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Caffeine and Erectile Dysfunction

We drink coffee. We drink soda. Chocolate is a favorite of ours. They all contain caffeine in varying amounts. Guess what? Caffeine can cause erectile dysfunction. There are a lot of people out there that can drink four cups of coffee, eat a bar of chocolate and still get an erection but our bodies are all different. Where as Joe’s erection may not be affected by caffeine Bob’s is. Caffeine is a highly addictive drug and eliminating it from our life may be next to impossible. Perhaps the best solution is to reduce the amount of caffeine we intake. Drink decaf coffee and soda. Reduce the amount of chocolate we eat. Is that a huge sacrifice when the end result may be that we can now get an erection?

An 8oz. cup of coffee has 135mg of caffeine, an 8oz. cup of tea (varies by type) about 50mg, a 12oz. can of soda has 30-60+mg of caffeine, 1 cup Häagen-Dazs® Coffee Ice Cream has 58mg of caffeine and 1 milk chocolate Hershey® Bar has 10mg of caffeine. Dark chocolate has about twice as much caffeine as milk chocolate. It is generally recommended that the average person intake no more than 300mg of caffeine per day but if the amount of caffeine we are taking is affecting the strength of our erection less caffeine is probably a better thing.

We wake up in the morning and have 2 cups of coffee. On the way to work we stop at the coffee shop and get a latte. Mid-morning we have another coffee. With lunch we have a soda. In the afternoon a soda and a chocolate bar. Another cup of coffee after dinner and you have consumed about 785mg of caffeine. Not to mention all the incidental caffeine you ingested through out the day.

If drinking decaf coffee instead of regular coffee would end your erectile dysfunction would you do it? I would!

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