I'm not sure if it was in the book or not, but one thing I've seen that seems more reliable than most is L-Arginine (which is an amino acid). You can get it by itself or in a blend with other ingredients; the main blend I've seen is called ArginMax, GNC and Wal-Mart both have them. The ArginMax has at least some science behind it.
As to approaches to life, I know military doctrine holds that you can't "win" a defensive war; the best that produces is stalemate. So for what it's worth that's more validation for the "front 9" approach. Hope things work out!
HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin...sometimes he feels that there really is another way [of coming downstairs], if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.