably, the app broadcasts alpha male waves. What’s interesting is Apple’s willingness to allow its distribution. It used to have a reputation of being a little prudish. It seems some of the faux puritanism is rubbing off.

Fans also liked to think of their sport as being pure. This was athleticism elevated to art, and performance was endlessly analyzed to prove who were the best. In MLB, for example, people used to think Roger Clemens was just pleased to see his female fans. Now it turns out he was stuffing little blue pills into his locker. Indeed, the combination of steroids and Viagra seems to have been not uncommon among sportsmen. The theory is that, with the blood vessels dilated, the steroids reach the muscles faster and are taken up more efficiently. Whether you want to develop the top-heavy look favored by some football and baseball players, there’s no doubt of Viagra‘s real power to dilate arteries to good effect. Almost all men not suffering from physical incapacity or serious depression find Viagra works the first time they take it and produces consistently hard erections on all subsequent occasions. It’s a shame the manufacturers came along just a little too late to take over the “apple” brand. That image of a bite taken out of a green apple could have been the image to really launch the brand. As it is, customers have had to struggle with a foreign-sounding name. Fortunately, men have proved fast learners when it comes to passing on word of this drug’s power. It could probably have been called Xlzwp (Eden in the Serbo-Croatian language) and still have become the world’s most popular drug.