Should We Really Be Excited About The New 'Female Viagra'?
Feb 11, 2014 19:40
So there's this little pink pill that's being promoted in Britain as the new female Viagra. Dubbed Lady Prelox, the supplement contains pycnogenol which is an extract from a French pine bark. It's also really expensive, too. A packet of 60 pills costs £37.95, or
about $62. With a recommended dosage of two pills per day, that can get a
little pricey.
So far, trials have found women who took the supplement showed a larger improvement in the Female Sexual Function Index, a medical tool for evaluating female sexual health.
So should we ladies be excited? Not quite. Pycnogenol helps with poor blood circulation, which has been linked to sexual dysfunction in men but not women. So doctors aren't yet convinced that the same underlying causes that lead to male erectile dysfunction have anything to do with similar issues in women.
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