Podcast episode by Dr. Anne Truong (Dec 5, 2023) titled "The Four Types of Erection Every Man Should Know." The host defines four erection types — reflex, psychogenic, nocturnal (morning/nighttime wood), and intercourse-driven — describes typical nocturnal erection frequency and duration, notes priapism threshold (>4 hours), gives an estimated average time to ejaculation (~6–7 minutes), and offers lifestyle and medical advice to preserve erectile function (Mediterranean diet, BMI <30, 30 minutes exercise/day, avoid smoking/vaping/drugs, manage stress). Call-to-action promotes a free ebook and a membership club for holistic ED support.
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We all know about erection, but do you know there are four types of erection? Yes, four. So most people often associate erection with sex, but erection can happen without any type of sexual activity activity or when you're asleep. So there are four types of erection. The first one is called reflux erection. This happens when something touches your penis and it triggers an arousal. So this is just involving the nerve from your penis through the spine around your butt and come back again. It's like a loop like this. And an erection that happened with sexual foreplay and with masturbation, it actually sometimes would take the brain out of it as well too. Number two, the second erection is psychogenic erection or an erection that you have when you're thinking about it. When you have fantasies or sexual memories and it just stimulates here in your brain, you just have this image and it sends messages down your spinal cord to your penis to cause an erection. This is without physical touch. The third type of erection is called your usual morning wood, but nighttime wood as well too. It happens when you're asleep, especially in your deep stages of sleep, like REM or rapid eye movement. And you can actually have morning wood three to six times in one night. And it can last from five minutes to 30 minutes. It's almost like your penis trying to do a pushup. Because when you have the nighttime erection or morning erection, your penis get the increased blood flow, gets oxygen in there, the muscle gets expanded and it exercises. So when you're not having morning wood, that's actually a symptom that you should be looking at or you start to have ed. And the fourth type of erection is what you think about as the intercourse erection. When you start getting aroused by the five senses with what you see, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear, what you touch, and then those send messages down from your brain to your penis. That's what you would think about this having sex. Now, interestingly, how long can the average man stay hard well, an erection can last anywhere from a few minutes to actually a few hours. But if you have an erection more than four hours, that's considered priapism, or an erection lasting than four hours. So there isn't really an average time how long an erection should last. But in general, the average amount of time a man has an erection during sexual intercourse before they ejaculate is about 6, 7 minutes. However, several factors can affect how long an erection lasts, like your age, what medication you're on, your stress level, and also the amount of alcoholic beverages that are involved as well. Because as you know, drink too much alcohol, you will have whiskey dip, which is not getting a firm erection. Now, what makes someone get an erection and maintain an erection? Because now you know there are four erections. Now you know how long an erection can last generally to ejaculation. Now, how can you maintain an erection? And the answer is a little bit different in that is extremely personal and unique to the person. However, as you age, you tend to have more medical diseases such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, you gain weight, you may have more or less stress, so that will affect how your erection is also. But generally speaking, there are some things that you can do to help your erection. Example number one, eat a healthy diet and maintain a healthy weight. What's a healthy diet? A Mediterranean diet. Try to keep your weight down to a BMI of less than 30. Exercise at least 30 minutes a day will also help with maintaining your erection because when you exercise, eat a healthy diet, your cholesterol will be lower, your blood sugar will be controlled, and also your high blood pressure will also be controlled as well too. Also take note that sometimes you take medicine for high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or sleeping medicine or antidepressant medicine. Those medicine can also affect your erection. But you want to maintain your erection and have a good heart erection. You should also avoid using vaping or misusing illegal drugs and stop smoking because that will decrease the blood flow and affect the firmness of your erection as well. And last but not least, minimize and control your stress because stress will put a dampener on that erection all the way from your head to your penis. So having said that, I hope you find it helpful. I would appreciate if you like comment and subscribe and know that the modern man, you can live more, love more and be happy. And I would appreciate it if you will check out the link down below to go to my free ebook. And that is the five common mistake men make when facing ED and in there I give you tips on how to restore your sex life again and what you can do about it right then and now. And having said that, I will see you in the next episode. 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