Word: mg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urologists' offices and sex clinics--men both genuinely dysfunctional and merely dissatisfied, skulking around in hopes of achieving "better" erections through chemistry. Already, a kind of Viagra connoisseurship is beginning to take hold. "The hundreds are absolutely incredible," says a very satisfied user, referring to the drug's 100-mg maximum-strength dosage, "and the effect lasts through the following morning." What else can one say but Vrooom! Cheap gas, strong economy, erection pills--what a country! What a time to be alive...
...very active." Thanks to injection therapies (prostate-cancer treatments six years ago left him "semihard"), he has been having sex--by his account--as often as three or four times a week with several girlfriends in their 20s. Still, he was eager to try Viagra. Taking a 50-mg dose the first time, he was pleased with the results: "About as hard as it can get." However, a subsequent experiment with a 100-mg pill backfired, having no beneficial effect, as did a return to 50 mg. Mesher nevertheless plans to continue with Viagra, inspired, perhaps, by the example...
CEASE C? Just 500 mg a day of vitamin C, a typical supplement dose, may be too much, suggests a British study. Taken at this level, the vitamin seems to cause genetic damage to part of the DNA. For now, you may be better off sticking to low doses--or getting C from food...
HOLD THE SALT Yes, cutting down on salt and losing weight really can lower blood pressure in the elderly. A major clinical trial shows that after shedding 10 lbs. and cutting salt intake to 2,800 mg a day, half the patients had their blood pressure under control--without drugs...
PILL PROBLEM If you're on the blood thinner warfarin, taking 1,300 mg of acetaminophen--equivalent to four regular Tylenol--or more a day can raise the risk of hemorrhage...