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Sex drug can strongly suppress abnormal heart rhythms, finds study (Viagra “strongly” fixes arrythmias)
Medical XPress / Circulation Research / University of Manchester ^ | Sept. 2, 2021 | David C Hutchings et al,

Posted on 09/02/2021 2:01:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

Viagra, used to treat sexual impotence, can strongly suppress abnormal heart rhythms known as arrythmias in sheep according to scientists.

In female sheep, the drug—also known as sildenafil—was able to suppress an arrythmia called Torsades de Pointes within 90 seconds by reducing the frequency of irregular heart rhythms caused by abnormal handling of calcium.

It also reduced the probability of Torsades de Pointes, which can lead to sudden cardiac death. However, the team believe the drug could treat other arrythmias as well.

Cardiac arrythmias often follow a heart attack, or result from heart disease. Though often benign , they can cause symptoms including palpitations, breathlessness, fainting and sometimes sudden death.

Treatments such as beta blockers and implantable defibrillators exist, though are not always effective.

Working on isolated sheep heart muscle cells known as myocytes, the research team were also able to measure their calcium stores- as well as their electrical properties.

Although calcium is a key driver of the heart's pumping action, its overload can be a root cause of arrythmias. Viagra was able to suppress the mechanism in the cell which causes calcium overload.

When a small amount calcium enters a myocyte, it triggers the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR)—a calcium store—to release a larger quantity of calcium.

When there is heart disease, the SR can become overloaded with calcium which in turn makes the heart beat at the wrong time- when it is supposed to be resting between beats.

"In 2016, our study of patients with diabetes showed that incidental use of Viagra was linked with reduced heart attack risk and improved heart attack survival."

"In 2019, we found that Viagra can slow or even reverse the progression of heart failure in sheep and this work dramatically extends those important findings providing another tool with which to beat heart disease."

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: arrhythmia; sarahpalin; viagra
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Your doctor may not prescribe based on this study, but if you were to request it for another very common reason, you’d surely get it.
1 posted on 09/02/2021 2:01:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind

In female sheep, huh?

Just in time for our Afghani friends.


2 posted on 09/02/2021 2:02:25 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ConservativeMind

That’s hard to believe.

😜


3 posted on 09/02/2021 2:03:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ConservativeMind

I’m keeping my mouth shut on this one. There is only on place for this thread to go.


4 posted on 09/02/2021 2:04:00 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“There is only on place for this thread to go.”

Up?


5 posted on 09/02/2021 2:04:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservativeMind

What if one takes it with cocaine, Jack Daniels, and a woman of the evening?
Asking for a friend.


6 posted on 09/02/2021 2:06:26 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservativeMind

It’s a good thing we are not using it for horses.


7 posted on 09/02/2021 2:07:00 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: ConservativeMind
I took a Viagra pill once out of curiosity, a friend gave me one, and it didn't do anything. On the other hand Hillary was screeching on the TV at the time.

"AMERICANS ABANDONED IN AFGHANISTAN?


8 posted on 09/02/2021 2:07:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: ConservativeMind

It was originally developed as a heart drug.
But then it had a curious side effect that was found to be worth more money.🤔


9 posted on 09/02/2021 2:07:45 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“How about a scrip for the stuff, Doc? It’s for my Sarcoplasmic Reticulum.”


10 posted on 09/02/2021 2:08:09 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ConservativeMind

Sorry...I ain’t goin’ anywhere near this one!


11 posted on 09/02/2021 2:09:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I took a Viagra pill once out of curiosity, a friend gave me one, and it didn't do anything. On the other hand Hillary was screeching on the TV at the time.

"AMERICANS ABANDONED IN AFGHANISTAN?

If it didn’t disappear inside your body, the Viagra did its job.

12 posted on 09/02/2021 2:09:27 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

lol


13 posted on 09/02/2021 2:10:41 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: gitmo

LOL! Yep, that’s what happened.


14 posted on 09/02/2021 2:12:09 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: ConservativeMind
What human body part is long, hard, bendable, most useful when erect, and contains the letters p,n,e,s,i?

Spine

15 posted on 09/02/2021 2:12:39 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: ConservativeMind

They are really bring the wood out in support of Pfizer.


16 posted on 09/02/2021 2:12:57 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: ConservativeMind

Strongly?
Why not firmly or stiffly?


17 posted on 09/02/2021 2:13:51 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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If I’m it mistaken the original intent behind it was as a blood thinner to help with heart conditions. Lo and behold it had an unforeseen result that they were able to market.

Kind of like scotch guard and other things


18 posted on 09/02/2021 2:14:40 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: ConservativeMind

Good to have another way to fight hardening of the arteries….


19 posted on 09/02/2021 2:15:04 PM PDT by OKC Patriot ("Never Forget"!)
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To: qaz123

Nitrates are vaso-dilators.


20 posted on 09/02/2021 2:15:24 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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