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In recent years, scientists discovered that certain unstable molecules called free radicals roam through the body attacking and destroying healthy tissue. A free radical molecule becomes

unstable because it has lost an electron. Think of it as sort of a loose cannon that careens around, interacting with other molecules in a destructive way. It really wants to stabilize itself, and to do that it will often steal an electron from another molecule. But this undermines the second molecule, making it into a free radical that spins off in search of an electron to grab from another molecule. It’s sort of like a destructive game of tag (I steal from you, you steal from the next guy). You can imagine how cells, tissues, and organs become permanently damaged by this

rampant stealing.

Luckily, we can fight the effects of free radicals with the antioxidants. The antioxidants get their name by fighting one of the most common free radicals found in the body—oxygen. That’s right, the same thing we must breathe to survive can also be the thing that does some of the greatest damage to our bodies. Except that this is a special form of oxygen called singlet oxygen. Oxygen molecules, including those we breathe, usually travel in groups of two (O₂). But sometimes, during the normal metabolic processes in the body, the twosome splits. The two new molecules are singlet oxygen. Each is missing an electron, so each becomes a roving free radical. Fortunately, the antioxidants are able to stabilize singlet oxygen and prevent it from wreaking havoc on bodily tissues.

The antioxidants include beta carotene and other carotenes (the plant form of the vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, and the mineral selenium. An easy way to remember them is to think of them as the 4 ACES we discussed before. As with all nutrients, it’s better to get them in their natural state, as a part of your foods, because they’re absorbed better and they work together with other substances contained in the food. Still, numerous studies have shown that supplements (when used in addition to a good diet) can help protect the body. So, I regularly recommend them to my patients. Below I’ve listed some sources of each of the 4 ACES, as well as the amount of supplementation that, after years of experience, I believe to be the best.

Now, the problem with taking all these supplements is obvious. It’s too complicated. And, as you will have seen so far, I believe in simplicity. Fortunately, there is a simple answer in this case. It lies in the facts that several brands of multivitamins exist that contain many or all of these recommended products. If you cannot find any of these brands in your local store, I suggest you ask your physician or nutritionist to suggest other appropriate products. Also, I should add that, as with my other recommendations, these are only general guidelines for supplements. Talk to your physician or nutritionist for your specific needs.

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The alternative is increased hostility between the partners, increased depression, and the possibility of breakdown of the marriage.
A man may escape the emotional instability, the anxiety of middle age because of his curiosity about life, because of his creativity, or because of acceptance of himself as he is, but he may still become a victim of the dangers of over-indulgence in food and drink and the hazards of high blood pressure.

An individual is said to be overweight, or fat, if his weight is 10 per cent more than it should be for his height, weight, and age. If his weight is 20 per cent or more than his desirable weight, he is obese. In our society 10 per cent of 40-year-old men are obese; and 15 per cent are obese by the age of 50.

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The Judaeo-Christian revulsion against homosexuality requires further consideration, as the Christian Churches have been one of the strongest influences in society’s condemnation of homosexuality and its persecution of overt homosexuals. The revulsion and condemnation are not based on ethical but on cultic considerations.

It began when, under Moses, the Jews escaped from Egypt and, after long wanderings, took over land in Canaan. Both the Egyptians and the Canaanites had religions in which idolatry and ritual sexual intercourse with male as well as female temple prostitutes were part of the cult. To preserve their exclusiveness as a free people in a hostile land, the Jewish leaders ordered their people to avoid all the ritual of the Canaanites, especially the idolatry and the ritual sexual intercourse. To emphasize their ruling they called such acts abominations (Lev. 18:20, 22; 20:13; Deut. 23:18). The word itself (to’ ebah) means that the practice is to be loathed on religious grounds. Homosexuality was condemned because of its connection with a ritual abhorrent to the Jews, namely idolatry.

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A dominant mother, who is strictly religious and believes sex to be evil, is not the only background pattern found in men who have primary impotence. Childhood experiences, and attempted coital episodes in adolescence, can lead to a personal sexual insecurity, which is equally destructive to a man’s masculine self-image. Homosexual preference, in which the man has either been the passive partner, or imagines himself as the passive partner, can lead to impotence when, either to please a dominant mother, or to try to find a gender-identity, the man marries.

The end-result of these various pathways is that the man develops anxiety and tension to such a degree that his sexual performance is suppressed. He becomes impotent.

The background of a man who becomes secondarily impotent is rather different, although many of these men have had a strict upbringing in which sex was either not mentioned or said to be dirty.

Most men who have secondary impotence develop the disorder as a result of persistent anxiety that they fail to meet what is considered in our culture a ‘normal’ sexual performance. Premature ejaculation, for example, is a relatively common antecedent of secondary impotence. This is the reason why premature ejaculation is erroneously classed as impotence by many sexologists. It is not. However, the anxiety of the premature ejaculator that he is failing regularly as a lover, and that he is less virile than his fellows, can lead to a psychological retreat from sexual contact, which is typified by impotence.

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Men and women may have sexual dysfunctions which may cause considerable distress. Women have four main problems. The first is that some women have little or no sexual desire, and consequently fail to become sexually aroused. These women may avoid sexual intercourse or may submit because they feel it their duty, but find it distasteful. Some of the women with this sexual problem are hostile to, or bored with, their partner; others enjoy caring for the man in other ways but avoid any sexual advances he may make. The problem has recently been called ‘inhibited sexual desire’. The second sexual problem is that although the woman has a normal sexual desire, she does not become aroused when sexually pleasured. This means that her^agina lubricates poorly and sexual intercourse may be painful or unpleasant. The third problem is that ,n are so inhibited about sex that when a man attempts to insert his penis into the woman’s vagina, an intense muscular spasm occurs, because of the pain the woman feels. The woman has a normal sexual desire, and becomes sexually aroused but is unable to accept the man’s penis in or near her vagina; the condition is called vaginismus. The fourth problem is that the woman has a normal sexual desire, is easily sexually aroused, but is unable to reach orgasm, at least during sexual intercourse.

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