A short YouTube video by Dr. Anne Truong (Jan 2, 2024) explaining that masturbation can help erectile dysfunction by producing erections that increase penile blood flow and oxygen, exercise the smooth muscle, and prevent atrophy or scar formation — but should be done in moderation. She warns that forceful or prolonged masturbation can cause trauma, notes age-related declines in testosterone and common ED risk factors (obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking, poor sleep, stress), and recommends using a penis pump as a safer adjunct. She suggests masturbating about three to five times per week, promotes a penis pump sold in her Modern Man store, and advertises the Modern Man Club coaching program for natural ED recovery.
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Anne Truong MD
January 2, 2024
1% per year after age 35
About 20% (example given for a 55-year-old)
About three to five times per week
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Is masturbation good for ed, yes or no? Stay tuned and find out. What does masturbation have to do with erectile dysfunction? Well, is it good for ED or not so good for ed? The answer is yes and a little bit of no. So the bottom line is moderation. Masturbation is good for ED because when you masturbate, you get an erection. And when you get an erection, it brings in more blood flow to your penis, it brings more oxygen, it exercises the penis muscle and the penis start to expand and it prevents the penis muscle from atrophy or to even have scar tissue because it's not being used. So in a way it's a good form of exercise. So it is good for ed, because when you have ed, that means that you're not getting an erection or when you're not getting an erection in the penis. The penis is a muscle. It's a smooth muscle, which is a little bit different than the muscle in your arm, which is skeletal muscle. It's a smooth muscle because it's being controlled by the autonomic nervous system or your nervous system, called the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. However, it is a muscle, so if you don't use it, you will lose it, meaning you don't have an erection. Over time, the penis muscle will actually get smaller or atrophy. It's not getting enough oxygen and also it doesn't get expanded, so it starts to develop scar tissue. Masturbation allows you to have an erection and to exercise the penis muscle. It is good, a big good there. However, there is a small no, in a sense that older men, or when you get older, you tend to have erectile dysfunction, not because of age, but because as you get older you tend to gain weight. Because you gain weight, you don't exercise, you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. And those are risk factors for ED because all those factors contribute to decreased blood flow. As we also know that not sleeping enough, as well as stress, as well as smoking, all contribute to decreased blood flow. And that just happened to be more common when you get older. Not necessarily age as you get older that causes ed. But something do happen when you get older is that your testosterone level falls 1% after the age of 35 annually. So every year you fall 1%. Let's say you're a 55 year old guy. By the time you're 55 years old, you have decreased 20% of your testosterone. Now, interestingly, when your testosterone level drop, your penis muscle also respond to that as well. Because it has less receptor that receive testosterone in the penis. And so the venous muscle tend to be less sensitive. And when it becomes less sensitive, it may not be as sensitive to touch or sensitive to arousal to get an erection. But know that decreased testosterone alone does not contribute to ed. ED happened for multiple factors such as I mentioned earlier, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, being overweight and smoking and stress and not enough sleep. Now that compound that would decrease testosterone, then you have decreased blood flow and therefore ed. So I'm trying to get at is that when you have decreased testosterone, you have less sensitivity in your penis. When you have less sensitivity in your penis, you tend to squeeze a little bit harder on the penis. When you're trying to masturbate, maybe you're bending a little bit too much or you're spending quite a while trying to masturbate. If you spend like an hour trying to get an erection and if you're being forceful, it actually cause some damage to the penis muscle and that can cause a trauma to the penis and will make the ED worse. So that's something to bear in mind in that when you masturbate, don't go too hard or too long, just go just enough so that way you don't over exhaust the penis. Now when you masturbate, you can always use the penis pump. I love using the penis pump for the penis because it's taking the penis to the gym. And the penis pump is just create a vacuum and assist you in getting an erection without using your hand forcefully to prevent you from getting damage to the penis. So you can use the penis pump to get you halfway there and then use your hand for the rest. So something to consider combining it with the penis pump. Here is the electric penis pump where you put the penis through here and then you turn on the pump and it suctioned the penis into the cylinder and it gets you started in your erection. And it really prevents a trauma to the penis if you use your hand too long. So you can get the penis pump right here at my modern man crib store as an adjunct to masturbation. And I do encourage you to use the penis pump and to masturbate perhaps three to five times a week. Almost like going to the gym almost at three to five times a week frequency. That way you're keeping the muscle healthy, getting more oxygen into the muscle and you're exercising it. And most importantly you preventing atrophy and the chance of developing guard tissue. So I hope you find this helpful and that hope you will reconsider the masturbation used jointly with the penis pump and the frequency is about three to five times a week at this point and you can get it here at the Modern man crib and I hope you find this useful and I hope that you will share like and comment and subscribe to my channel and that just know that we are creating a sexual revolution and that for to start out with don't rely on those ED medications. There are natural solutions to get out of ED and there's always a solution for ed. That's why I created the Modern Man Club is an online coaching program where I help you and coach you out of ED with natural solutions. So check out the Modern Man Club here on this link right here and I will see you in the next episode and and just know that you can live more and do more and be happy.
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