Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

How sleep affects your erection? #youtubeshorts #shorts #morningwood #morningerections #erections

2 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (Anne Truong MD) explaining that sleep is when the body heals physically and mentally and that hormone secretion during sleep (brain → hypopituitary/pituitary → testicles) supports erections. The speaker states sleeping from ~10:00 pm to ~6:00 am is when healing occurs and that getting at least seven hours of nighttime sleep affects hormone release, REM sleep, and therefore morning erections.

Questions this video answers

10pm to 6am.

Seven hours.

Chapters

When you're asleep from 10pm to 6am is when your body heals physically and mentally. As your body is healing, the hormones are starting to be secreted. It's being released from your brain here in the hypopituitary and then the pituitary gland and then goes to your testicles. So that's why sleep play a very important role in your erection. If you're not sleeping seven hours at nighttime, it's going to affect how your hormones being released and therefore it's going to affect your rapid eye movement, therefore it's going to affect your morning erection.