Regarding the myth of mutton, expert gastroenterologi from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Ari Syam revealed, there is a belief in the community that eating goat meat raises blood pressure. Because of that patients with hypotension or low blood pressure is recommended to eat goats to increase their blood pressure.
The public's assumption is wrong. According to Ari, low blood pressure can be caused by various things, among others; bleeding, dehydration, fatigue or lack of sleep. In addition, low tension can be caused due to a disruption to the heart either due to valve abnormalities or heart attacks and even heart failure.
"But in some people without seeing why the low blood pressure directly consumed goat meat excessively.If the tension dropped because of heart trouble eating goat meat it would be fatal and make things worse," Ari said as quoted by Antara.
Another myth, eating "torpedo" goat or sate goat half cooked will increase sexual arousal and performance. Ari admitted, indeed testis goats contain lots of testosterone, but actually increase sexual arousal occurs because multifaktor and not solely related to food.