Working 13 hour days could increase a man’s risk of intimacy-destroying erectile dysfunction, a study suggests.
Researchers said more than half of men with long working weeks experienced major stress and had difficulty with sexual function.
They also had more than 10 times the odds of developing the condition compared to men who worked eight-hour days – the least stressed group.
Scientists found that levels of testosterone in the highly stressed men were 40 per cent lower than those with the lowest levels of job worry.
It’s believed that spikes in the stress hormone, cortisol, have a knock-on effect on testosterone – the male sex
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