What do you think

I have been PEing for about 2 months, mostly just out of curiosity at first, and now still doing it because I have seen (or felt) the positive effects in the bedroom. I haven’t measured yet but I am encouraged by what I am feeling during sex with my wife of 15 years. EQ has gone to a place I might question whether I have ever been before or at least in years. My question to the members here is have any of you tried if eliminating artificial sweeteners from your diet? I had been PEing for about a month with not much notice from my wife other than having more staying power and the return of morning wood.

My wife has MS and I was doing some research for her regarding MS and artificial sweeteners, during my research I read somewhere (can’t remember where) about a possible link between ED and artificial sweeteners (more precisely Diet Soft Drinks). After reading that I decided to stop drinking “Diet” for a while and see if there was something to this. Well I don’t know for sure (do to timing of this decision and my PEing) but I have had the hardest longest lasting erections I have had in years. My wife even commented about it (saying, after taking it in her hand and squeezing a little, I better watch how I use that thing, I could hurt somebody). 1 week after going off the “Diet Stuff” I was being regularly (nightly) woke up in the middle of the night with night wood so hard I just couldn’t believe it. In reading through the posts here I read about caffeine and it’s effects on girth, so I decided after years of being on caffeine to stop or severely restrict my caffeine intake. Then it finally happened, my wife and I had sex and during sex she commented that it felt different that it felt bigger around. After sex she came back from the bathroom and said “yep definitely bigger, I am feeling a little burning (stretched) sensation down there.”

I don’t know if it’s the PE or the PE coupled with the diet modifications, but I am one satisfied customer and so is the wife. After she commented about the size I let her in the the whole PE thing, she was very encouraging and surprised that it could be made bigger. You have to love a wife who says “you are big enough now, don’t get to much bigger or it will really hurt.” I told her that this kind of thing doesn’t happen over night but for her to tell me if it gets uncomfortable and I’ll slow down and try to start cementing.. Well, maybe after just a little more. It is especially encouraging to drop the towel after a shower and have the wife eyes immediately lock onto the package and comment on how it hanging, needless to say I am hooked.

So, that’s my story after 2 months of PEing, I will be measuring at the end of the this PE month to check for gains. But if I never gain an inch I’ll take the increased EQ and run. If you are currently drinking Diet Caffeinated pop, I will testify that I and my wife noticed a difference after I got off that stuff. It might have been the PEing or both but she has definitely noticed a difference. On another side note I have noticed a dramatic change in my mood, I went from always feeling on edge or irritable to being very calm, relaxed and much more confident.

Best Regards and Good Luck,
Beer_Me

The court is still out on artificial sweeteners this would also include splendah as well. I never heard that it may be a contributor to ED. However I quit taking the stuff about 3 1/2 years ago. About the same time I started doing PE. From that point erection improved and yes, I had complete ED when I started doing PE.

Likely your results are from doing PE itself, you’re likely experiencing newbie gains.

From what I read on this site about diet sodas is that the caffeine in them is a blood vessel constrictor. The artificial sweetener used in them makes this constriction even worse.

I wish I could get my hands on it now, but I read a very interesting study recently suggesting that diet drinks, even consumed in average quantities, contribute to the generation of diabetes and some other nasty stuff. It may not be in fact the sweetener; could be the minute amounts of whatever the hell else they put in these drinks.

KP is correct about caffeine in that it is a constrictor. There is caffeine in so many soft drinks. Read your labels and/or calculate how much caffeine you intake a day.

I seem to recall reading a medical study last year that diet drinks spike insulin. So I can believe they could at least contribute to diabetes if one were pre-disposed to that. I wish I could find it again as I’d link to it if I could. Perhaps we read the same study?

Even aside from the artificial sweetner thing I think Zane is right. The typical American diet is not really good for a healthy sexual response or pleasure.

So have anyone else of you experienced this regarding caffeine? I’m pretty heavily addicted and (more like caffeine-crackhead addicted from time to time)

I’m not sure how much caffeine is safe it is in a lot of foods occurring naturally. All I know is that it begins to deplete vitamin “D” at about 300mg. It leaches calcium and is not recommended for individuals with high blood pressure due to the sudden spike in blood pressure that it causes.

beer-me,

Neat first post, and congratulations to the response to your efforts.

I’m already cutting back on coffee due to my stomach (stress). Maybe this is another reason.

I only had one cup today, no coffee in the morning and I, at least I think I, noticed better flaccid hang and involuntary (I know there’s a better word) hard-ons.

I did though have 250mg Taurine, 30mg Guarana, 15mg Ginseng and 15mg Caffeine from an effervescent tablet (I have no idea what that means but I googled “brustablett” :D “)

SevenAndBeyond,

My flaccid hang was one of the very first things I and the wife noticed. The little guy seemed to not be so timid. Let me know if you continue to notice any other changes. My personal experience was with Diet Caffeinated soft drinks, so I cannot comment regarding coffee. But I seem to have noticed a better response when stretching and jelqing as well, seems much more pliable since restricting my caffeine intake. Sometimes I swear I can actually see the ligaments stretching as my hand slowly moves a little further from my body, it must be an optical illusion but it actually looks like I can see it stretching. Also no red spots after jelqing, either a factor from the caffeine restriction or gaining a better technique. Anyway, those of you that were in the same boat as me (hooked on Diet Caffeinated beverages) or a heavy coffee drinker that has restricted caffeine intake please post your experience here. So others can glean from your experiences as well.

Best Regards,
Beer_me

effervescent tablet = brustablett = you put the pill in water and it fizzes and dissolves