Could this be unhealthy? For years, drug companies have dismissed natural treatment of any disorder with vitamins and herbs as taboo. 136 million pills at ten dollars each make their claims suspicious. But the idea of ‘instant sex in a pill’ is intriguing enough to make a lot of men forgo natural treatments and stick with the expensive miracle drugs.

So do the natural methods work? Well they won’t give someone a five hour erection (which really isn’t a cure for erectile dysfunction anyway)…but they sometimes help maintain an erection long enough for sex. ‘Sometimes’ and ‘help’ are the operative words here, because general health through natural supplements are never about instant results. Furthermore, they’re based on the idea that problems arise from natural deficiencies. Different deficiencies may cause the same symptoms in different people, so it won’t always call for the same supplements. That means trial and error.

One of the claims by medical professionals is that herbal and vitamin supplement providers have little statistical data to back up their success. This might be because much of the natural treatment business revolves around providing information instead of selling actual products. It’s only natural that the industry has less money at its disposal for studies and research.

Something else that medical professionals often point to is the placebo factor. The drug industry sometimes calls the ‘limited success’ of vitamin supplements and herbs as simply mind over matter. This is something to consider, but in the case of erectile dysfunction, one question comes to mind. “Does it really matter?”