Hey everyone, Ben Kummer Radio. How on earth are you doing? Well, I'll start off this podcast

by saying erections only because that is one of today's podcast topics. We have been

wading our way through some recent research reviews. Tom is with me today. Hello, Tom.

Hello, Ben. How's your erection? Don't even answer. Let me move on.

I mean, right now, like, so we have been wading our way through some recent

research and one of those research articles was about plant-based diets and male erectile

function. We're also going to look at CBD and back pain today, fasting and gut health, yoga

and mitochondrial health and the halo effect and how that looks at basically our food environment,

how we integrate food into our lifestyles and how that affects things. So today is going to be a

very broad show looking at quite a few different topics and we're basically just going to pick a

little bit of each of those topics. Yeah, sounds good. I think we should probably start with the

one that you've just dropped as the elephant in the room to be honest. Oh, okay. I think this

is what the people they're now waiting for. Yeah, so this study was fairly straightforward. Basically,

you've got 116 healthy men. It was a cross-sectional study, so it's not like they recruited them and

followed them over time or anything like that. Basically, they took a bunch of healthy men,

asked them to fill out a question there about how their erections are doing and also what they

ate on a food frequency question there. So there's wasn't people who self-identified as

following a plant-based or vegan diet, or as it was, they asked with a food frequency question.

Now, what that is for those who don't know is basically a big-ass question there where it says,

how many times in the last insert amount of time here, it might be the last month, last week,

last year, last decade, doesn't matter. How often would you eat red meat? How often would you

eat broccoli? How often would you drink milk? These kinds of questions. It's a fairly rough

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