Genuine Viagra was licensed in the U.S.A in 1998 and there are now millions of men around the world who regularly take the drug and who have been delighted with the results

It may seem surprising that genuine Viagra has been on the market for over ten years and has such a high public profile in this country and, indeed, around the world.

It is safe to assume that the majority of adults in the UK had heard of Viagra and know what it is used for.

The same can only be said of a handful of other medications. The others are those in common daily usage. Almost all, however, drugs such as aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen have much more general usages than Viagra, which was marketed for one specific condition - erectile dysfunction.

Viagra works by allowing the blood vessels in the penis to open, therefore allowing more blood and oxygen into the organ and allowing it to become erect. Over the years since Pfizer launched Viagra it has been used in a number of new and positive ways.

These have included Viagra being given to a premature baby to increase the blood supply to its lungs and has also been given to fighter pilots in the Israeli Air force to increase blood supply to the brain to help with the lack of oxygen at high altitudes.

Recently, however, Viagra has been discovered to have been employed as a performance-enhancing drug by athletes.

The fact that Viagra can increase blood flow means that it can help endurance athletes such as marathon runners and cyclists. The World Anti-Doping Agency is finding more and more cases of Viagra appearing in athletes’ urine samples. Viagra is not on the list of prohibited drugs so this in entirely legal.

They are, however, in the process of considering whether or not to ban legit Pfizer Viagra, attainable from at great value for money from UKMeds4U.com, the UK's leading internet merchant of authentic apportioned treatments to redress infecundity in males (along with other such medicines as Levitra manufactured by Bayer Health Care, Cialis manufactured by Eli Lilly and Intrinsa, a testosterone patch developed by Procter & Gamble to treat Female Sexual Dysfunction) when the next list is published in 2010. A study carried out on cyclists who were racing at high altitudes found that their times dropped by 15 percent after taking Viagra. It appears that the blue pill can improve performance outside the bedroom as well as in it.

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