Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1450: Five Ways to Improve Your Erection

Episode Date: December 21, 2020

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss five steps guys can take to improve their erection. Erectile dysfunction, a clear example of poor health in young males. (2:01) The challenging side effects of this disorder. (4:50) Five Ways to Improve Your Erection. (7:20) #1 – Lifting weights. (7:35) #2 – Follow a balanced diet. (14:10) #3 – Get good sleep and manage your stress. (22:25) #4 – Get rid of endocrine disruptors. (24:45) #5 – Do not become desensitized to pornography. (28:45) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Legion Athletics for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** December Special: 3 MAPS Bundles for your level of fitness! Men in their 30s hit by impotence epidemic as half suffer from erectile dysfunction 3 Other Benefits to Resistance Training – Mind Pump Blog Common Signs of Low Testosterone – Mind Pump Blog Cholesterol For Muscle Gains – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump #1345: 6 Ways To Optimize Sleep For Faster Muscle Gain And Fat Loss Mind Pump #1402: Good Stress Vs. Bad Stress & How To Know The Difference The BEST Natural Testosterone Booster – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump #1230: Surviving & Thriving In A Toxic World With Max Lugavere Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Max Lugavere (@maxlugavere)  Instagram

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Hey, you guys. Know how last week I think it was. I brought up that survey from the UK about like man and erectile dysfunction Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so that was that big survey and according to the survey something like almost 50% of the men Is that what it was? Yeah, it was like 40 something percent of the man in the survey said they had suffered from erectile dysfunction What was the age group of people? Yeah, I was gonna say it was a younger. They were younger. Yeah, they were younger So it was kind of interesting and so So I pulled up some statistics on it because from what I've read, it seems to be climbing. It says, I just looked it up and it says that it affects about 30 million men in the United

States. One out of 10 men is estimated to have erectile dysfunction. The US has the highest rate of self-reported erectile dysfunction. It affects about 10% of men per decade of life. In other words, 50% of men in the 50s, 40% of more in the 40s, 30% in the 30s and so on. So men in older than 40 or three times is likely to experience erectile dysfunction than younger men. So it's a thing. Yeah, it's one of those clear examples of poor health.

Yeah, and it's funny because we've talked about this on the podcast before, how men's testosterone levels have been declining now for decades. I think since the 70s, since they've been kind of testing it, I wonder if they go kind of hand in hand because now we're starting to see this issue. I always surprised how many DMs that I got when we started talking about, when I came off at testosterone and we were having that conversation quite a bit, right?

Around that time, like was it three years ago or so when... Has it been that long? Yeah, well. Yeah, it's been three years now, over three years, when I talked about coming off at testosterone and just the depression I felt and then the lack of any sort of energy or wanting to go to lift. And I got a lot of DMs. And what surprised me the most about the DMs were they weren't other, you know, 40 year old plus men that were DMing me and saying that they struggled with the same thing.

It was young men. Yeah. It was a lot of young guys in their early 20s, some even teens, but probably averaging between 18 and 25 was like the whole. It makes you think how much of the environment has changed or anything that has affected this to be where we're at right now with younger generation

coming up and this being a problem already. Yeah, well for a long time, we've connected a Ract erectile dysfunction with poor health because it's a vascular system, right? When you get an erection, you, the blood vessels dilate, blood has to flow in there. And if you have erectile dysfunction,

one of the first things a doctor will do is look at blood pressure and blood lipid levels because it's one of those things that can be an indicator of poor health, but aside from that, you know, for men, I could... It's hard to think of something that would make you feel that would be more challenging to deal with, right? Because it's kind of like a party identity as a man.

Especially if you're a very ego-centric. Yeah, especially if you're with your partner and you love them, you're attracted to them and then this happened and you're just like, you know, you're gonna try and explain yourself or what. Oh, it was the depression that I went through afterwards was probably one of the more challenging things that I'd ever been through for sure.

And it's not like one of those, it's not like a single day thing either. It's not like one day you feel bad and then it's a bad day and you're depressed and then the next day you kind of snap out of it. It's like this ongoing battle that you feel of these ups and downs and you know, and then you know, you know the things that you're supposed to do and when you are trying to do that and you have no motivation, no drive to that, it just makes it that much harder.

So it's kind of like the spiraling effect down when you get hit with something like this and then and then I also think too There's a lot of things today that We are dealing with that we weren't really dealing with like just you know two decades ago And we I think we alluded to that podcast when we brought this up One of those being like porn and stuff like that. It wasn't as readily available as it is today, as it was for us when we were kids, and even just teching be on our phones and being distracted all day long.

It has to be a factor in terms of being desensitized somewhat to the experience of it in general and the connection of it. Sure. I didn't realize, or actually, okay, when I first got into fitness, I had a big passion for it. And as I started training clients, especially as I started training older clients, right, I had a big passion for it. And as I started training clients,

especially as I started training older clients, and when I say older, remember, I started at the age of 18. So when I, for me, older was anybody. Yeah, everybody else. Anybody over at the age of 35, right? But I used to start, I would get these comments from my clients about their libido. And at the age of 18, and it realized that exercise

had an effect on libido or whatever, and they even thought of it. But these clients would come to me and they'd say, my male clients would tell me, oh man, my libido's like it was when I was younger, and my older, older older clients, right? People in their 16 above, they would kind of bring it up a little bit like they'd come up to me and say things like,

hey, I'm noticing some changes, and I say, oh, you're getting leaner. Oh, not really quite. I have more energy. changes and I say, oh, you're getting leaner. No, not really quite. I have more energy. I mean, oh, you're waking up early. Not that kind of energy and then I'd get it. I was like, oh, it's affecting energy. Yeah, so exercise has a profound impact on those things.

So, I know we're not necessarily medical experts on erectile dysfunction, but we do talk a lot about health and there's a very strong connection with health and your ability to achieve erection. One of the first things you can do, and you can actually look this up, and what they'll say in medical literature, is to exercise. In my experience with clients that I've worked with, lifting weights produces the most profound effect when it comes to libido,

and with men when it comes to erectile dysfunction. I remember Adam, when you had come off testosterone, you said when you'd lift weights you could tell. You know, and I don't know if, when we put this together, right, if you guys were thinking like the order that we listed them in as far as the priority, I think we were just kind of spouting off all things

that we think are important when we are taking notes. But in my opinion, that was the single biggest difference maker. So yeah, like the other ones that will cover, I think I felt the difference or make a difference. But nothing felt like it impacted that more than just lifting heavy. And the thing that I think is important, or at least I felt was important for me, was that it had to be careful on how much I did. So, you know, the first thing is like, oh, lifting weights, makes your libido go up

and helps you with erections. And then also you go, oh, well, then more of it must be better. And I found that there was like a very specific dose to me that made that impact. And any more than that didn't necessarily make a difference. And so, and that was literally just two to three times a week, a full body type of strength routine.

I would always feel the next 24 hours after that, I noticed a difference. And then if I would try to push it to four or five days, I felt like I was more sluggish and it didn't actually help the same way. Right, well, resistance training is the one form of exercise that has been clearly shown to raise testosterone.

Now, all forms of exercise, if they improve your health, and you have low testosterone, will improve your testosterone. But only resistance training raises testosterone in all men. So if your testosterone levels are normal, and you lift weights, they go higher. If they're high and you lift weights, they go even higher.

And definitely if they're low, they go up. And that's part of the adaptation process that resistance training asks your body to do. It's telling your body to add new tissue, new active tissue, which requires more of the anabolic hormone testosterone. So it's literally directly telling your body raised testosterone. That's what I like to suggest lifting weights and not just this general exercise, because

a lot of people would throw running in there. And I would argue that somebody in this context who is already potentially low testosterone erectile dysfunction, maybe battling depression, whatever, and then you go tell them, I'm going to go for a run and they go for these long runs. I don't think that that would, I mean, in the context of losing body fat and if that brought their body fat percentage down below 15%, it could help. It could help. I could see that.

Maybe if they use it as like a de-stress like mentally, like it's something they did that was like therapeutic in that way, but yeah, like what's missing is the drive. And you know, and testosterone and focusing on being able to elevate your testosterone by lifting heavy weights is definitely a benefit in the structure. Well, I guess it would also benefit circulation too, right? So you're getting out and running and moving, it's going to improve that.

And since that has to do with, you know, being able to get an erection, I think that would also benefit. But I could also see where really easily you could overdo that. And then the opposite would happen. Well, there's a connection with endurance, exercise, and low testosterone. So over endurance, exercise applied often can lower testosterone levels. Strength training done properly does the opposite.

And like I said, it reliably raises testosterone. But you can overdo it too. Like Adam said, you need to do the right amount. And in my experience, if you're getting stronger, that's the one of the best signs that'll tell you that you're moving in the right amount and in my experience, if you're getting stronger, that's the one of the best signs that'll tell you that you're moving in the right direction. Now, you did talk about blood flow. You did talk about improving cardiovascular

or vascular, I should say, health. In the past, we thought it was cardio that did that better than anything else. Studies now show that resistance training does it just as well. Oh, is that true? That's right. I didn't know that. Just as well, if not better.

Now, here's the other part of it, and I'm going to go a little side track here. The pelvic floor muscles and men are also very important to achieving an erection. Some of the best pelvic floor exercises a man can do are resistance training exercises, squats and lunges and hip thrusts and deadlifts, strength in the muscles that support the pelvic floor, weak pelvic floor muscles in men, also cause problems just like they do. Is that connected to ED? It is. Oh, I didn't know that. It is also connected. Oh, that's interesting. So resistance training the best form of exercise

for this particular reason. Then there's a psychological piece. Okay, let's let's all be you know clear here Obviously an erection is a very masculine thing Improving your masculine feeling or your masculinity or at least the way you look to be more masculine might psychologically also help you Building muscle just does that right if a If a man builds muscle, he automatically starts to feel more confident, a little bit more masculine, that psychological piece can also help quite a bit with the erection situation. So definitely lift weights and for most guys,

for health purposes, two to three days a week of a full body workout is probably all you need, straight sets, focus on the big compound list. I also would give recommendation of two of just trying to avoid having a sedentary lifestyle. So even if you go to the gym three days a week and you just lift, but then the rest of your day, you sit on a chair or you sit at a computer and stare at the screen, I think there's just a lot of benefits of just getting in the habit of moving and talking about improving circulation, just you getting up and taking walks and getting outside, you get outside benefits of the

sun and things like that. So, you know, my prescription for myself or what I would help clients with this in this situation is this two to three day week strength-based program and then also trying to include more walking outside on a regular basis, I think, can make a big difference. Everything in an active body pretty much functions a lot better. Yeah, I would say for me, my approach with the walking is just the one that I found the work best I can stick to is 10 to 15 minute walk after breakfast lunch and dinner. It turns into 30 to 40 minutes of walking throughout the day.

And because it's attached to breakfast lunch and dinner, I'm just more consistent. It's easier than scheduling a 45 minute walk. Now speaking of that, that's the other thing that I think is important is also diet. And by diet, I think following a diet can be really dangerous in this situation, right? Like there's so many popular diets right now

where we're eliminating a macronutrient and the general recommendation that I'm giving to someone like this. Now mind you, if you have special conditions where you need to, that's one thing, but for the general population that is following some generic diet where you eliminate a macro in there because you're trying to lose body fat. This person, I actually care about them having a more balanced diet than anything else. Yes, nutrient deficiencies are one of the first places

that a doctor will look if you suffer from a rectile dysfunction, from a nutritional standpoint. Zinc and vitamin D in particular, if those are low, then you can start to notice issues with testosterone and with vascular health. So zinc, you can find to notice issues with testosterone and with with with vascular health. So zinc, you can find, and there's that hole. What's that myth? Like, like, was it clams or that are oysters? Oysters are like a fatigue. Yeah, I suppose make you horny, right? Yeah. And that's because they have

their high in zinc. That's what they come from. So shellfish or high in zinc meat is high in zinc. That's the whole pineapple thing. Something totally different. Eggs are high in colean. Colean is also beneficial. And some scientists would say or some nutritionists would say colean should be considered an essential nutrient because lacking colean can cause some serious problems. Eggs, whole eggs are a wonderful health food. Now, when we were doing this, like, because my protocol was less about erectile dysfunction

and just generally getting my testosterone levels, I was following a balanced diet and then you were also having me supplement a few things. Talk a little bit about those and does this apply to this person also? Yeah, so supplement for your deficiency. So if you get tested and you find D or zinc, for example, is low supplement with those.

And then there's some herbs that you can take that seem to help. Ashwagandha is pretty healthy. Yeah. And has been shown to help man with low testosterone and with erectile dysfunction. Yeah, I've also heard you talk a lot about cholesterol, even if there's a deficiency there, and maybe introducing that. That's an old, so here's a thing with dietary cholesterol. That's an old bodybuilding thing that I have noticed personally,

and I've also had clients. Just anecdotally. Yeah, just like increasing my diet. Not making claims, but I know I noticed that too. Yeah, well cholesterol is a base steroid chemical, right? So your body takes that and turns it into all kinds of different including testosterone So old-school bodybuilders would increase their cholesterol intake And by the way very few some people have their lipids will go all over the place if you do this

Most people won't most people this is totally fine You'll notice almost like this boost of testosterone from doing it now What's your thoughts on processed foods? Is this something that you would right away cycle somebody off of? Totally, right? Because you're going to overeat. Process food encourages overeating. They're not typically as healthy.

Here's another one too, avoid alcohol. You know, in that same survey that I talked about with the, with the England, it was in the UK where they, it was like almost half of the man had a rectal dysfunction. One of the number one reasons they said was alcohol consumption. Yeah. So what about marijuana right now? See, that's, that's, that one's funny.

There are animal studies reliably show testosterone or anabolic hormones lowering, getting lowered from chronic marijuana. The human studies are mixed. Some say, my, some say it doesn't, but an animal study is pretty reliable. I've had clients go off or reduce marijuana and notice improvements personally.

And then I know people who use marijuana and it helps with their erections. Yeah. So, really? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe, I guess it, I guess, maybe the psychological part, right? I think it's that, if you were somebody who's feeling good,

right, in your head or some of that, and then that kind of lightens, loosens the mood or lightens you up a little bit, and then you can get into the mood. I could see how that potentially could help. But for me, if I smoked too much, it was, it actually, I felt like it lowered my mind. It actually has a little bit of an estrogenic effect

on some of the... Well, I mean, I told you that when we were first going through all that when I came off, the gynecumastia, my gynecum would flare up from that. I noticed that from any time I was, if I was excessively smoking, that it would flare up really bad, I'd take a whole day off, it would go completely away. Well, I know if a young man goes to the doctor with estrogen issues, that sometimes they, well, often the last, do you smoke marijuana? Let's get you off that and see what happens.

And how much does that make a difference too, is just how our estrogen levels to our testosterone with ED. So if I get, like if I happen to have like really high estrogen levels as a male, will that affect my erection? Oh, totally. So this is from bodybuilders, right?

Bodybuilders use animal steroids and there are estrogen levels are always all over the place, right? Cause they're testosterone will be so high from the steroids that they take that a big chunk of it gets converted to estrogen. And if their estrogen is too high, they notice that they're not able to get erections or the libido is down on the opposite end of the scale, same thing. If they hammer estrogen with anti-estrogen drugs, they'll also notice libido issues.

You know, that reminds me to talking about that. What I always noticed when I started to get close to a show was, you know, running too low a calorie for too long. So yeah, here's the thing you got to be careful and I've seen this happen with clients where a doctor is telling them, oh, you know, exercise, diet and exercise lose weight. They're giving that as a recommendation. So this kid goes, they obsessively do it. Right. So then this kid starts exercising, reduces his calories dramatically, and sure, maybe the scale is going down a

little bit, but it's not helping his ED anymore because of how low calorie he is too. Yeah. In fact, being too lean or too fat, you'll have issues with this. Too fat, I think that one's kind of widely understood. That if you're over weight, you got poor vascular health, your blood lipids are off, that has been shown in the scientific literature to negatively affect the quality and amount of erections that a guy will get. What's not as common at least, or in the mainstream, is understanding how getting to lean will cause that.

But you talk to anybody who gets super shredded for a bodybuilding competition or physique or anybody who gets super lean for a photo shoot, any guy and ask them about their libido and they'll tell you it's in the tank. Getting too lean can cause problems as well. And I know in my experience, once I got below 9% body fat, I started to personally start to notice some effects.

Some guys might need to get a little leaner. Other guys, you know, not so lean, and they'll still notice. What's the prevailing theory on that? Well, getting too lean, okay, anything that tells you... Because you would think, okay, someone who's shredded, right, because it seems a little counter, right? Like, why would this dude who is lifting weights like crazy, even on testosterone, all of a sudden, they have problems getting arrested.

Well, think about it this way, right? If your body feels like it's not a good idea to procreate, then it's gonna lower your ability to have- So it's a similar thing for females, right? It's a women who weigh more sensitive. They lose their period, they get too lean. Yeah, and they get, they're way more sensitive, like, because a guy can get really lean

compared to a woman and not have negative issues. Women have to maintain much higher body fat than men do, but still getting too lean. And it's also the process of getting really lean, right? When you're, when you're the process of getting really, really lean usually involves a lot of exercise and a low calorie diet. And over time that stresses the body.

It's physically exhausting. No, I know there is a, there's a wide range because of the individual variance, but what's the literature say about like the eight, I mean there is a wide range because of the individual variance, but what's the literature say about like the eight, I mean the percentage range, like where should you be like for a man? Well, I know from what I've read below, I want to say below eight percent is where they start to say, yeah, you probably don't want to do that.

And I think essential body fat for men is, if I'm not mistaken, four percent, essential meaning like below four percent, you're starting to get just straight up dangerous. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know. I don't quite know. Yeah. I know there's a variance too. Right. So it might be a but then some guys will report at six. They feel amazing. So there's always going to be a little bit of a good theory. I always felt good once I got below 9 or 8. Once I got below 9 or 8, I could tell. Like I'm not feeling you know nearly as good. Yeah. But again, it's a stress on the body, which takes us to the next one, which is get really good sleep and manage your stress.

Poor sleep just makes you feel shitty across the board. And I don't think people, a lot of people don't realize this. You don't have to have like terrible sleep. You just have to have kind of not good sleep for a long period of time. When you then you start to notice a big difference. I know for me, once I was a six or seven hour a night guy, no problem, every single night,

and I was able to function and I thought I was okay. I didn't notice a difference until I went in prioritize sleep. Once I prioritize eight hours a night, then I realized how I felt before. I didn't realize it because it was a contrast wasn't there. Well, I don't know if this is like completely, I'm sure it's related on some level,

but like, you know, the whole morning wood thing, like if you're getting a lot of shitty sleep and a rug, like that tends to be something I would notice is like versus really good sleep and you're waking up and noticing that, you know, that it's there. Yeah, a good, a sleep routine is really makes a big difference. I think a lot of people these days have issues with sleep

because they just take for granted that they can go hit the pillow and then go to sleep. They don't treat it, they don't give themselves time to wind down. And this is a very simple thing that I've had clients do that has had great success with a lot of them is just an hour before bed. An hour before bed, you put on your blue light blocking glasses or you go by candlelight, turn off electronics, and just allow yourself to wind down. That tells your body to get ready for sleep. Then when you go to sleep and turn lights off, the brain is already prepared.

Do you think that has a lot to do with us just being bombarded with all kinds of stress? And that's our main way of kind of resetting it. And if you're getting bombarded all day, and then in addition to that, you also don't get good sleep. It's just piling it on versus really helping it. You probably recover.

Yeah, and think about this way too, with stress nowadays, like it wasn't that long ago that when you at work, you had work, and then when you got home, work was done. Yeah. It's literally with you. It's with you all the time, right?

Your email is right there, your text messages right there, your phone's always on you. So stress now, we don't get breaks from it. Like we may not have to. I have to physically put all these barriers in place. I gotta put my phone in a completely different room. I have to dim the lights, I have to, you know,

make sure my room's cool. Like all these things I really had to start to considering in order to get that kind of sleep, that's that deep sleep that you really feel rejuvenated from. Well, Sal, what's your thoughts then on, you know, and our buddy Max, I know Lugavir talks a lot about this that like all the chemicals that are in plastics

and in certain foods and stuff like that, like how much do you think this is? And I've seen stuff around here to like kind of scare people and like doing any of that. I don't think it's, I personally don't think it's one of the big rocks, but I mean, how important do you think it is to be paying attention to those things? Like BPA and like what are they?

So those are endocrine disruptors, right? So these are chemicals that chemically can interact with like your estrogen receptor in your body. So it's like telling your body, it has more estrogen even though it doesn't. Here's the problem with it it is that they're everywhere. So I don't think it's one thing. I don't think it's like, oh, it's your deodorant.

Oh, it's your shampoo. Oh, it's the plastic that you warmed your food up in. I think it's just a combination of all these different things that might be causing things. Because honestly, they're really trying to figure out why testosterone levels have been plummeting for so long. And believe it or not, this is one of the main reasons they think it is.

It's literally all these chemicals. They do. And it's just, there's so many of them. They're everywhere. It's like, you remember, okay, you know non-stick pans, for example, you know that they're chemical in the non-stick pan. Tests long or whatever.

Yeah, it comes off in your food. And they'll test your blood, it's in your blood, it's in your system, you know, or fire retardants that they just spray on. So we're talking about, too, like in our drinking water, how like all these chemicals have just found their way and just from people peeing and then recycling the water. I read that. So I read this article about how people throw the prescription drugs in the toilet and

also, yeah, like women on birth control, a tiny amount comes out in their urine, but so many women take birth control and it's been, you know, obviously they pee all the time or whatever, and you drink water all the time, right? You drink water all the time. So it's like this tiny bit of birth control that you drink all the time. So then, okay, so what's your coaching a client?

He's 20 years old, he's got this issue, we've gone this far already, we've addressed all the big rock so far, you're now getting to this conversation around these chemicals, how do you advise the order of operation here? I think an easy one is like, things like this, if you have a bad habit of, because I was guilty of this, a bad habit of when I was competing, I was carrying around plastic tub wear.

Doug, as a matter of fact, Doug was the one who's bought me my first, I think, set a... You're like a microwave with it. Yeah, I would microwave this plastic. Yeah, that's a big one. Right, so I think that, and it's an easy fix, right?

Throw away all that plastic, start storing it all in glass. I'm doing it so often, I would think that that, for me, when I look at all the possibilities that could or the biggest offenders, I thought, okay, that's an easy switch and it could help, right? Yeah, that one then. So talking to Max, you know what's a big one? I don't realize this.

Receipts, grocery store receipts or retail receipts. I remember he brought that up. They're coded in some of these chemicals. He says every time you touch him, you scratch and sniff. He says when you touch him, you're absorbing ridiculous amounts of these chemicals. Really? Yeah, believe it or not.

And I looked it up and he's absolutely, and you never touch him how they're kind of waxing. Yeah, yeah. So when they say, would you like a receipt, I'm like, no, no, no. It's already stored in my credit card or whatever. Wow, that's interesting. That would be one of the big ones.

Yeah, that one and then filter water right filter your water So that it's it's clean and it's getting out whatever I've been there carry him around a nice canister or not in the plastic Yes, especially if you have a plastic container, you leave in your car. Oh, yeah double whammy Yeah, if it's cold if it gets really cold or really hot So if you leave in your car and it's like snowing or if it's hot Then it starts to leak the oh really cold will do that too. It does.

I knew really hot did I go, I mean, I've done that before, where you like grab it and you drink it and then it tastes like, yeah, you taste the gross thing. It just happened, yeah. It's like a soup of, this can't be good.

Estrogen water, this is toxic chemicals. No, no, yeah. So those would be the bigger ones. And then the last one, this one's one that's relatively new. And it didn't become a problem until maybe what, 15, 15, 20 years. I mean, when I was a kid, this wasn't really an issue.

And that's pornography. You know, as a kid, you know, I saw pornography. I think everybody has, but it was so less available, so valuable, because it was so hard to find. I mean, I, but it was so much less available, so valuable, because it was so hard to find. I mean, I remember, it wasn't as socially accepted as it is today. Like today, it's like very accepted. Well, even then, you get the softer forms of that,

even through Instagram, and you're just inundated constantly with people that are scantily clad and wearing barely anything. Ain't that the truth? I feel as a young teenage boy, I feel like my head was exploded. Instagram was what my porn was. Like, I mean, that would be the stuff

that you see on Instagram every day as a young kid was like what I found as a teenage boy. To me. I'm telling you, people laugh. I told this to my son and I have this conversation because he's 15, so he's like right in the middle of, he's at the peak of like, oh, I wanna, you know, see that kind of stuff.

And so I have these conversations, I said, look, when I was a kid, it was so unavailable that it was not uncommon to, you would grab a magazine that would be like a JC Penny, you know, bra section, you know, because it just wasn't available. This is 100% true. Or, you know, God forbid your dad had a JC Penny, you know, bra section, you know, because it just wasn't available. This is 100% true. Or, you know, God forbid your dad had a national geographic. You're like, oh, there might be a natural naked boob in there.

It was super, super rare. You couldn't find it. And so we didn't get desensitized, like you can now with pornography where it's available online so you can hide and get any, I mean, when we were younger, if you want to get porn, you had to like... There was a curtain. Yeah. And he had to like do the walk of shame, like through the curtain and all the beads. And then you know, everybody knows where you are and what you're trying

to find in the video store. Or the guy behind the counter, you bought the magazine, he knows what you bought. You're not going to go back there every single day to get a different magazine. Right, right. Because otherwise you look like a creep or whatever. So it's so available now and it's everywhere to the point where it starts to, so this has never happened in human history, right? We are desensitizing ourselves to visual stimuli, no different than food.

Yeah, it's like junk food. It's everywhere. It's like we've mastered the, I don't think we're gonna have a famine anytime soon, because of the way that we've been able to engineer food and provide, they meant like a porn famine, that's right. Oh, yeah, porn famine. Like, nah, you're right.

That's not gonna happen. Well, you know that there's, so it's funny because there's actually groups online, like Reddit will have these forums and stuff where they're called no FAP, you know, no FAP groups. And these are young men that are going on there and saying, I'm not watching pornography anymore because I wasn't able to get,

like I was having a direct-solid issues with my girlfriend or I was more into porn than I was into real people. So it's a real thing now that really we didn't have to, like I didn't have to like, you know, watch my use of it back in the day because it was automatically limited. Yeah, abstaining is just a healthy practice in a lot of directions. I think it just provides that time that you need to analyze from the outside your behaviors.

And I think this is definitely a part of that. Now, what are your thoughts on actually just television? Because I feel sometimes like, I mean, we've all done this before. You've probably benged four or five episodes of something. You got really into it, you didn't have anything going on that day. And you benged watch five episodes. I mean, can you guys relate to what you feel like

after you do that? Yeah, garbage. Yeah, I feel terrible. And I think it's very obvious to me how I feel because I don't do that very often. It's once in a while that happens. And it's always like, oh my God, I'm gonna take a trip. Oh, I gotta get out, get out the house,

or let's go to the gym, I feel like I have to do that afterwards because I feel so lethargic. Now I know this young generation coming up, it's so widely accepted to do that. There's media everywhere. Right, and it's incredible. Netflix's algorithm is designed that way

to just keep feeding you more and more that you're more, I mean, they even have a section called Benjeworthy. So it's, we've encouraged this Benjing on television. And I wonder if that even plays a role. So forget just, you're just watching porn, but just being staring at a screen for hours, after hours, after hours, day, after day, after day, I would think could have effect. Just not being present, you know, being distracted by things all the time, is actually a stress on the motto and you're right, you can feel it inherently. Like if you're listening right now and you've sat down

and watched shows all day long, and then it's over, you know, you feel it, you feel physically like it was a stress on you. You were stimulated visually, you're watching something, but you're not moving, you're not being present, it just doesn't feel good. So I would think so. And the opposite is true, right?

So I always feel better about sitting down and watching television if I ate well and exercised that day. A lot of times I go on a weekend, if there's something that Katrina and I know that there's a movie we want to watch, or we know we're gonna do that that day or night at some point, we'll always go to the gym first

because I always feel better about lying around doing nothing after I've gotten activity in. And so I don't know if that's like, there's literally something going on chemically inside of me or just subconsciously, I feel better about exercising. But actually it's one of my favorite times to watch something would be after a hard workout.

Yeah, it's just chill and the thing out. So he earned it. Yeah, absolutely. No, that's a very, very good point. So there you go. There's your five ways that we've observed both, not just with ourselves, but with clients. And most of them, if not all of them,

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