Ridwan Shabsigh - Sensational Sex in 7 Easy Steps: The Proven Plan for Enhancing Your Sexual Function and Achieving Optimum Health

SENSATIONAL

SEX

IN 7 EASY

STEPS

THE PROVEN PLAN FOR ENHANCING

YOUR SEXUAL FUNCTION

AND ACHIEVING OPTIMUM HEALTH

RIDWAN SHABSIGH, MD

D IRECTOR OF THE D IVISION OF U ROLOGY AT M AIMONIDES M EDICAL C ENTER AND A SSOCIATE P ROFESSOR OF U ROLOGY AT C OLUMBIA U NIVERSITY

WITH BRUCE SCALI

WITH A FOREWORD BY MEHMET OZ, MD

C OAUTHOR OF THE N EW Y ORK T IMES B ESTSELLER YOU: T HE O WNERS M ANUAL

Notice

This book is intended as a reference volume only, not as a medical manual. The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek competent medical help.

Mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities in this book does not imply endorsement by the publisher or author, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they endorse this book.

Internet addresses and telephone numbers given in this book were accurate at the time it went to press.

2007 by Ridwan Shabsigh, MD, and Bruce Scali

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

Rodale books may be purchased for business or promotional use or for special sales. For information, please write to: Special Markets Department, Rodale Inc., 733 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Book design by Drew Frantzen

Illustrations by Munir Elias; calligraphy by Haisam Ezmat

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shabsigh, Ridwan.

Sensational sex in 7 easy steps : the proven plan for enhancing your sexual function and achieving optimum health / Ridwan Shabsigh, with Bruce Scali ; with a foreword by Mehmet Oz, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller You : the owners manual.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 13 9781594864216 paperback

ISBN 10 1594864217 paperback

eISBN 13 9781609617004 ebook

1. MenHealth and hygiene. 2. MenSexual behavior. 3. Hygiene, Sexual. 4. Sex. 5. Self-care, Health. I. Scali, Bruce. II. Title. III. Title: Sensational sex in seven easy steps.

RA564.83.S4644 2007

613'.04234dc222006036610

We inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them
For more of our products visit rodalestore.com or call 800-848-4735

To my family, who supports me and encourages me to help others.

To all of my patients and their partners, who provide the inspiration to advance research, knowledge, and discovery.

After collaborating with Ridwan Shabsigh, MD, in patient care, research, and teaching at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, I am honored to introduce this landmark book.

Although our medical specialties differpatients from all over the world visit me for heart ailments and visit Dr. Shabsigh for problems with sexual functionhe and I share a common medical philosophy and treatment approach.

We both believe in prevention, early detection, timely intervention, and wise adoption of complementary medicine. We use whatever has been proven to work. Dr. Shabsigh and I apply our specialized surgical skills only when other options are not successful or appropriate. We understand that superior medical care is delivered by evaluating a patient globally and integrating as many treatment weapons as possible to reverse a medical complaint. Medications work. Surgery indeed saves lives. But diet, exercise, supplements, counseling, and meditation all have value in improving surgical outcomes, and, more important, in helping to avoid surgery in the first place.

Prevention and early detection are the vanguards of modern medicine. If doctors and patients are proactive about staying healthy and take aggressive action at the first sign of illness, many serious repercussions, surgeries, and their inherent complications could be prevented. Premature deaths could be drastically reduced. Quality of life could be improved and extended. Health care isnt always about a magic bullet or a sharp scalpel.

Sometimes the cutting-edge approaches are not high-tech. Improving your lifestyle and eliminating excess weight and harmful habits will pay dividends in the bedroom and in your entire life. A large part of Dr. Shabsighs program is dedicated to empowering men so that they can maintain good health and prevent its decline.

The next best option is to diagnose disease early on and use the least invasive treatments to reverse it. Whether we are talking about your cardiovascular system or your sexual function, there are early warning signs of serious illness. Pay heed to any signal, whether its abnormal blood pressure, elevated lipids or other markers, or a problem with obtaining or maintaining an erection. They are all clues about the onset of cardiovascular disease, the rusting of your arteries.

Dr. Shabsigh is one of the pioneers who have identified erectile dysfunction (ED) as a valid predictor of cardiovascular disease and he has also shown its connection to diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and depression. His health gauges will help you to monitor your health and focus on what you need to tune up, preferably using the numerous nonprescription complementary approaches he describes in these pages. Intervening at the earliest stages of ED using his program could fully restore your sexual function right now. It could also help you to avoid heart attacks, strokes, and visits to the operating room for vascular bypasses or transplants associated with cardiovascular disease.

Sexual dysfunctions that are in a more advanced stage require the most powerful and up-to-date medical treatment options, and Dr. Shabsigh is equal to the task. His mastery of the diagnostic process and treatment selection, consummate skill in the operating room, and recognition of when other specialists should be consulted are second to none in his field. The minority of patients who need such care are fortunate to have someone like Dr. Shabsigh present the information about it here.

I often refer to Dr. Shabsigh as a sexual encyclopedia. He covers it allfrom prevention to surgerywithin these pages. But he goes far beyond sexual health in this book. Perhaps the best thing about his programfor doctors as well as the general publicis that it is a program for overall health. For you simply cannot maintain or improve sexual function, which depends on the cardiovascular and nervous systems as well as on brain function and hormone levels, without maintaining or improving general health. Any issue or concern related to sexual function should be the impetus to see a doctor to get to the root of the problem. Any doctor who examines a patient presenting with ED should explore other possible health issues. Dr. Shabsigh makes this point emphatically and advances the cause for regular and comprehensive health checkups for men, still woefully lacking today.