Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Understanding the Impact of Aging on Morning Erections #youtubeshorts #shorts #morningwood #ed

3 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube-short by Anne Truong MD explaining that morning erections (morning wood) tend to become less frequent with age largely because older adults are more likely to have poorer sleep, higher stress, and cardiometabolic conditions (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity) that affect hormone secretion. She states that nocturnal/morning erections can persist lifelong and that their presence indicates intact penile vascular and nerve function; she suggests lifestyle modification may restore on-demand erections.

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As you get older, you may get less morning wood. It's because as you get older, you're more prone to maybe not getting as much sleep. You're more prone to be more stressed. Yeah. High blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes or obesity. All of those factors play a role in your hormone secretion. At nighttime, however, you can continue to get morning wood until the day you die. So a sign of having morning wood. It's a sign that, hey, the plumbing is still working in your penis, the nerve is still working in your penis, and you just need to kind of tweak a little bit of lifestyle modification in order for you to get an erection on demand again.