Why I joined HELMD
I've spent my career in academic urology caring for men with sexual-health and lower-urinary-tract conditions, and running the clinical trials that test whether our treatments actually work. What I've learned is simple: erectile dysfunction is common, it's treatable, and yet far too many men never get evidence-based care — held back by stigma, cost, or the hassle of being seen.
I joined HELMD because it sets out to fix that without cutting corners. The formulations are built around compounds with real clinical evidence behind them, and every prescription is reviewed by a licensed provider before anything is dispensed. That combination — genuine access alongside genuine medical oversight — is what convinced me it was worth my name.
Selected publications
A selection of Dr. Chughtai's peer-reviewed work, most relevant to men's health. Each opens on PubMed.
- Metabolic syndrome and sexual dysfunction
- Erectile Dysfunction is a Transient Complication of Prostate Biopsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- The effect of diet on benign prostatic hyperplasia, lower urinary tract symptoms and erectile dysfunction
- Effect of phosphodiesterase inhibitors in the bladder
- Testosterone and benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Treating Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men with Benign Prostatic Obstruction: A Review Article
- Management of Chronic Prostatitis
- The Prostatic Urethral Lift Procedure: Enough Bang for the Buck?
- Surgical treatment options for benign prostatic obstruction: beyond prostate volume
- New Technologies for Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Anticholinergic Burden in the Elderly Population: An Emerging Concern