Watermelons Arouse Me

Not just me, everyone! I'm going to try and avoid the melons:boobies analogy, but it will be hard difficult given the context. It works the same way as Viagra does, but is less targetted.

Citrulline is present in watermelons and is converted to arginine in the body. Arginine promotes nitric oxide, or laughing gas synthesis. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels which lets the blood flow through us - yes, everywhere.



So nitric oxide, eh? I recall being put under by laughing gas when I was getting cavities drilled. Neither the doctor nor the nurse complimented me on my way out, so it either didn't happen, or they were unimpressed. This must mean that erectile dysfunction happens because the arteries and whatnot become too tense and can't flow the blood through our system fast enough, or with enough vigor.

I found this on ScienceDirect, aka science by press release. Sometimes they mention in the article where the work is being published, in which case I would look it up and cite that instead. This isn't the case, so I just have to take in what they wrote.

Photo: Flickr

Godspeed.


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