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Dr. Anne Troung: How Stem Cell Therapy is Revolutionizing Erectile Dysfunction Treatment - 90% Success Rate | #125

• Leah Piper, Dr. Willow Brown, Dr. Anne Truong • Season 3 • Episode 125

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Want to know what really works for ED without relying on the little blue pill? Dr. Anne Truong breaks down cutting-edge natural treatments that are transforming men's sexual health. From stem cell therapy to lifestyle tweaks that actually work, this episode is packed with solutions you won't hear about at your regular doctor's office.

💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

  • The breakthrough stem cell treatment that's showing a 90% success rate
  • Why your diet and sleep matter more than you think for erectile function
  • Real talk about ED in younger men (it's more common than you think)
  • Natural alternatives that target the root cause, not just symptoms
  • The truth about marijuana, smoking, and sexual function

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Leah:

Welcome back, Pleasure Seeker. We are your hosts, Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown, and we are so excited for this guest today.

Willow:

I know today we have Dr. Anne Truong, who is an expert in ED and she just has so much wisdom to share with you. It's kind of insane. You're gonna want to take notes on this episode, like grab a pen and paper because there's just so much to learn. If you are either suffering from ED or Looking for, um, to help somebody who has been suffering with ED, whether you are working with them hands on or not, there is actually so much that you can do. And so tune in, turn on and fall in love with Anne. She is a wealth of wisdom and loves to empower men and women to have more sexual confidence in their life.

Leah:

That's right. She's got a book. She's got a podcast. We're going to put all those resources in the show notes and, um, Our transcript of these episodes are included, so you can always take notes by downloading the transcript. Take a look at your favorite podcast app and see if you can find it. And of course, you can always email us at support at sexreimagined. com if you need added resources. let's dive in with Anne.

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Leah:

Welcome, Anne. We're so happy to have you on the show. we've had the privilege of talking, with Dr. Anne a couple of times through her podcast and her summit, and it's a real treat to have her on our program.

Anne:

Well, I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having me.

Willow:

Yeah, I always love talking with other doctors, especially medical doctors, about some of these topics that we tackle from a, from a holistic, from an ancient sexual arts perspective, but it's always good to get more perspectives. And, you know, Dr. Anne has written a fabulous book, which if ED is something that you have been curious about how to support someone with or, struggling with yourself, she is a wealth of information when it comes to, um, natural remedies that you can utilize. And I was just saying to Dr. Anne right before we hopped on, I want to get your book because I've got my own slew of natural remedies, but I'm sure there's something in there that some little nugget that I can learn that I can add to my, you know, my repertoire.

Leah:

your book is called Erectile Dysfunction Fix. So we're talking penises today, folks.

Anne:

Erectile Dysfunction Fit without medication or without surgery using our natural technique and also your own stem cell to help repair the blood flow.

Willow:

Tell us, I'm so curious about that. Let's dive into that right away.

Leah:

stem cells.

Willow:

How do you use the stem cells to support men in getting their erections back?

Anne:

Well, it's already in our body. It is already working in our body. Let's say for instance, if you cut yourself, you know, on your hand, right? Well, this blood oozes out. Well, in the blood, there are platelets. These are cells that look like a little balloon. They comprise 1 percent of your whole blood. And what their job is to go in, and clot the blood so you stop bleeding and then their job is to say to the other cells in the blood hey there's an injury here you need to start healing and it honed the other cell to come to start the healing process so it's called the wound healing process it's what we go through anytime we have a cut either by accident or by surgery well We've learned that if we put, whole blood in a wound, like an open wound, like if somebody is paraplegic and have an open wound from, a non healing wound, that blood start healing. So, then we go, what's responsible for that? So, it's the platelet. That's already in your blood. That's already there. Wow. How we do it now is that in that we started discovering that around 1998 and then now in 2024, what I do is I draw out your blood from a vein as if you go to the lab and we put in a centrifuge and the centrifuge spins the blood separated by the different layers like red blood cell, white blood cell, and then the plasma, which is just the fluid, the protein, and then we take out the platelet. Uh, we isolate out the platelets and that is re injected into the penis and that's what that starts to repair the process of that tissue. So when it, when a tissue is repaired, what happens is that when the tissue is not healing, it's repaired, the cells start making more blood vessels. There's little micro blood vessels that start to lay down, that lay down the foundation for, uh, blood vessels that start as micro and then it start to be bigger, so that way it increases, uh, blood flow to the area. You can only heal if you have more blood flow to the area. As with anything, a broken bone, hair, anything. Anything that needs healing, you need blood flow to bring in the nutrient from your blood to the area. to start healing. So essentially, it's a booster treatment,

Willow:

yeah. And so where, where does the injection go into? Is it like under the scrotum? Is it into the

Anne:

No, no, right, right, right into the shaft of the penis. Uh, so.

Willow:

of it. It can go anywhere in the center.

Anne:

Um, well, you want to avoid 12 o'clock because that's where the nerve and the arteries are, uh, for the penis. You want to avoid 6 o'clock. That's where the urethra is. So anywhere between like, you know, 3 and 9 o'clock, if the penis was like a clock, kind of like the left and the right side. Kind of the same area that men do when they do trimix injection. All right. So, uh, the injection. Uh, Trimix injection is an injection that has three medication in it that help a man with erection. But that's the last resort, last resort. I don't, I don't

Willow:

Stem cell is

Anne:

a lot of

Willow:

more natural and

Anne:

Right. More natural. It treat the cause of the problem. Because why men have ED is because they have decreased blood flow and the stem cell, uh, increase more blood flow down. Now it takes time. It takes, it takes about three months to six months to really, uh, see the result. But, you know, as in anything worthwhile, it takes time, right? But it, it, it treats the cause of the problem of why a man has ED. And then on top of that, we also, uh, coach the man into, you know, diet change, exercise, stress, and, uh, sleep. As well too, but that's how stem cell is really harnessing something you already have, you already, it's already working and healing and then just putting it into an area that needs healing,

Willow:

And then, yeah, and also, like, how many stem cell treatments does a man usually need to get in that three month period? Mm.

Anne:

So, uh, to answer what is a success rate, success rate is almost like 90%.

Leah:

Wow.

Anne:

why the 10, the other 10 percent is that not everybody heal, uh, at the same pace, and there are other, uh, considerations like is there smoking involved, alcohol involved, those slows down healing as well as being diabetic as well. So, not everybody can have this, and then to answer your question, uh, Willow, is that, um, uh, is it a one treatment? if you have severe ED, Uh, meaning if you're not responding to Viagra or, Cialis, and you don't have morning, uh, wood anymore, and you're diabetic, high blood pressure, you're, you know, in your late 60s, that's probably severe ED, you're gonna need probably three treatments. And then, uh, if you're, you know, early 50s, fairly healthy, just have high blood pressure, then it's probably just need one treatment. Again, it depends upon how the man take care of his body, you know, your

Willow:

So you're looking at the whole thing when somebody comes in with ED, you're looking at their, you're running labs on them, you're looking at their blood pressure, their cholesterol, you're looking at all these

Anne:

I love that. Yep. Yep. We, we do a comprehensive, uh, blood work before they even set the door, uh, set the foot in the door. That way I, I can look at their hormones. I can tell how they're healing. I can tell if their body is stressed. Um, look at their liver, their kidney, their, uh, cholesterol. All of that because I'll take into consideration because I want everybody to get better, but not everybody is, is, uh, you know, is able to heal as well. So, and I want to make sure that we have straightforward conversation saying, you know, we can do this. But likely chance that you may not get a response. Especially if you're a diabetic and you're smoking. And I honestly discourage people from getting it they're still smoking because smoke, if you, if you smoke, you might as well say goodbye to your erection. that

Leah:

the marijuana too, Anne?

Willow:

us more about that. Yeah.

Anne:

Yeah, well, smoking is very inflammatory to the lining of the blood vessels. All right. And so when you, uh, disrupt the lining, but think of blood vessels like a pipe and the lining of the blood vessel is kind of like a soft glistening, uh, cell layer, one cell layer, very, very thin, two micrometer, all right. And, uh, very thin, but that cell layer can be disrupted by smoking. by, uh, nicotine. And what happened is that that cell start to be, uh, uh, to leak. They start to have leaks. So it, so therefore when it start to have leak, the pressure is not as good and then toxin in your body start leaking into your tissue. Alright, so that's why it's bad because not only you don't have enough blood flow, you start to have the toxin that's just supposed to be filtered out of your body get, you know, absorbed in the body. Uh,

Leah:

What about marijuana, Anne? Does marijuana, smoky marijuana have the same effect?

Anne:

Well, as you know, there are many different type of marijuana, many different breed, but different plants and so forth, so that's a big generality, right? It's a big generality, but it all depends upon the doses, uh, uh, how much you smoke. Right. If you, if you, yeah,

Willow:

bong rips

Anne:

all right, exactly. I mean, if you're smoking like this much, you know, uh, that like twice of that a day. Yeah. Because again, you, it's, it's, it's foreign. Anything that's foreign, non organic that you bring into your body, your body's going to react to it. All

Willow:

Now, when you say non

Anne:

on the weekend,

Willow:

what you really mean is not endogenous, right?

Anne:

right, right. It's

Willow:

because there could be organic marijuana out there and organic tobacco,

Anne:

yeah, right. That's not, that, that's not cellular. That's not organically cellular.

Leah:

I'm also, is it right to assume that if someone was eating edibles, Versus smoking. Edibles wouldn't have the same effect on the blood vessels. It's actually the smoking and the inhalation that is problematic.

Anne:

Well, it's, uh, that's a good question. That is to be determined. There is a new research, uh, uh, that has come out that, and I, and I did release a, an episode on my podcast about, about marijuana and sex. And right now that we do know that smoking too much of marijuana is not good.

Willow:

right,

Anne:

And when I say too much, it's like, you know, if you're smoking a joint every day, you know, and, uh, and so on the edible is still up in the air right now. Again, depending on what type of edible, how much edible you, uh, you take, and then also your, your existing, uh, your, your medical condition. You know, if you have high blood pressure, you're obese, you have high cholesterol and your diabetes, you don't exercise, yeah, it will affect you. So it's almost like, what's the vessel that is in there? But if you're healthy, it may not affect you as much.

Willow:

Right, exactly. The other thing about marijuana and high use of it is it's an estrogenic plant, so it will, may not directly cause ED, but it can definitely lower and diminish your, your libido if you're in a male body. So, um, you know, using it sparingly can actually enhance your libido and your sex drive and the sensation of it all. Yeah. But, um, yeah, women can really get more, um, more horny on weed for sure, but, um, Men, you know, it's just, it's all about moderation and balance, pretty much.

Anne:

I'll moderate. But, but Leah, you're right. For women, marijuana doesn't have the adverse side effects as men. Because for women, it does increase their libido, and it does actually increase their ability to get orgasm better. Because women and men process, uh, uh, arousal differently in the brain area, as well as the blood flow distribution too, right? Because a man needs to have This is, this study is like, he needs to have 400 percent more blood flow into his penis for it to be erect

Willow:

Then a woman's

Anne:

400 percent more, yeah, than a woman

Willow:

percent more blood flow.

Leah:

So

Willow:

That's very interesting.

Leah:

that prompts another question. Back to the platelets. How much of an erection? Can someone hope for right? I mean there's different varying degrees like you said of how much blood is actually circulating to the penis There's the purple burster rock hard, and then there's kind of the semi thick right you got more of a semi. I mean, I'm sure this is all dependent on what the patient's Blood flow is currently, and they're not happy with the amount of blood flow. They're feeling too, I hate some of this language, like limp or flaccid. They're just two terrible words. It must bring up so much discomfort and shame for men, but they're still good descriptors. So when someone has this treatment and they are been having a really hard time with blood flow, can they expect 30 percent increase, 50%, 70%? What's the average?

Anne:

well, they, they, you know, with the full treatment and if, and if they work on their diet and their exercise level and stress reduction, they should expect a functional erection. When I say functional erection, penetration, ejaculation, The whole thing. We have seen men that have prostate surgery, and this is the worst a man can have, is that, you know, he gets surgery, they go in there, cut out the prostate, and cut it out, and, and 95 percent of them have ED because the nerve to the, uh, to the penis goes on top of the prostate, as well as blood vessel. So not only you affect the erection by nerve, but also by blood vessel. So 90, almost 99 percent of them have ED, but we have seen men resume to have erection and to

Willow:

With the stem cell

Anne:

penis with the stem cell treatment, even after

Willow:

this. This is very exciting. Now,

Leah:

I'm like, hallelujah,

Willow:

know, I know. Now, what,

Leah:

many men suffer.

Willow:

yeah, and what about like penis pumps in conjunction with stem cell, uh, work.

Anne:

Oh, it's, it's worked synergistically. It, it is like putting kerosene in the fire. It worked together. So our recommended regimen when you do the stem cell is penis pump, nitric oxide, uh, nitric oxide supplement. And, we also tell them to use the penis ring keep the blood flow in there, keep it expanded, uh, as well. Uh, yep. and then we stress, stress, stress, you know, a diet because, what you eat is what is in the blood. Right.

Leah:

Yeah, say more about what that diet is. what do you recommend people eat?

Anne:

Yeah. Well, Mediterranean diet, which is really more of more vegetables. I tell the guys and you know, on your plate. Put three quarter vegetables and the rainbow color as much as you can. Uh, um, and have one, one serving of carb a day and lean meats like fish, uh, chicken, pork, and then red meat, you know, twice a week or once a week. Um, and you can have, you're allowed to have a glass of wine a day. So the Mediterranean diet has been endorsed by the American Diabetic Association, as well as American Heart Association for decreasing, uh, heart attack risks and stroke risks as well as diabetes. Uh, and it's very, very easy to do. It's essentially, that's it. It's really vegetable. Yeah. And it's healthy, it's, uh, it's delicious, it lowers your blood sugar, it also lowers your risk of heart attack, uh, as well, and it helps with your erection. Uh, and you don't have to, it's not that, it's not like Paleo or Keto, it's not that strict. You're allowed carbs, but, you know, I tell patients don't eat anything in a box or a bag. Yeah, yeah, in small doses, yeah. Don't eat anything in a bag or a box, um, And you know, less red meat.

Willow:

yeah, if somebody, that's great, on the diet, I often will get people to do actual liver cleanse to get their diet kind of reset. Yeah, and to get all the, Exogenous estrogens that are coming into everybody's system these days based on the toxins in our environment, plastic water bottles, soaps, detergents, inorganic food. I mean, we're really swimming in a lot of exogenous estrogens already as it is. Plastics and stuff. So doing a liver cleanse is a, is a great way to get all of that out and to reset your diet toward a Mediterranean or, I do say paleo to a lot of people, um, but I say, you know, but you can eat a little bit of carbs. It's basically the same as what you're saying. Dr. Anne, and I'm curious. To like, you're in Virginia, what if somebody is in New York or California? How can they find somebody who does stem cell replacement in their area? And can they also work with you virtually? Or how do you work exactly?

Anne:

Yeah, so we can see patients, uh, virtually, as well. Uh, and, but the treatment, they have to come to the office in Virginia, which is an hour right outside of DC. And so a lot of patients kind of come in, in the morning, get the treatment, they fly out that night. Um, and so we make it so that it's very, very easy to get it. And most of the time, it's one treatment. You know, men that are listening to this, or their partner listening to this, if you start early, you're probably just going to need one treatment, right? And if you wait until 10 years or 20 years of ED, And you've been popping ED pills for like 10 years, it's going to take a while. It's going to take more than one treatment, right? So we see men in their fifties, sixties, when they maybe have a year or two of ED and they don't want to take meds. Those are the ones that are winners, you know, one treatment and then they just tweak their, um, their diet a little bit, exercise a little more. They're good. Oftentimes, we also recommend that they continue on testosterone replacement, uh, therapy because, uh, testosterone, uh, yeah, testosterone drop 1 percent a year after the age of 35 for a man. And, um, the, the penis tissue, uh, need testosterone to help with the erection as well. So the penis tissue had more receptors in there. Than any other tissue for testosterone. So when your testosterone level is low, it is not primarily responsible for the ED, but it can contribute. So that's what I'm saying. So if a man has ED, if he gets testosterone replacement therapy, it may not correct his, uh, his ED, but it certainly will contribute to the erection getting better.

Willow:

Mm.

Anne:

You know? So there are other factors as well.

Willow:

Go ahead,

Leah:

do you stand on medication? Um, would you recommend or not recommend Cialis or Viagra as, as a treatment?

Willow:

and Vegar are the same thing, correct? Or

Leah:

I think they're different.

Anne:

Yeah, they, they, they work the same thing. They, uh, they work the same way, uh, because they inhibit, uh, they inhibit the, the remover of psychic, uh, GMP. Uh, they work the same way, just different name. Um, Cialis is just longer lasting. Cialis can work up to like 30 hours. Viagra lasts only 6 hours. And the onset of Viagra is within, uh, 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Versus Vyagra, the onset could be like from one to two hours. So it's a different mechanic, but it works the same way. That's why Seattle sometime is prescribed daily, uh, and Vyagra is prescribed as, uh, needed. Well. I'm, more of a proponent of, I'll tell you why, is that, um, I'm against, uh, medication because, uh, I feel that medication should band aid the problem and not treating the source of the problem. If a man has ED, Right? And if you have ED, you need to get blood work. It's the first thing you need to do, get blood work, because it could be the first sign that you have diabetes. I can't tell you how many patients I see in your office and I'll ask them, you know, they would never had a blood work in like years. And we do blood work and they have diabetes. I mean, they have blood sugar that is off the roof. So oftentimes, get blood work first to see if you have high blood sugar, you have high cholesterol, maybe your kidney's not working well, maybe your liver's not working well because you've been imbibing too much alcohol, maybe you're anemic. So all those factors play a role into, and then you can be low in testosterone as well. You could be low in thyroid. So all, we can find all that through, uh, Blood work. I'm not a proponent of a man using, uh, ED medication to first line treatment because it's almost like, uh, um, patting, uh, you know, putting a band aid in a bleeding wound. There's a reason why you have ED. Find out the reason. And most of the time it's treatable. It's either treatable through diet, exercise, or just lifestyle modification. I would tell you the top three reasons why a man has ED is because of poor diet, is because low testosterone, and also high blood pressure, and obesity. And lifestyle, I'm talking about alcohol and smoking. the two main things, alright. And those are all modifiable. They all can change. All you have to do is change your diet and your exercise and stop doing the bad stuff, and then you can literally reverse ed. We have seen men that, so I also have an online coaching program as well where, where they don't come to my office, but we coach'em on things that they need to do to, to get, uh, help with Ed. And we're seeing men that ha have Ed and all they did was just kind, uh, uh. Eat better, exercise a little more, use the penis pump, and they're starting to see morning wood coming back again. So, my point is that the medication is a band aid, and what happens when you take medication over a period of time, the problem while you had ED never been addressed, so the ED gets worse. So, what, what men when they take ED medication is the, the spans about three to seven years when they're going to notice that, uh, the medication doesn't work anymore. Either that, they escalate the dosage where they used to start with 25 milligrams and they go up to 100 milligrams. Some even take 200 milligrams and these Viagra and Cialis have very severe side effects. One of the side effects, you can stroke out, you can die

Willow:

I was gonna say, isn't it

Anne:

the medication.

Willow:

if you have that? Yeah.

Anne:

Well, actually it lowers your blood pressure so low that you pass out. That's why you get dizziness and headache. Uh, because it's a vasodilator. So it opens up blood vessels. And, uh, so, uh, then, so then you, the reason why you have heart attack is because you're not getting enough pressure to, uh, blood, blood to your heart. That's why you get a heart attack. And you have a stroke because you're not getting blood up You're not getting enough pressure up to your brain. That's why you, you have, um, a stroke. And then, but that's one of the side effects that you hear a lot about the blue vision, the headache, the dizziness, the heartburn, the, um, the back pain, uh, um, and the bloating, the heartburn that men have, uh, because of that. But a lot of men live with that. They live with those symptoms every time they take Viagra, because they're able to have. And erection. So my, my, my point is I encourage men. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's a quick fix, right? Yeah.

Willow:

define erectile dysfunction as you see it, and also as the medical industry currently sees it, because I have had clients come to me who are like, I have ED, and then, you know, once we kind of get in there with them, I'm like, you don't have ED. Like, fine. It's all in your fucking head. Yeah.

Leah:

Willow. Yeah, it's like, I don't have erections, really?

Willow:

yeah,

Leah:

it right now.

Willow:

is looking like an erection to me. I'm not

Leah:

Maybe you're just bored at home and you're not getting an erection, but when you're right here in this office, um, what part of your erection aren't you recognizing?

Willow:

Yeah, so, so I would just love, like, what is, what is the definition, you know?

Anne:

the diagnostic definition and the medical diagnosis is that inability for a man to have a functional erection that he's not able to penetrate.

Leah:

Hmm,

Anne:

able to penetrate, uh, and it bothers him, then it is ED. So, that, so that, when it says it bothers him, it eliminates, it's just a one time thing. It eliminates, oh, you know, uh, just, you know, last week I couldn't get a full erection I couldn't penetrate, but this week I can. So, it gets to a point where it bothers him, and that he's not able to penetrate. So it's really the rigidity is meaning you're not able to penetrate. Right. Well. Sometimes you can have a semi rigid, you know, penis and you can still penetrate. And once you penetrate, you will get more, more hard, right? So it's the degree of whether it bothers him or not. So, and, and what you're describing, I see that too. And you know, a lot of men, the studies have shown that 87 percent of men feel that their penis is small. When an average sized penis, accounting for all races and all age, is five inch. Five inch and a quarter inch. Five inch and one quarter. It's the average, right? And all men think they need to be eight inches. That's not the case. And the average girth is four and a half inch.

Willow:

and not to mention the,

Anne:

it

Willow:

penis that, the length that we see is just kind of half of what's there. There's more penis inside the body that, that people are not accounting for.

Leah:

Right. With the perineum, when that gets erect, I mean, there's a lot of underground penis happening.

Willow:

Yeah. Underground. The underground penis. You guys, a new podcast is born.

Leah:

Yes. Yes. We know you have eight inches. Two of them are

Willow:

Yes, that's right. Uh

Leah:

Let's celebrate those

Anne:

if the guy, uh, no, you're right, you're, you're right. So I don't know, but some, some men will reach out to me and say they have ED too. And then we'll ask them, Oh yeah, I can get erection. I can have sex with my, my wife. And it's like, what's the part that's ED? Well, I can't do it, you know, five times a day. So they think that's Ed, you know, or they, or, or that they, yeah. They can't do it. Or that once they ejaculate, they, they can't have another one and 10 minutes later.

Willow:

yeah, or that they can't keep it for a long time. They feel like they can't sustain long enough. I feel like in those situations, um, it's often because they're, they're going too hard too fast. They're like losing their sensitivity because they're just like,

Leah:

Banging

Willow:

fest. Yeah. And they're not like paying attention to, but they're afraid to go slow because that they're afraid they're going to lose it. So there's all this like fear. There's a cycle involved, the psychological cycle of like, if I go too slow to really feel the

Leah:

there's not enough

Willow:

might lose it. So I got to go really fast and hard, but then that numbs them out and doesn't feel that great to the woman. So then there's this whole dynamic going on. That's not conducive to staying hard longer.

Leah:

Which leads me to a question, Anne. When you get someone's blood work back, and their lifestyle quiz, or whatever, looks like they're, they're at their optimum, do you then go, this is more in your head, There's, there's anxiety that's coming up. You're so afraid that you're not going to be able to penetrate, that you, that you block your body from being able to relax into sexuality. How much do you see as psychological with some of these guys who are coming into the office?

Anne:

Right, you know, when a guy has ED, there's some psychological component to that anyway. But luckily, we do have an objective way where we can determine if the ED is physical, uh, or not. So, if he comes in, I can actually, Do an injection of the Trimix, which is a medication where I inject into the shaft of the penis. And, and then he just, you know, I haven't just looked at some magazines or something. It will actually help him get an erection without being with a partner, uh, or being around. So it gives him an erection. And then I look, and then I use an ultrasound. It's the same ultrasound machine that you look at babies on a, on a, you know, a mom's stomach. Well, I look at that and I look at the penis when it's erect. It has to be fully erect and we can determine the pressure of the blood in the penis where the pressure is enough for it to create an erect penis. And we can look at the veins, we can look at the arteries, and we look at how the Uh, blood, uh, the blood fills in the, uh, the tissue of the penis. Okay, so the penis is like a sponge and it fills up with blood and so we see all that. There are numbers that we can measure with the, uh, with the pressure. Uh, the blood vessels, the pressure in the penis that can determine whether he has a low or high pressure in the penis that can contribute to ED. So that objective test is called the penile Doppler ultrasound. So by doing that, we can say, okay, there's enough blood flow in your penis that you should be able to get, uh, an, erection. If you're not Then, then it's most likely more psychological, so I want to make sure I do everything to rule out physical causes before, you know, I say psychological, but having said that, I want to also say that if a guy has ED that is due to physical causes, there is also a component of the psychological component in there as well, because he's going to be worried that That, hey, am I going to get erect, uh, uh, you know, I didn't get erect last time. I don't want to try again. So he's thinking about it as well, too. So there's that, that part of it, once we work with men and they're able to have erection, he has to overcome that aspect as well. that's why we treat both. We teach them that. and then we also, advise them to do like meditation or, you know, the app to help with calming, uh, the heart rate and the sense. I, I recommend men use the Muse Band. Have you heard of the Muse Band? Uh, even women too. It's actually a device that you put on over your head. Like this looks like a headband. It's actually a measure uh, brainwave activity, like an EEG, almost like it measured your brainwave and it can sense if you are, uh, stressed. Uh, and you're anxious, and by those brainwaves that, that is measured on the band, you can actually get feedback, and it gives you as a, as, that's a biofeedback, and it, and you, you hear it in, in, uh, your headset, and you, you hear either chirping birds, or you can hear silence. So you want to hear silence instead of chirping birds. So you can literally train yourself, uh, Muse, M U S E, M U S

Willow:

kind of like the Heart Math Institute has those

Anne:

exactly,

Willow:

you put on your body and you can make sure you're in coherence between your heart and your brain. That would be another good biofeedback tool for

Anne:

yeah, absolutely, yeah, you guys, you guys can consider that, doing, working with your client on, they have training classes, the Muse company have training classes on that, where, where the men and the women can wear that, it will give them feedback, whether, you know, they're anxious or stressed, you know, when they're having, uh, intercourse.

Willow:

I'm going to check that out.

Leah:

it seems that there are a number of treatments, and I'm, I apologize that I can't remember the names of them, where they're using sound waves to help build, I think it's collagen, or maybe it's blood flow in the penis. I know that a lot of them are correcting Peyronie's, did I say that right? Peyronie's disease?

Anne:

Yep, Peroni is a curvature. Uh

Leah:

Yeah, what are you, do you use any of those treatments? Um, I always want to call them lasers, but they're really working with sound wave, they're not working with light.

Anne:

Right. So what they're called is they're called shockwave machine. Okay, they're called shockwave machine. So there are two types of shockwave machine. Uh, one is called focus. The other one is called pulse shockwave. And there are two differences. It's like a Ferrari and a Toyota Camry. All right. Totally different engine, totally different mechanics. So the focus shockwave machine is, works like more like a laser. It's deep, it has a lot of high energy, and it's targeted. That's the one I use, and that's the one that's been written in research paper. Uh, hundreds of research paper have said that, that focus shockwave help with, uh, ED. That's the Farari. That's the Farari, right. And then you, you, you have the knockoff version, which is called the Pulse Shockwave Therapy that you hear like Gaines Wave or the, um, Eclipse or the other one. Those are more pulse. Now, those are very good for like using it on tissue, like your trigger point or for like area, the muscle tension, but it doesn't go deep enough or the energy is not strong enough. to create, uh, uh, increasing blood flow. So it's, it's just a little bit better than a massager because it's actually classified as the same as a massager. Uh, so that's why you can use it without a prescription versus the focus shop where you need a doctor to use it.

Willow:

Got it.

Leah:

How much are those treatments and how many treatments does somebody need to see results? And is that an ongoing treatment for every year they should be doing it? Or they do it once and

Anne:

uh, well, they do it once and we usually do it together with the stem cell, the platelets, uh, stem cell, uh, so it's the same time. So they need about a six treatment, about one week apart. Some need 12 treatment, which is, um, we do six and then we take a break for a month and then we do another six,

Willow:

Now six of the focus, but not six of the stem cell.

Anne:

No, no, six of the focus only, but the stem cell is one treatment, maybe three. Uh, but if you start early, one treatment, uh, and you only do three if, you know, you have very severe, uh, ED, um, at all. So, I want to differentiate that because you're going to hear a lot about shockwave, but you got to delineate whether it is, uh, focus shockwave or pulse shockwave. They're very interchangeable and they do not work the, um, the same.

Willow:

Okay.

Leah:

Okay, um, what about ejaculation? So, you know, we're of the world of Tantra and Taoism, and so there's ancient practices that we often suggest that for with men who are suffering from ED, for them to regenerate is to monitor how much they are ejaculating. We want them to be sexual more often, so that they're actually feeling their sexual energy, they're engaging with their turn on, they're engaging with their arousal. But instead of squandering it, they actually reabsorb the life force energy by bringing all that, um, energy back up into their system by not ejaculating every time they're sexual. Have you explored any of that? Have you heard of that sort of thing? And what are your thoughts?

Anne:

Well, if you really look at the research and, and, and I actually did an episode like no FOP. Now is it, is it called November? You know, no ejaculation November, right? And I did an episode on that. So the research has really kind of showed that, you know, if you hold ejaculation, it doesn't make you more, um, Uh, uh, Viral, or it doesn't make your erection better or anything like that. Uh, it, it will, it will make you probably more, uh, aroused and increase libido, but as in the quality of the Penis function, not so much. And so, uh, so base it off the research, but I'm more of a proponent, you know, if a man finds that his, his erections better, his libido is better, his performance better, go for it. You know, I, and does it work for him? And I don't see any problem And not ejaculate. One of them, my very good friend and mentor, he would go for like three months without ejaculating. He multiple orgasm and he would do, he would have intercourse with his wife, you know, two, three times a day, but he would go for three months without ejaculating. And he's a big proponent, uh, of that. And, uh, I know my, my husband, he is, uh, 62. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.

Willow:

I think it, I think when you can master these ancient techniques, the Tantric and the Taoist techniques, I think when you can really feel the benefit of them in your body, then your beliefs start to change around that. And we all know that our beliefs create our bodies. And so we're carrying that. And so it's really, it is a tricky practice. To get very good at though, for, for some people, some people are like, I got it in, you know, a week.

Leah:

it sounds like in combination with many of your, um, interventions and of helping people, it seems like the two could really blend beautifully together because I think you're right, Willow. I think part of the power of mastering your energy allows people to shift their beliefs.

Willow:

Absolutely. Yeah. I think that, you know, again, it, and, and I love what you're saying too, Anne, about, um, you know, everyone is, is, is so different on a different track. You know, what is ED to one person might not be to another and what, um, you know, holding your, your. Semen, your semen retention in is for one person might not be to another. And so it's really about becoming the, you becoming the best doctor inside of your own body. Um, you can, you can seek out expert advice and support and guidance, of course, from experts like us, but, uh, you are the one in there. So you become the science scientists of your own physicality.

Anne:

absolutely. And you know, I, I, you know, I, I, I tell him what the research is, but at least I know there's no harmful thing if you do do that. So I'm like, Hey, to make you feel better, go for it. You know, I can tell you my husband, I wanted him to try to do this. And he's like, Oh, no way. I'm, I, I, I, I like the way I'm old fashioned. I like the way it is right now. And he's great at it. Yeah. Yeah.

Willow:

different experience. It's, you know, and that's when we're, when we're guiding men and teaching them how to have non ejaculatory orgasms. We tell them, don't look to feel the same kind of orgasm you're accustomed to. To, it's more of a full body orgasm. You know, you get it shimmering and shaking all the way up through your central column into your brain. It's not all focused in the penis when you're having, um, non ejaculatory orgasms.

Anne:

ask you this. Is there, is there a woman way of doing that? Of non ejaculatory as well?

Willow:

Yeah, there's so many different ways of having orgasms as a woman, especially because we've got all this like amazing erectile tissue that's spread out. And one of the things that Tao teaches is the non, is the orgasmic upward draw. So we can bring orgasmic energy to different places in the body, different. We can bring it into the brain, to the pineal gland, to the heart, to the throat, to open up. And, um, it's just a fun practice to explore as a woman.

Anne:

Interesting.

Leah:

Um, I think what's interesting is there's also nerve pathways that are, although we have the same, both men and women, how they run in the body are a little bit different. With a man's penis, he's got the vagus nerve, the pudendal nerve, and the pelvic nerve all running through it. Hypogastric nerve is running through the prostate gland and the anal cavity. Whereas women, we have the same nerves, but they're going to different erogenous zones. Some of them come together. Some of them are separate. So with the clitoral orgasm, you have the pedendal nerve. With the g spot orgasm, you have the pelvic nerve. With the cervix, you have the hypogastric nerve, you have the pedendal nerve, and you have the vagus nerve. So it's when you stimulate different areas of a woman's anatomy, The nerves that carry different feelings of orgasm can be separated. They can also be built upon each other. Men don't have as much variety when we're talking about the nerve experience. At least that's my understanding. What's your understanding, Anne?

Anne:

Um, well, you know, don't forget also the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. So the nerve that you're, you're pointing out are more somatic nerve. They're all somatic nerve, right? Well, except for the vagus nerve, right? Um, which is a cranial nerve. But there's, don't forget the parasympathetic and sympathetic. And, uh, so you got a lot of nervous nerve that are going to that central area because it's a very important area. So you have the autonomic nervous system, which is. Uh, you cannot control that voluntarily. And then you have the pudendo, the hypogastric, the vagus, and then you also have, uh, um, you know, you also have other essential organs in there, which is the bladder, and for a man, the prostate, right? For a woman, the woman version of the prostate, the bartholin, bartholin glands. That's her, uh, prostate, uh, uh, gland. And then you have the, uh, the urethra. So it, I call it Central Park. It's a lot of area culminating in a very small area, uh, even. And so oftentimes it is, um, controlling up here. It's what controls everything down there, right? Uh, because I have seen men that are functional, uh, physically. Everything works down there. Everything works well. But because he's so, uh, he, he has psychological ED that he believed different things that even taking Viagra and cialis doesn't even help him with erection. It's that strong. And then once, once I did the test that I mentioned to you, the Pienaar Doppler ultrasound and show him, hey, you know, everything down there is working fine. Blood works working fine. You're good. Right? And this is a 30 year old Marine, right? You know, you look at him, he's a image of health. I tell him, you're good. Everything is good. You're okay. You know, just go home, have good sex with your wife. You know, he called me up the next day and said, you all right. Yeah, I was able to get an erection and, uh, you

Willow:

I'm sure sometimes they just need Dr. Anne to tell them that they're okay, right? Yeah, just to get their head in the game.

Leah:

I'm really glad you mentioned that because I'm seeing more and more younger men in their 20s and 30s coming through my office. Worried about erectile dysfunction, believing that they have it, um, I think they're more just worried that they won't be able to maintain an erection. Uh, are you seeing younger and younger men in your office too? Can, do you think porn is, is,

Anne:

Oh, porn, uh, porn poor diet. Yeah, the porn, uh, yeah, it's really porn, the availability of porn, and the guys are vaping younger and younger now, they're playing video games, and they're eating fast food, they're not exercising, they're in front of the computer all day long, and in fact, if you sit in a chair for a man, you sit in a chair for a long time, the nerve is too Yeah, the podendal nerve goes from, you know, like underneath the scrotum and make a U turn go up to the penis. That nerve gets compressed. Use it for a long time and it can for a while to get compressed. It can actually affect your erection for use. If you're like a truck driver, you're in the car for like 8, 10 hours at a time. It compresses that nerve. So, so sitting down for a long period of time for a man or even bicycling can actually affect the nerve. So, what would the reason why we're seeing a trend, even in men, when they're young, even a decrease in testosterone, because testosterone is dependent upon diet, exercise, stress, and sleep. If you don't do any of those well, the testosterone level will decrease, especially sleep. Because your body heals physically and from 10 p. m. to 2 a. m. and psychologically from 2 a. m. to 6 a. m. And so if you don't sleep well, then your body's not going to have a chance to heal. So we're seeing men in their 20s with testosterone level as if they're in their 50s. It's because, really, lifestyle factor. So that's why blood work will tell us. All of that, I will tell us whether he's eating well. You can tell. Look at his cholesterol, look at his blood sugar. You can tell us whether the kidneys and, and, uh, liver is working well. Because if you're drinking a lot of alcohol, you can see the liver enzyme go up. Alcohol. If you drink, uh, alcohol daily on, uh, for like three months, you, it can affect the liver. And the liver can become kind of slowed down and cause like a kind of a fatty liver. So, uh, we can see the liver, we can see the kidneys. Uh, kidneys, a lot of time men don't drink as much water, uh, as well. So when, and that will affect their ejaculate volume. They don't drink enough water, uh, too. So the younger guys, if they have ED, it's more lifestyle. What they're doing with their life. There's lifestyle rather than high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, uh, or prostate problem. The older men, over 50, we see more of the, we call metabolic processes, meaning high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, prostate problem affecting their ED. But when they're younger, It's really more a porn, smoking, you know, smoking, vaping,

Willow:

Diet, lack of

Anne:

diet. Yeah. Lack of exercise.

Leah:

So a couple of people that I've worked with, it's been porn and then hair replacement stuff. The stuff that they're using, their fear of balding has been causing, that medication has been having a really adverse effect

Anne:

Yes. Yes, it does. Yes, yeah, the Finasteride, yeah, the Finasteride, uh, thing is that, you know, if young men are losing their hair, first of all, get the thyroid check, get the vitamin D, because, uh, when you, when you have hyper or hypothyroid, you will lose hair, or when you don't eat enough vegetables, you will have low vitamin D, 90%, 99 percent of us have vitamin D, because we don't eat enough vegetables in a day. I have continually low vitamin D that I have to supplement. That's it. By taking an oral supplement and it gets my level up but every man that I see has ED have low vitamin D level. All right, yeah, so you're not, if men are not eating enough vegetables, they have low vitamin D and that vitamin D also contributes to hair loss as well. So when we see a patient with hair loss, we do blood work. We make sure that their thyroid, the vitamin D level is good, uh, as well, and also testosterone level. Testosterone level can kind of, in a way, affect the density

Leah:

Doesn't high testosterone cause balding? I heard that.

Anne:

High testosterone only cause balding if it gets converted to another hormone called DHT or dihydrotestosterone.

Leah:

okay.

Anne:

So testosterones here, and then estrogen come from testosterone, right? And then testosterone can also become dihydrotestosterone, which is called DHT, which is in high level cause hair loss. And then testosterone can also become, um, I mentioned about estrogen, uh, already. Yeah. So those, those two, so testosterone is the father of estrogen. I know women, we need to know that.

Willow:

DHT is normal inside of the body, it's just when it's at extremely high levels, which could be what related to the liver or the kidneys, why it's doing

Anne:

No, actually when it's in high level, it's usually related to diet and inflammation and stress.

Leah:

Hmm. What other supplements do you recommend?

Anne:

What for, for erection or

Leah:

well, yeah, for erection, yeah. Do you recommend any herbs or

Anne:

yes. Uh,

Willow:

book. Everyone get her book, it's all

Anne:

we did, we did talk about that, but I really like Tongkat Ali, um, um, Tongkat Ali, I, Tongkat Ali,

Willow:

Oh, Tonga Ali,

Anne:

yes, um,

Leah:

that so I can put it in the show notes.

Anne:

All right.

Willow:

T O T A N G, a T A N

Anne:

I thought it was T O, but maybe

Willow:

could be T O, no you could be

Anne:

All right. No, it is. It's a T O N G K A T and then Ali, A L I. All right. So we have a supplement here called Libido Plus and it has Tongkat Ali and has Tribulus. It's spelled T R I B U L U S.

Willow:

Tribulus boosts natural testosterone in the

Anne:

Yes, that's right. And Tongkat Ali as well. And then Horny Goatweed as well. Yep, yep, yep. Uh, Horny Goatweed and Ginkgo Extract, which is ginger. Uh, Ginkgo Extract. That's it. Those are the things that's been, uh, uh, researched and written about. And that's what we put in our, uh, Libido Plus. But all this, all it does is increase testosterone.

Leah:

you buy that on your website, Anne?

Anne:

Yep. Go to my website at www.TrungRehab.Com. T R, the website is, uh, W W W T R U O N G R E H A B. com. So, TrungRehab. com.

Leah:

Beautiful. You've been just a wonderful wealth of knowledge. Boy, has it been exciting to talk to you. I feel so better equipped to support men with the things that you shared today. I'm really just so grateful that you came on the show and I'm, I'm sitting here just going, this is such valuable information and I want to spread the good word. Hallelujah. There are Things you can do that are effective and that are natural and working with your own body and getting the appropriate testing and then working with the tools. So many tools that you kind of bring together in so that men can feel confident again in the bedroom. Because this is something that feels so embarrassing. It has so much vulnerability connected to it. And it's something that they're so attached to and having a satisfying life. And when they start to lose their sense of sexuality and their relationship to their erection, it's deeply, um, troubling, right? It can, it's really painful. So I just, this is so rich.

Willow:

Yeah. Thank you so much for coming on the show, Dr. Anne. We love having you on, and it's just such a treat to pick your wealth of knowledge brain.

Leah:

Yeah,

Anne:

Oh, I would love, and I want to, I want to thank you for reaching out and learning, you know, stuff that will make you so useful to all your clients that you're working with. They are very lucky that the knowledge that you have now, Really, you know, create a comprehensive picture of, uh, you know, what you're working with, which is essential. And then now the medical knowledge combined with that, and that's why I'm learning from you. Yeah, the tech, you know, the other aspect that is not the physical aspect of ED, because I feel that's an integral part of, uh, of, of the man and the woman, uh, as well, too, because I also, I find it more challenging to deal with, uh, With the intimacy, the relationship, the communication, uh, uh, what, what the, uh, the man, after we treated the man, uh, and then, you know, how he navigates. You know, from, from

Willow:

From there on.

Anne:

right, but one thing I do want to leave with, with your, your listeners is that if you are a partner of a man with ED or you, or you're a man with ED, just know there is hope, and just know that they're all alternative to ED medication such as Viagra or Cialis, and they're alternative I can't tell you I'm seeing men in their 30s coming to see me because their doctor recommended they should get a penile implant. Now that I think is atrocious, okay? Penile implants, essentially you're getting this penis amputated and putting in two silicone rods in there. It is not something you want to do because there is hope. If we're seeing men with their prostate removed, Get function again, then, you know, your penis is a living Organ, it can be revived and you shouldn't throw it away And so I just want them to hear this message that you know that there are alternative There are hope and that if they just seek, you know, you all and us to work together They will find the path towards towards, you know functionality again.

Leah:

and I do want to tell our audience that, uh, Dr. Anne has generously, um, given you a free gift, which is the Good Morning Wood smoothie, I believe, Anne.

Anne:

You Yep. Yep. It is. It is one of our most popular item. It's essentially had fruit that you add in that is, uh, that will contribute to increase more increased nitric oxide and nitrous oxide increased blood flow. And we have seen men just do this, um, um, in the morning after they break their fast. I, I recommend that, that men do a 12 hour fast, meaning don't eat after 8 p. m. and eat, you know, when you wake up, you know, like around 8 a. m. and then break your fast with, uh, uh, the morning wood smoothie. That could be your breakfast and then eat again, uh, at, um, for lunch. It is an antioxidant. It also increases nitrous oxide. Drink it every day or even twice a day. You can put it in a, um, a blender. Put some ice in your favorite, uh, uh, liquid, either almond milk or milk or water. And it's very tasty. So it's one of our best seller. We've seen men just doing that and they start getting results

Willow:

Wow. That's an

Anne:

Morning Wood again.

Leah:

yeah, we'll have that in the show notes, and also, Anne, uh, what's the name of your podcast?

Anne:

So the podcast is called Sexual Health for Men. Sexual health for men. The type is everywhere in Apple, Spotify, everywhere that you can find it. And our mission is to really disseminate, uh, information that is useful for men to restore their sexual health. And I base it off of research. I, I don't do a lot of fluff stuff. And I, I, you know, there's a lot of misinformation out there. And like you said, this is such a, Uh, uh, personal issues and embarrassment and the first thing they're gonna do is start googling. And when they start googling, they're gonna fall prey to, you know, the ED medication, and other stuff, right? That may not help, uh, as well. So we want to kind of deliver no fluff information that we know has worked. We treated over 7, 000 men with ED and, uh, we know what works for them. And sometimes it's as simple as a diet, you know,

Willow:

Sometimes it's just that Morningwood smoothie. I mean, come on. Could be easy,

Leah:

And we'll, uh, we, we've had the pleasure of being a guest on Anne's podcast, so we will leave that link in the show notes. Thank you so much, Anne, for being on the show. Please stay tuned because The Dish is up next.

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Leah:

Oh my god. Oh my god. That was so good. I felt like I learned so much.

Willow:

I know I love Dr. Anne. She's, I've been referring people to her actually since we did our first interview with her. Whenever I'm like, okay, I've done as much as I can do. Now it's, you know, it's not working. You got to go see the specialist.

Leah:

I think this, um, uh, I always want to say platelets, but it's, what is she doing? Um,

Willow:

stem

Leah:

the stem cells. I

Willow:

which comes from platelets.

Leah:

Right. I think that is so worth investigating. I think it's like, it seems like, okay, I got a cock ring and I do the, um, stem cells and I do a penis pump every once in a

Willow:

Yeah, and they do stem cell for all kinds of things knee, elbow, low back, you know all the things It's really works amazingly. Well, yeah, even the PRP, you know, it's you can think about that as stem cell That's where the where they centrifuge the blood and then put it into your face kind of like the

Leah:

like the vampire facial?

Willow:

the vampire facial, exactly.

Leah:

works for erections? We should have asked her about

Willow:

No, that doesn't work for erections. I'm just saying, it's a platelet. It's kind of like a stem cell platelet thing that you can do for your skin,

Leah:

I've never heard that the vampire facial also works for

Willow:

for erections.

Leah:

be damned. Um.

Willow:

try that. That might be a whole new thing that

Leah:

mean, we just put it on the penis and see what happens. The magic of the vampire penis facial. Um. Yeah. Wow. And it's really fascinating to find out just how much diet and, and sleep

Willow:

Diet is huge. That's the first thing I'm always going to is you've got to start with a cleanse. Well, because most guys, most people are just dumping cortisol out of their adrenals constantly. And so they need to reset their whole nervous systems. And doing a cleanse is one of the best ways to do them.

Leah:

Yeah, and bioidentical testosterone to regulate your levels of testosterone. Very interesting that, would she say you lose one percent of your testosterone goes down every year starting at age 35? Yeah? Dang. All right, well we hope you, uh, just scrumptious, um, information. We hope you really enjoyed that and that serves you, uh, in how you take care of yourself and how you take care of your beautiful penis.

Willow:

Absolutely. And let us know,

Leah:

this love.

Willow:

and let us know too, if you would be interested in doing a little course, a little study work with Leah, Dr. Willow, and Dr. Anne, because we have been chatting with her about it, and we'd love to know how many out there would be interested in that.

Leah:

Yeah. So, have a beautiful day. Have a beautiful penis. Have a beautiful life. We love you!

Willow:

Ciao.

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