Does masturbation reduce testosterone?@DrShahDupesh
So does masturbation reduce testosterone? Now in this quick video, we're going to answer, So watch the video till end. This is a very important topic. I know most of you have this doubt. You want to know the actual answer
to this question with scientific validation. Now remember, when you look at visual erotica, that is you look at appealing women on a screen, you look at models on the screen, you look at anything that's even remotely sexual on the screen, what's going to happen first is in your bloodstream, testosterone is going to go up. It's going to spike. So studies, have found that if you take a group of men and show them visual erotica, that is you show them sex videos or you show them single women who are engaging in self-stimulatory sexual behaviour, single women masturbating basically or you look at couples having sex on the screen and before even you actually start masturbating, testosterone and your sex steroids basically go up by about 36%. Mind boggling, isn't it? So what basically happens here is when we look at sexual material on the screen, you're going to feel a sense
of desire, you're going to feel aroused, physiologically aroused and you will want to engage in sexual outfit behaviour, that is either you will masturbate or you will go and try with your partner and have penetrative intercourse with her if you're in a stable relationship. Whether you're single, you either masturbate or if you're the kind of guy who goes and have casual sexual intercourse outside, you'll probably go out and have intercourse outside
either with a commercial sex worker or an escort girl or you'll be in a friends with benefits relationship or whatever, whatever that gets you high amount. You're going to do it, as simple as that, right? Or you're going to be the kind of guy who believes in a no fap technique, you're not going to do it. So whatever your outlet behavior, whatever your outlet behavior is, depending on you as an individual, that's going to happen. Now how does masturbation reduce testosterone? Now the answer is quite simple because what studies have found is before masturbation, testosterone rises, so after looking at something on the screen, during the actual masturbatory behaviour, again testosterone rises, post masturbation also testosterone rises. Does masturbation reduce testosterone? No, it
doesn't directly reduce testosterone. The most important point to understand here is that after masturbation, which is done after the semen has come out, not only testosterone rises, insulin, cortisol, adrenaline, which are basically stress hormones also rises, definitely adrenaline rises and cortisol, which is a stress hormone rises. Not just that serotonin and prolactin, which are sedating by nature, which will help you feel a sense
of satisfaction also rises in the brain. And that's why after masturbation, many men notice that they feel a bit tired, they feel a bit low, they are satisfied and they do not want to engage into another bout of sexual intercourse, be it solo or with a partner. So men go into
what's called as a refractory period. So what's here is when you do excessive masturbation and if masturbation is uncontrolled, you're always going to be in the refractory period. Why? Because in your brain, serotonin and prolactin is going to be high and even though testosterone increases even after masturbation, after ejaculation, your insulin, cortisol and other stress hormones go up, so you're going to feel stressed, you're going to feel
tired, you're not going to feel fresh and energetic or you're not going to technically feel that good. And what's very interesting here is that many men have what's called as semen loss anxiety syndrome, also called as DART syndrome. Especially, this is a culture bound condition where excessive masturbation, especially seen in Indian men, feel that once
the semen is lost from their body, they feel very tired, they feel weak, they feel depressed, they feel a shrinkage in the organ size, they have erectile dysfunction with their stable partners. So all this is there. So should masturbation be technically encouraged? No. Even though it increases your testosterone and doesn't reduce your testosterone, don't do it. Why? Logically again, let me reinforce what I'm telling. It increases cortisol, it
increases adrenaline, it increases the stress hormone levels in your blood and there are studies for this. And I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you got something of value to take back. So just avoid masturbation. Stop looking at pornographic content. Avoid the habit of masturbation. It's just not going to work. Hope you liked the video. Put in your comments below. Ask all your questions down below in the comments. I'll try my best
to answer each and every comment. I'll see you soon with another video. This is Dr. Shah signing off for now.

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