Dr. Justin Houman, MD

Medical Reviewer

Dr. Justin Houman, MD

Dr. Justin Houman is a board-certified urologist at Cedars-Sinai specialising in male sexual and reproductive health. He is a co-formulator of JOYMODE's Hard+ and reviews Wellness Desk's sexual-health content for medical accuracy.

Disclosure: Dr. Houman is a co-formulator of JOYMODE Hard+, a product reviewed on this site.

Reviewed for medical accuracy

Explainer · Longevity

Endothelial Function: The Cardiovascular Biomarker Nobody Measures

The lining of your blood vessels is a single cell thick and predicts cardiovascular events years ahead. It is also where erectile difficulty and cold hands come from.

Guide · Sexual Health

The Best Male Wellness Routines After 40

Most "after 40" advice is a list of twenty things. Here are the six that carry the weight, ranked by evidence, plus what to actually buy for each.

Product Review · Sexual Health

JOYMODE Hard+ Review

4 g of L-citrulline, a second nitric oxide pathway, and a fully disclosed label. The dose is the reason to consider it; the daily-use requirement is the reason people abandon it.

Product Review · Sexual Health

Bulk L-Citrulline Powder Review

The benchmark that exposes the rest of the category. One ingredient, the clinical dose, about 20 cents a serving — and no reason to buy anything that cannot beat it.

Explainer · Sexual Health

How Nitric Oxide Actually Produces an Erection

The mechanism in plain language, why it declines with age, and what that does and does not mean about supplements.

Product Review · Sexual Health

Juvenon BloodFlow-7 Review

Real patented ingredients behind a headline statistic that does not mean what the ads imply. The formula is defensible; the "230% nitric oxide" claim is not.

Product Review · Sexual Health

UMZU Redwood Review

Marketed as a nitric oxide booster, and there is not a single nitric oxide precursor in the formula. That is not a nitpick — it is the whole product.

Explainer · Sexual Health

How Long Should a Blood-Flow Supplement Take to Work?

Longer than the label implies and shorter than "give it a year." Here is what the trials actually measured, and what to check at each point.

Guide · Supplement Science

Supplement Safety: The Interactions Worth Knowing

Supplements are not inert. These are the combinations that actually send people to hospital, and the ones worth a call to your prescriber.

Ingredient · Sexual Health

L-Citrulline

The one nitric oxide precursor that survives digestion. What it does, the dose the research used, and how to tell a real dose from a decorative one.