Humming increases NO as well. Maybe you should hum after taking Listerine for a while? I thought one of Listerine's main (unwritten) selling points was that it helps with sex (smell, prophylaxis for STIs).
The physical performance kind. Conversely beet root, L-Citruline, and supplemental NO are commonly used for ED. That’s why medications like tadalafil and sildenafil work. NO relaxes your blood vessels and increases blood flow generally.
> if anything, meds for high blood pressure come with negative effects on that
It’s really a mixed bag.
Recall that Sildenafil (aka brand name Viagra) was originally developed to treat high blood pressure. Turns out that while it does lower blood pressure, it’s really good for improving erections.
I was mixing up correlation and causation, which is also some kind of irony my tired/jet lagged brain is too foggy to work out.
Correlation has no causation direction so you are absolutely right.
What I meant is that ED can be caused by hypertension, so if you get ED you should start checking your blood pressure. AFAIK chronic bad sleep doesn’t CAUSE high blood pressure in the same way. Not sleeping well will elevate your blood pressure, but not make it chronically worse. Put differently, if you have trouble sleeping at night, that doesn’t mean you have elevated risk of high blood pressure when rested.
But yeah, if you have high blood pressure (as I do), getting good sleep makes a huge difference in your numbers.