The Hardness Factor: How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age PDF
Preview The Hardness Factor: How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age
THE Hardness FAC TOR ™ How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age STEVEN LAMM, M.D. with GERALD SECOR COUZENS To my beautiful wife, Kiki, whose love nourishes and supports me. To my mother, Lucy, whose vitality inspires me. And to my five loving children, David, Suzanne, Alexandra, Morgan, and Owen. steven lamm, m.d. To Elisa, Gerald, Dominic, Mary, and Rose, my love and appreciation forever. To F.X.M., who kept it real. gerald secor couzens Contents Preface: Sex Is Important . . . ix One Part The Mental and Physical Aspects of Hardness 1 1 What Is the Hardness Factor? 3 ◗ How Dependable Is Your Penis? ◗ Sex Is a Measure of a Man’s Health ◗ How Hard Is Your Penis? ◗ Beginning The Hardness Factor Program 12 A Hard Man Is Good to Find— Erections Come from the Heart 25 ◗ Heart Health = Hard and Healthy ◗ Eliminating the Sexual Confidence Gap ◗ What Is Your Hardness Risk? iv Contents ◗ Hardness 101 ◗ The Refractory Period—Come Again? ◗ Saying Yes to NO 1 3 The Hardness Factor Six-Week Program— Better Health, Better Sex, Better Life 45 ◗ Hardness in Both Body and Mind ◗ Hard Is Good; Harder Is Better ◗ My Hardness Prescription ◗ Sensuous Nutrition: A Connection to Hardness ◗ Hardness Factor Supplements—Nature’s Viagra ◗ Getting Fit for Sex Two Part The Hardness Factor Six-Week Program Hard Is Good—Harder Is Better 14 Week One: Building a Foundation 65 ◗ The Start of a Lifetime of Hardness ◗ Vitamins for the Penis ◗ Pycnogenol Battles Free Radicals ◗ A Hardness Booster—How L-Arginine Works ◗ The Hardness Factor Pycnogenol/L-Arginine Program ◗ Walk Your Way to Fitness ◗ The Hardness Factor Walking Program ◗ Visualization—a Powerful Preview v www.thehardnessfactor.com Contents 15 Week Two: The Hardness Factor Lifestyle 93 ◗ Who Has Time for a Libido? ◗ Halfhearted Sex Results in Half-Hardness ◗ Let’s Get Lust ◗ Essence of a Man: Testosterone ◗ Testosterone Checklist ◗ Men and Masturbation ◗ Horny Goat Weed Makes You, Well, Horny ◗ The Hardness Factor Horny Goat Weed Program ◗ Make Time for Tea 6 Week Three: The Halfway Milestone 125 ◗ Renew Your Hard Resolve ◗ Hardness Factor Supplements—Omega-3s Are #1 ◗ The Hardness Factor Omega-3 Program ◗ Another Guy Thing—Fear of Doctors ◗ The Blues Can Be a Medical Condition ◗ Taking Care of Your Prostate 7 Week Four: Getting Harder 151 ◗ Red Wine Extract for the Heart and Hardness ◗ The Hardness Factor OPC Program ◗ Over Before It Begins: Premature Ejaculation ◗ The Unquickie—Tantric Sex ◗ Renewing Your Energy Sources ◗ Peyronie’s Disease—Life’s Curveball vi Contents 8 Week Five: You Feel the Change and So Does Your Penis 173 ◗ When It’s Harder to Get Hard, Tell Your Doctor ◗ Heart Disease Checklist ◗ Boosting HDL Boosts Hardness ◗ Niacin Works Very Hard ◗ The Hardness Factor Niacin Program ◗ Eating for Enjoyment and Health ◗ Understanding Your BMR ◗ Downward Motility 9 Week Six: Hardness—a Way of Life 199 ◗ Better Sex, Better Health, Better Life ◗ One...Two...Three...Foreplay ◗ Antioxidants = Antisoftness ◗ The Hardness Factor Vitamin C and E Program ◗ Diabesity: A Natural Softener ◗ Diabetes Checklist ◗ Sexual Fitness: Men Never Had a Jane Fonda vii www.thehardnessfactor.com Contents Three Part Hardness for Life (or at Least Through Friday Night) 10 The Hardness Factor Four-Day Insurance Policy✷ 223 ✷TO BE OPENED ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY ◗ Sensual Nutrition: Make Changes in What You Eat ◗ Supplement Your Hardness ◗ Sexual Fitness for Hardness 11 Hardness: A New Barometer of Your Health 241 ◗ Impact of Aging ◗ Stress Can Keep You Down ◗ Sleep Apnea Erases Erections ◗ Excessive Drinking Makes Erections Soft ◗ Drugs Prevent Hard Erections ◗ Diabetes Limits Erections 12 Harder Problems 253 ◗ Sexual Medicine Is Medicine ◗ Viagra—the Beginning ◗ Levitra ◗ Cialis ◗ Which Erection Drug to Choose ◗ Erectile Dysfunction Therapy viii Contents 13 Harder Still 263 ◗ Fear of Ugliness ◗ My Hardness Workout ◗ Why Weight? ◗ NO: Good for the Pump ◗ It’s Your Body, How Hard Do You Want It? Appendices I Eating Hard: Creating a Hardness-Friendly Shopping List 279 II Recipes for Hardness: Eating Is a Good Thing— so Is Being Hard 285 III The Hardness Factor Six-Week Program Guide 317 IV Equipment: Our Shopping List 325 V Visual Aid 329 VI Biographies 331 Index 333 Acknowledgments About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher
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