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But Drinking Just the Juice Doesn't Cut It​

This compound builds strong erections three different ways, along with improving the health of the male reproductive system.​

No other fruit or vegetable can affect human sexual performance like pomegranate. It may not be the absolute champ when it comes to raising your testosterone level, increasing erectile strength, or improving the health of your blood vessels (which is a big factor in achieving and maintaining erections), but no other fruit or vegetable does ALL three things so effectively.

I’m sure you’re at least peripherally aware of some of the healthy attributes of pomegranate fruit or juice, and maybe you even eat some of it or drink some of its tangy juice on a regular basis.

That’s great, and you’re probably reaping some of the benefits. However, I can tell you with complete confidence that eating the fruit or drinking the juice of pomegranates isn’t getting you close to tapping into its full pro-sexual potential.

The problem is that the plant chemical that does most of the heavy lifting for pomegranates is something called “punicalagins” (a polyphenol – an ellagitannin to be specific) and the heaviest concentration of them is in the RIND or skin of the pomegranate, a part of the fruit that generally gets discarded both by consumers and manufacturers of pomegranate juice.

So I’ll say it right up front: To really get all the pro-sexual benefits of punicalagins, you either have to eat a lot of the dried peel – as they do in many places in the Middle East where the powder’s used for a variety of medicinal purposes.

Obviously, the latter alternative is the far more effective and practical choice, but you can decide if you want to go that route later after we do a quick run-through of the specific pro-sexual properties of punicalagins:

When you ingest punicalagins, they’re partially metabolized by gut microflora into a compound called “urolithin,” which is a powerful inhibitor of aromatase activity. Aromatases are enzymes that turn testosterone into estrogen, and if you can inhibit the activity of these aromatases, in this case by urolithin, you automatically increase testosterone levels.

And I’m not talking about a little duck-snort of testosterone elevation, either. A study of men and women found that punicalagins raised levels of the hormone by an average of 24%.

punicalagins might also raise testosterone through another mechanism, one that’s relatively minor but still worth noting: People who ingest punicalagins daily have a reduced appetite and felt more satiated after eating than a placebo group.

Since being fat or overweight in itself can cause lower levels of testosterone and raise levels of estrogen, anything that helps you lose weight could also have the downstream effect of raising testosterone.




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Nitric oxide (NO) is a chemical that relaxes the smooth muscle fibers of the penile arteries so they allow more blood to flow into the penis; typically 8 to 10 times what it would normally hold.

Unfortunately, NO levels start to decline with age, starting at about 40. Men in their 50s or 60s often produce half the NO they did when they were in their 20s. Luckily, it’s something we can easily manipulate. It’s exactly this phenomenon that’s the basis of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs like Viagra and Cialis.

The drugs inhibit an enzyme called PDE5, which prevents your body from chemically dismantling the NO that’s released by your nerves and penile blood vessels. More NO means a better erection. Unfortunately, approximately one-third of men don’t respond to these drugs.

This is where punicalagins present an attractive alternative. They too elevate levels of NO, but they elevate neuronal nitric oxide synthase, whereas Viagra and similar drugs elevate endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Of course, elevating either type of NO usually results in a prize-winning erection.

Here’s the thing, though: The neuronal nitric oxide synthase, unlike the other type that’s increased by Viagra and co., seems to bypass PDE5. That means that punicalagins might work for those men for whom PDE5 inhibitors don’t do squat.

But the effectiveness of punicalagins aren’t just restricted to men for whom Viagra and its cousins don’t work – they appear to improve erectile function in just about everybody. A double-blind crossover study with 61 male subjects found that 47% reported improved erections with pomegranate while only 32% of placebo did… and that was with plain pomegranate and not purified and standardized punicalagins.

Erections are all about hydraulics: if the “hoses” (blood vessels) are strong and clear of gunk, they can provide a lot of the pressure needed to hoist your penis skywards.

We’ve already discussed how punicalagins raise levels of NO, which in itself opens up blood vessels, but punicalagins also appear to improve circulatory function in general through their powerful anti-oxidant capability. Multiple studies have shown them to enhance blood flow in general and even reverse arterial plaque growth (roto-rooter out the plaque and you automatically improve blood flow).

punicalagins also have other beneficial effects on the male reproductive system in general. For one thing, people who ingest pomegranate produce more sperm and the sperm in general has better motility and better structure. Again, that’s just with plain juice, so imagine what ingesting concentrated punicalagins might accomplish. (Super sperm!)

Pomegranate in general also reduces prostate inflammation, along with interfering with androgen pathways that can cause dreaded prostate hypertrophy (5-alpha reductase type one and 3-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type two).

Each serving contains 180 mg. of punicalagins (from pomegranate), along with 30 mg. of lycopene from natural tomato extract and 500 mg. of cranberry whole fruit concentrate.

Together, they should make you, well, pee well, or at least pee better. The product also helps protect your all-too-vulnerable prostate and possibly allows you to enjoy a better sex life by improving testosterone levels and allowing more blood to flow into the penis when aroused.

Try taking three capsules a day for a month and pay special attention to your erectile strength and erectile frequency to determine if it’s working for you.