Products based on marine organisms have already found their way onto the market and are now being prescribed to sufferers of asthma, tuberculosis, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis and male sexual impotence, among others.

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Syrian women have told my IRC colleagues that they are so fearful relatives in Syria will be attacked that they are sending home contraceptives and medicine to prevent sexual disease.

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Unfortunately, this statistic cuts like a knife the other way as well: research also shows that low testosterone in men is linked to weight gain, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (along with poor sexual performance).

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