{"id":147998,"date":"2022-10-12T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/navy-seals-are-allegedly-taking-viagra-for-a-very-strange-reason"},"modified":"2022-10-12T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:22:17","slug":"navy-seals-are-allegedly-taking-viagra-for-a-very-strange-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/navy-seals-are-allegedly-taking-viagra-for-a-very-strange-reason","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEALs Are Allegedly Taking Viagra for a Very Strange Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-seals-are-allegedly-taking-viagra-for-a-very-strange-reason2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The use of drugs that boost athletic capabilities make sense in the grueling environment of Navy SEAL training. Viagra, though, the brand name of a drug called sildenafil which is typically prescribed as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, seems on its face to be much more unusual.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT reports that other Navy SEAL candidates had convinced Mullen that the drug was an effective treatment for SIPE, the acronym that sailors gave swimming-induced pulmonary edema. There is some evidence that the sailors were onto something; several groups of researchers have found that sildenafil might be an effective treatment against the condition.<\/p>\n<p>NYT article.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Death in Navy SEAL Training Exposes a Culture of Brutality, Cheating and Drugs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F08%2F30%2Fus%2Fnavy-seal-training-death.html#?secret=LlcuwPhrA1\" data-secret=\"LlcuwPhrA1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of drugs that boost athletic capabilities make sense in the grueling environment of Navy SEAL training. Viagra, though, the brand name of a drug called sildenafil which is typically prescribed as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, seems on its face to be much more unusual. The NYT reports that other Navy SEAL candidates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}