Best Male Enhancement

March 20, 2009 1:01 PM

What is the best male enhancement medicine or natural herbs to stay hard longer and to carry more stamina.

What is the best male enhancement medicine or natural herbs to stay hard longer and to carry more stamina.

I need something that is healthy but is really good.

I prefer natural.

I heard Blackseed and Honey is great.

But how should I take those then?

posted by minsid to health & fitness (13 comments total)

See this thread.
posted by jquinby at 1:16 PM on March 20

There's nothing "unnatural" about taking a medically prescribed pill. Anything you put in your body that isn't food is medicine, so either get something responsible that has been studied or some bullshit that anyone can sell.

See your doctor.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:23 PM on March 20

What is the best male enhancement medicine or natural herbs to stay hard longer and to carry more stamina.

The best ED medicine is Viagra or its FDA-approved chemical alternatives. You could throw your money away on herbal supplement crap or more wisely spend that money on seeing an ED specialist. "Stamina" is a secondary issue: do you mean staying erect longer or withholding ejaculation/orgasm?
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:40 PM on March 20 [1 favorite]

Don't take or do anything that purports to affect your penis without a prescription. Seriously.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 1:58 PM on March 20 [2 favorites]

Drink less coffee. Eat less sugar. Drink more water. Get more sleep.
posted by rokusan at 2:03 PM on March 20 [1 favorite]

Be warned that a lot of stuff marketed as "herbal viagra" is actually a reverse engineered form of iiagra produced in China. So people who normally would not take viagra because of heart problems are taking the "herbal" crap and having heart problems.

If ED is an issue then do what the previous posters have said: get a script and get the real stuff.
posted by damn dirty ape at 2:04 PM on March 20

Given your posting history, I strongly suggest you find a doctor you're comfortable discussing sex issues with. You seem to have quite a few sex questions and it's best to get information from someone you know and trust, and who knows you, instead of some schmoes on the internet.
posted by Metroid Baby at 3:04 PM on March 20 [2 favorites]

I've found its not doing it or whacking it for a day or two. Works every time for me.
posted by christhelongtimelurker at 3:28 PM on March 20

Mayo Clinic article listing pros and cons of some options.

Mayo Clinic article on herbal supplements in general (that also supports some things said previously)
posted by gimonca at 3:52 PM on March 20

Please, please listen to Metroid Baby.

Meanwhile, about those "natural" herbs: there is no meaningful difference between "natural" and "synthetic". Neither one is a guarantee of healthfulness or effectiveness. Whether a given chemical compounds was extracted from a plant or synthesized in a lab doesn't have anything to do with how that compound will affect your body, or whether it'll be "good" or "bad" for you.

You can mix acetyl chloride with sodium salicylate in a lab, or you can chew on (a lot of) willow bark. Either way you're getting aspirin. One's "natural," the other "synthetic," but it's exactly the same compound. (And with the synthetic version you get a lot less bark stuck between your teeth.)

If something bears this disclaimer or anything similar,

These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are for educational purposes only. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness, disease, or condition.

then it is a safe bet that the substance in question will have absolutely no beneficial effect. (If it did, somebody would've put it through FDA testing so they could sell it as medicine instead of as sketchily-described 'herbal supplements'.)

If, as with blackseed, someone claims it as a "miracle cure" for "a wide range of ailments," or better yet that it "should be used regularly because it has a cure for every disease except death," then that safe bet of ineffectiveness can be upgraded to an absolute guarantee.
posted by ook at 7:45 PM on March 20

Exercise.
posted by gjc at 9:10 PM on March 20

practice practice practice
posted by pianomover at 10:00 AM on March 21

There isn't anything natural that truly works, if there were we'd all be walking around with raging hard-ons.

That being said, since there is often a connection between impotence and heart disease, if you are fat, have a lousy diet, don't exercise, you should begin to do those things. If nothing else, then you'd probably be in a better mood which might positively affect any psychological/emotional erection issues.

There are only two documented natural items that might effect your erections.

1) Yohimibe, might, just might work. Before Viagra, there was Yohimbine derived from Yohimbe. Lots of nasty side effects though. Stay away. If you don't heed the warnings and then die, well don't say you weren't warned.

2) Arginine, in theory this is supposed to work on the same level in relaxing arteries as Viagra. THis is also much less likely to produce side effects provided you don't take a ridiculous amount.

But seriously, go to a doctor. Your little head is affected by your big head and your heart/circulatory system, its function is often a figurative canary in a coalmine for more serious stuff.
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Drink less coffee. Eat less sugar. Drink more water. Get more sleep.

Actually a few cups of coffee has a stimulant effect which stimulates EVERYTHING. If coffee were unknown to the west but newly discovered, it would be "Qo-fi! The new all natural herbal ener-G elixer!" - and sold at every health food store. A few cups a day, provided you're not sensitive is no freakin' problem people!

And the drink more water thing as the cure for EVERYTHING is pretty much debunked as an urban legend now. It's sort of become the health version of Godwin.
posted by xetere at 6:38 PM on March 21 [2 favorites]