5 reasons men look down and say it's "not what it used to be"

You're not "getting old." It's just not filling up.

You've seen it in the shower. It hangs smaller than it did ten years ago, it takes longer to get going, and when it does, it doesn't feel as full.

You figure it's just part of getting older.

What's really happening? Your dick is just tubes that fill with blood. When less blood makes it down there, it hangs smaller and goes softer.

But the good news is, it's not gone. It's under-filled. And there's a simple daily fix thousands of men are using to get the blood back where it belongs.

Smaller, softer, no morning wood: one warning sign, not three

Looking smaller in the shower. Going soft halfway through. Waking up without morning wood.

They feel like three different problems, so most men try three different fixes.

But it's one problem: the blood isn't getting down there the way it used to. And morning wood is usually the first thing to go, because it's the clearest sign of how well the blood is getting down there.

Not all hope is lost. There are two things your blood vessels need to fill it back out, and you're about to find out what they are. Keep reading.

It doesn't stay in the bedroom

You check in the shower before anyone else can.

You roll over first at night, so she won't start something you're not sure you can finish.

When the guys joke about it, you laugh and say "not mine."

It's a quiet loop: less confidence, less sex, more checking.

But when the blood gets back down there, the opposite happens. It fills out, it stays, and you stop thinking about it.

So why does it hit down there first?

Your blood vessels have been working hard for years. Long days sitting at a desk or in the truck, stress, bad sleep, a few too many beers.

Over time, that wear can leave vessels less flexible, like a garden hose left out in the sun. When they can't open up as easily, less blood gets where it needs to go.

And it tends to show up down there early. The arteries that supply the penis are only 1 to 2 millimeters wide, about half the size of the ones feeding your heart, so they're often among the first places poor circulation shows up.

Source: Montorsi et al., Am J Cardiol, 2005.

Your blood vessels need 2 things your kitchen can't give them

You can't out-eat a stiff hose.

To fill it back out, your blood vessels need two things: the stretch back in their walls, and a steady supply of blood. That takes specific compounds: pine bark for the stretch, L-citrulline and beetroot for the blood, and BioPerine, from black pepper, so your body absorbs more of all three.

Beets and garlic help with the blood, but nothing on your plate puts the stretch back in the walls. And years of wear and tear break those walls down faster than food can keep up.

Without both, the tubes physically can't open all the way, no matter how many beets you eat or how many kegels you do.

You need the right formula to fix it at the source.