Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why Stress Kills Morning Wood 🪵 #MensHealthTips

2 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief health monologue, the speaker explains that chronic mental stress—exemplified by constant exposure to distressing news—raises cortisol levels, lowers testosterone, and heightens systemic inflammation. These hormonal and inflammatory shifts impair vascular health and reduce blood flow to the penis, together diminishing the occurrence of morning erections (often called "morning wood"). The speaker advises limiting news consumption and focusing on controllable reactions to stress, emphasizing that while external stressors are unavoidable, personal responses are within one's control.

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Randy said, mental stress from watching news report of ice, terrorizing people, messing with your sleep and raise cortisol and craving for junk food. Well, when you're stressed out, that is going to affect your because when you're stressed, your testosterone gets lower. When your testosterone is lower, it's going to affect morning wood. And then when you're stressed, it also increase inflammation, which then affect the blood vessels not being a hundred percent healthy, which then affect blood flow. So chronic stress combine decreasing blood flow along with decreasing your testosterone. And so don't watch the news. I'll do a recap here and there. But those are the things you can't control, Randy. You can't control, you know, all of that. You can control how you react to it, but you can't control all that is happening.