If there was an internet award for either the most loved fruit or the most browsed fruit, the Acai berry would win both. A quick search with Google will reveal a long list of sites that talk about the virtues of the fruit. Amongst its many virtues, it is reportedly a good antioxidant and a rich source of nutrients. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is one of its many supporters and has reportedly encouraged her audience to include the berry in their diet. Every year millions of dollars are spent online ordering this fruit online. It is either sold in its normal form or packaged as juice or tablet extracts.
Many of such pills, claimed to be based on the extracts of Acai berry. However, when recently examined it was discovered that these claims are mostly false. Pills announced as containing Acai berry did not really contain extract of this fruit but instead that of another compound. Sildenafil—the core ingredient in Viagra.
Sildenafil is the causative agent that is found In Viagra. For men who suffer from impotency, the effects of Viagra can easily result in a cure. However, the effects of Sildenafil can also just as easily result in negative consequences when misdiagnosed with people who are normal or those suffering from specific heart conditions.
Many of these Acai tablets were sold with the promise that they would, amongst other things increase the rate at which people lost weight and prolong their youthful look. All of these have been discovered to be untrue.
Unlike claims announced by Acai berry tablets however, there is no denying the efficiency of Viagra. Since its release in 1998 more than a billion tablets have been sold with millions around the world recording successful treatment of their condition. It is reported that there are 20 million men alone in the United States who suffer from impotency. The success rate of Viagra tablets in these conditions is found to be 87%. Viagra tablets are sold in doses of 25mg, 50mg and a 100mg. They are blue in color and shaped like a diamond.
Despite the trademark features of Viagra however, reports indicate that, just like the Acai berry, the Viagra tablet has also become a victim of counterfeiting. Many online stores today offer fake Viagra tablets. For example, in a recent study conducted in Asia involving more than 50 shops it was discovered that as much as 50% of the pills ordered were fake.
Again like the Acai tablets, many of these pills were sold with false claims. For instance it is claimed in some marketing circles that Viagra tablets can be used as aphrodisiacs. This is not true. It is also wrongly marketed that Viagra tablets can be used for the prevention, treatment or cure of sexually transmitted diseases. Again this is not true.
Viagra pills are prescribed regularly and can be bought at a number of online stores. When you buy Viagra online, you should pay attention to the features and offers of the store in question. Although it is possible to buy real Viagra for cheap, you need to avoid false stores which offer fake Viagra tablets disguised beneath the shroud of affordability. The Acai berry might have a lot of advantages but even it is unable to cure erectile dysfunction.
Viagra easily does.
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For the millions of men living within the geographical area of Ireland and the UK, erectile dysfunction is so much a threat because of its frequency of occurrence. In the UK alone, one out of every 10 men suffers from erectile dysfunction, according to statistics. The figure is very much the same in the Ireland.
Studies on the condition of erectile dysfunction show that the high rate of this problem is affected especially by habits instead of location.
The proportion of men who have erectile dysfunction has been found to predominate amongst people who have a lifestyle of smoking and drinking on a regular basis. And that is one habit that is all too common among people in the Ireland.
The incidence of erectile dysfunction is very much the same in Ireland as it is in other countries, and the availability of treatment for this problem is easy, cheap and safe for those who reside within Ireland to boot.
Viagra pills are well accepted in the medical field as an effective treatment for erectile dysfunction and they have a high approval rating from the majority of the world’s leading health bodies.
Discovered more than a decade ago, Viagra tablets are identifiable from their trademark diamond shape and blue colour. One side of each pill is the inscribed the stated dosage—a dosage which could be 25 mg, 50 mg or a 100 mg – while on the other side is the inscription of the name of the parent company Pfizer, Inc.
Viagra tablets have been a prescription drug since becoming available, with doctors having the responsibility of determining the suitability of the diamond-shaped blue pills for a patient.
Because the side effects of Viagra pills and their interactions with other drugs are well-documented, doctors would have to assess their patients on the basis of drug use, medical history, etc, by prescribing doctors before the patient could be certified fit to use the little blue pills.
In recent times, the demand for Viagra tablets has been on a steady rise. Anyone who wants to buy Viagra online is expected to consult his health care provider. The health care provider should know if you have any of these conditions:
•eye or vision problems, including a rare inherited eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa
• angina, heart disease, low or high blood pressure, a history of heart attack, or other heart conditions
•liver disease
•kidney disease
•stroke
•an allergic or unusual reaction to sildenafil citrate, other drugs, foods, dyes, or preservatives
•pregnant or attempting to become pregnant
•breast-feeding
Viagra tablets are taken orally, typically with a glass of water. The require dose should be taken 30 minutes to 1 hour of engaging in sexual activity. A maximum of dose is required to be taken once daily.
Drugs that interact with Viagra:
The following are drugs that can interact with Viagra negatively and are therefore are contraindicated with the medicine:
• methscopolamine nitrate
• cisapride
• nitroprusside
• nitrates like amyl nitrite, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, nitroglycerin
•other sildenafil products such as Revatio
Other drugs that may also interact with Viagra include:
•certain medications for high blood pressure such as alpha-blockers
•certain medications for the treatment of HIV infection or AIDS – e.g. protease inhibitors
Viagra is exclusively produced and marketed by Pfizer, the world’s largest producer of drugs.
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Viagra is the magic blue pill, a registered trademark of Pfizer that has been well talked about because of its sex-boosting ability. After becoming available as the first oral prescription drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration in April 1998, Viagra tablets still rank as one of the all time best selling drugs till date.
The sales figure for Viagra tablets – given by the drug prescription-tracking giant IMS Health – in just the first year of release into the market is staggering: About 1.2 billion US dollars have been grossed from the sale of Viagra, and over 13 million men all over the world are on prescription of the diamond-shaped blue pill.
A major impact that Viagra has brought is that pharmaceutical companies all over the world have begun looking at the possibility of playing a part in the vast ED market, and there are even growing questions about how the recent advances and better understanding of men’s sexual dysfunctional problems can be of benefit to women – especially in the area of Viagra tablets as a treatment for their various sexual problems.
A recent statistical survey conducted by the American Medical Association showed that the incidents of sexual dysfunctions are higher in women than men. The study showed that about 43 percent of women have one form of sexual dysfunction or the other as compared to the 31 percent incident rate in men. Despite showing that there is a large and underserved market in the area of treating sexual dysfunctions in women, just how Viagra tablets can help solve this problem is still not clear.
Pfizer, Inc., have constantly reiterated that the drug was originally designed to treat men with angina pectoris and hypertension. But when the Viagra tablets, rather than treat the angina, produced rock-hard erections among this group of men who were believed to be impotent, it was marketed as a treatment for ED.
It is common knowledge that Viagra tablets produce their erectile effect – through the aid of their sildenafil active ingredient – by relaxing the smooth muscles to enable blood to flow into the corpus cavernosum of the penis.
Researchers have often liken the erection pathway in men to that of women, and some of them even believe that the flow of blood to the clitoris could be central to the enhancement of sexual activity in women. So any drug like Viagra, they have argued, that could facilitate the flow of blood to the clitoris can actually be effective in the treatment of sexual dysfunctions in women.
If this assertion is true, a moot question that would be raised is: Why is Pfizer not marketing Viagra as a treatment for sexual dysfunctions in women?
Maryann Caprino, a spokeswoman for Pfizer, in responding to the ‘Viagra for women’ question, opined that at the moment the complex nature of sexual dysfunctions in women simply made it difficult for Viagra tablets to be marketed to women.
Any woman who wants to buy Viagra tablets would have to be patient until a better understanding of sexual dysfunctions among this sex is achieved.
However, this opinion has gone unheeded if the words of some doctors are anything to go by. Dr. H. Nurnberg, a respondent from the University of New Mexico, was of the express belief that women respond better to Viagra than men.
Nurnberg’s belief stemmed from a personal research that he carried out on a group of women who were expressing temporary sexual dysfunction that had been induced by antidepressants. After making these women take Viagra tablets, Nurnberg was able to find out that the diamond-shaped drug helped the women to finish their therapy while retaining their sexual activity.
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Since becoming available in the market, Viagra has been popular not only because of the enormous success the drug has recorded in the treatment of men with a kind of impotence known as erectile dysfunction, but because the magic blue pill seem to have the ability to constantly reinvent itself.
As recent as the 15th of February 2007, a report emanated from a hospital in Tyneside, Newcastle, of how Viagra tablets were used as a last ditch effort to save the life of a premature infant.
Lewis Goodfellow, according to the report, had been born at 24 weeks and was weighing about 1pound and 8 ounce. Because one of Lewis’s lungs had failed, the oxygen supply to his bloodstream was not enough
The doctors at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, the hospital where Lewis had been born, had decided to administer Sildenafil Citrate, the generic name for Viagra, on the infant.
The doctors, apparently, had reckoned that the drug could open up tiny blood vessels in the baby’s lungs to allow for oxygen to be absorbed into the bloodstream.
This experiment turned out to save young Lewis’s life, and Alan Fenton, consultant neonatologist at the hospital, was quoted to have said afterwards:
‘Usually, babies born prematurely with breathing difficulties have problems with getting adequate blood supply to their lungs to circulate the oxygen to the parts of their body, even when oxygen is blown into their lungs to help them. Viagra could be useful in this situation by opening up the blood vessels in order for oxygen to be captured and be subsequently distributed around the body.’
Also, in keeping with the headlines-grabbing tradition, Viagra was again in the news on February 14, 2007 when Boot the chemist decided to embark on a pilot scheme to make Viagra tablets available over-the-counter.
Proposed to be made available in three pharmaceutical stores in Manchester, England, the scheme is aimed at making the drug available to those who want to buy Viagra with no prescription. Depending on how successful the scheme turns out, the drugs would be made available nationwide under the same arrangement.
However, any customer who wants to buy the magic blue pills at these stores, but who do not have prescription, would be asked such questions that relate to his suitability to order Viagra tablets.
Before a customer can purchase the packet of four Viagra tablets, for example, for 50 pounds, he is expected to reveal his medical history to a pharmacist, and also have his blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels, tested.
The argument in favour of this novel scheme is that it is the right direction to go in making Viagra tablets available to the vast number of people who couldn’t get prescription for the blue pills, but who nevertheless still want to buy Viagra without prescription.
According to Boots, out of the estimated 3 million men in Great Britain suffering from erectile dysfunction, only about 10 percent receive treatment. Under the scheme, more drugs would be made available to help tend to a part of the untreated class, and men between the ages of 30 and 65 would be eligible to buy.
And any man who wishes to get a regular supply of Viagra tablets would be asked to consult with a private doctor, at a cost of slightly above 35 pounds.
Once the man is deemed fit to buy Viagra tablets, the drug would be available at 21.25 pounds per 4-tablet pack – a price that is as competitive as that quoted on the internet.
Boots the chemist is a reputable pharmacy based in Manchester.
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Erectile dysfunction or impotence, before the advent of modern therapies, was rarely treated; or when treated, through psychoanalysis. A better understanding of the condition has led to the implication of organic conditions, like nerve damages, vascular diseases and hormonal imbalances, as the major causes of ED, a marked change from the previous causes which were believed to be psychogenic in origin. This has resulted in a shift in the primary responsibility for treating ED patients from psychiatrists to urologists.
Recently, a second and more authoritative shift has taken place: the introduction of Viagra tablets. With a simple prescription, it is now possible, according to family and general practitioners and internists in the western world, to treat most cases of erectile dysfunction.
Although an understanding of the processes involved in erection of the penis would allow for the treatment of the organic causes of erectile dysfunction in many ways, Viagra tablets have become a definitive cure for every degree of the condition. Such is the popularity of Viagra tablets that the blue pills are now the treatment of choice in about 95 percent of erectile dysfunction cases. This raises some questions about the efficiency and safety of other ED treatments.
On the positive side though, Viagra tablets have changed the way men and their doctors confront impotence and brought the condition out of society's closet.
It is pertinent for one to have some knowledge about the anatomy of the penis in order to understand the causes of ED. Of course, in loose terms, the functions of the penis are for the excretion of liquid waste from the body and to allow for sexual penetration and help introduce sperm into the vaginal canal, when rigid.
Rigidity of the penis occurs when the cerebral cortex and limbic system send conscious or unconscious neurological signals to the hypothalamus, which are then relayed down the sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons of the penis via the spinal cord.
Neurotransmitters – that relax the smooth muscle cells lining the corporal bodies and the arteries supplying blood to the penis – are then released by the nerve endings.
The relaxation of the arterial walls allows for more blood to enter the exit and the penis becomes erect. It is important to note that the mechanism of erection in man is regulated by the brain's inhibitory control.
For the erection pathway to begin, a sexual stimulus is needed, which could be visual, tactile, auditory, gustatory or olfactory.
Normally, the entire sequence of events – from stimulation to erection – takes place in seconds.
Any interference of this nerve pathway – in the form of head and spinal cord injuries, stroke, Parkinson's disease, and diseases with systemic effects such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes – can lead to ED.
Another cause of ED is ageing, which is often accompanied by a consistent decrease in nerve endings in the penis and blood flow.
An order for Viagra tablets as a treatment for ED is done with the aim that Sildenafil Citrate, the active ingredient in Viagra, would help facilitate the dilation of the blood vessels in order for the blood to be circulated into the penis.
Sildenafil citrate enables the flow of blood into the penis through the inhibition of the cGMP specific phosphodiesterase type 5, an enzyme that degrades cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). The prevention of the cGMP from building up in levels in the penis would make the build up of blood in the corpus cavernosum of the penis not to be possible.
The internet is a non-traditional source of obtaining the drugs for those who want to buy Viagra tablets online.
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Halai Ashish’s pharmaceutical business had been on for a number of years. The legitimate business, which Ashish ran with his pharmacist wife, Nanya Halai, enjoyed a tremendous amount of goodwill.
After sometime, Ashish and his wife decided to sell their business so that he could try his hand at selling herbal weight-loss aids, while still using their business name. Not satisfied with what they were earning from the weight-loss aids, the British couple had decided to venture into selling fake Viagra tablets – the magic pills that were generally seen as the ultimate refuge for millions of men who are suffering from erectile dysfunction.
Clinching a deal to supply a Mexican company based in the Bahamas the drugs, Ashish established a network of contacts which he effectively deployed to smuggle the fake Viagra tablets through Great Britain into the Bahamas.
Devising a foolproof method of concealing his drugs, Ashish would mark the packages as vitamin supplements for dogs and ship them through such reputable companies as DHL.
Finally found out when the fake Viagra tablets, together with a number of other counterfeit drugs, were detected and seized while being smuggled into the Stansted and Heathrow airports, the Ashish case spanned two years, between 2003 and 2004.
Tests conducted on the seized samples showed that up to 90 percent of the active ingredients of the drugs were genuine, while most of the fake drugs were sold on the internet.
On further investigations, Ashish and his group were discovered to be a UK part of a global distribution network of drug counterfeiting ring that have tentacles extending into such countries like Pakistan, India and China, the US and also the Caribbean.
The Ashish drug scandal, generally known as the biggest drug bust in the history of the UK, is a factual representation of the growing incidents of the sale of fake Viagra tablets on the internet.
According to an internet survey, there are over 500 pharmaceutical companies selling Viagra tablets online, and a chunk of these online sellers are fake dealers.
The fact that the Ashish gang, despite not being genuine dealers, went as far as prescribing the Viagra tablets to their prospective buyers, shows how far some of the fake dealers could go to deceive the public.
The Chinese police in the eastern province of Zhejiang continues the litany of fake Viagra dealers story when they raided a 30-man gang suspected of selling and manufacturing fake Viagra tablets.
About 18,000 fake Viagra tablets were seized together with over a ton of fake drugs during the raid, and the gang sold all the drugs in over 12 countries.
Also, in Guangdong, 12 people were arrested in possession of one ton of fake drugs and large volumes of raw materials for producing cheap sildenafil citrate, the generic name for Viagra tablets.
On the 18th of December at the Paris main air hub at Roissy, a freight cargo bound for Brazil was intercepted by the French custom. The cargo contained boxes branded Erectalis and Powergra, and each box contained four tablets cloned in the characteristic shape and colour of Cialis and Viagra pills.
The drugs were found to be fake when they were closely inspected by representatives from Pfizer and Eli Lilly, the makers of Viagra and Cialis respectively.
The head of Enforcement at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, opined that the greatest problem to the proliferation of the internet drug fraud was the attitude of the public in continually overlooking the reputable pharmaceutical companies as a means of getting their dose of real Viagra tablets, choosing instead to buy cheap Viagra online.
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