According to the FDA, you may want to be careful about what is in your coffee...especially if you... [+] are meeting someone. (Photo: Shutterstock)
You may want to be careful where and when you drink Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued the following warning: Otc Erection Pills
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee, a product promoted for improving energy. This product was identified by FDA during an examination of international mail shipments.
The FDA has found desmethyl carbodenafil in the coffee, an ingredient quite similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra. Viagra, as you probably know, is not coffee but a medication originally approved for erectile dysfunction. (Although, nowadays many people may use Viagra and similar medications as sex aids.) Talk about using coffee to get up in the morning.
Thus, drinking Still Bull Herbal Coffee could lead to some rather awkward coffee meet-ups. Now you know what the company probably means when it claims that Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee is a "relationship saver"...if it doesn't land you in the hospital or worse. As the FDA warning continues, "This undeclared ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Men with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart disease often take nitrates." Therefore, the coffee plus certain medications could be a hazardous and even lethal combination.
Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee has an ingredient similar to the active ingredient in Viagra. (Photo by... [+] Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Even more troubling, the packaging for this coffee doesn't seem to even mention this ingredient. In other words, the company is not telling customers that they may be drinking something similar to Viagra. This could lead to much confusion, danger and unnecessary pants shopping.
Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee is not the first product with undeclared ingredients that could have major health effects. As this earlier FDA announcement declared, the FDA " has found nearly 300 fraudulent products—promoted mainly for weight loss, sexual enhancement, and bodybuilding—that contain hidden or deceptively labeled ingredients, such as the active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs or their analogs (closely-related drugs) and other compounds, such as novel synthetic steroids, that do not qualify as dietary ingredients." Here John Oliver discusses such supplements:
How do you protect yourself? First, be very wary about dietary, weight-loss, body building or any other "enhancing" supplements. Unless your doctor indicates otherwise, you don't need dietary supplements. Natural foods should be able to provide you with everything that you need to have a healthy diet. As they say, nutritional supplements can simply lead to well-fortified urine. (And by the way, don't drink your own urine.) Secondly, be very suspicious about claims that go beyond "tastes good" or "yummy." Beware of anything that sounds like a medication claim for something that is not an officially approved medication. No food should make a body part grow out of proportion with the rest of your body. You can't select to be overweight in the breasts but nowhere else. Yes, maybe taking out the trash, doing the dishes, lighting candles, watching Hugh Grant movies, showering, oysters and chocolate can enhance sex. But can other products without including suspicious ingredients? Third, make sure you use products how they are usually used. Drink coffee for its taste and perhaps the caffeine but not to save your relationship...unless your significant other works at Starbucks . Fourth, check with your doctor before using a product that makes any medication-like claims. Finally, ask yourself, why isn't this stuff being better regulated?
Instant Male Arousal Pills Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee should get a rise out of people, but not in the way that the company wants. Putting such ingredients in coffee without going through FDA or other regulatory body approval and not even telling consumers is irresponsible and potentially dangerous. If you want to save your relationship, instead of drinking coffee, you may want to just listen to your significant other...just a thought.