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.
Hear from Dr. Chughtai
In the HELMD Journal
Articles Dr. Chughtai has written or reviewed for the HELMD Journal.
- Erectile Dysfunction by Decade: What Is Normal in Your 40s, 50s, 60s and Beyond
- Medications That Can Cause ED
- Enlarged Prostate and ED: Why They Travel Together
- The Heart-Erection Connection: What Erectile Dysfunction Signals, and What the Tadalafil Research Shows
- The Case for Daily Tadalafil
- Apomorphine: A Different Side to ED Treatment
- Your Brain's Role in Erections & Why Treatment Might Not Be Working
- Daily vs. On-Demand ED Treatment: Which Is Right for You?
- HELMD Drive vs. BlueChew: How Do They Compare?
- HELMD Drive vs. Hims Hard Mints: How Do They Compare?
- HELMD Drive vs. Ro Sparks: How Do They Compare?
- The Strongest ED Treatments in 2026: Pills, Combinations, and Sublinguals Compared
- HELMD vs. Rugiet: How Do They Compare?
- How Drive Works: The Science of a Sublingual ED Tablet
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