Malik: Sexual Dysfunction Is a Primary Biomarker of Systemic Illness
Dr. Rena Malik · Get Your Sex Life Back! What Everyone Gets Wrong About Sex & Libido: Dr. Rena Malik · Jun 11, 2025 · at 42:04
Urologist Dr. Rena Malik discusses why disruptions in sexual function frequently point toward underlying systemic health problems.
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“It's such a good biomarker of health. Your ability to have sex, so to have desire, to get aroused, to climax, and to feel good at the end of it all, all those things should be intact, right? And when there's a problem with one of them, it tells us, hey, is there a blood flow problem? Is there a hormonal problem? Is there a mental problem? Is there a neurologic problem? Is there something that you're taking that's affecting your sexual function? And so we gotta investigate all those things, and I can't tell you, like, this is one of the greatest ways to find out if something is wrong with you metabolically in your body, right?”
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