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Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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It is truly tiring to see all these "linked" articles. It might be interesting but without some more research it is useless and just messes up with 99.9% of population who will read it and wrongly assume sexual activity prevents cancer. I am currently on a big spree trying to fix my diet and sift true information from all those wrong inferences. Turns out, almost everything I have been told and red is a lie based on…

Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool? I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal. > Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing... There is more nuance involved. W…

> Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool?

That's the problem, we were taught this in highschool:

https://www.disabled-world.com/pics/1/old-food-pyramid.jpg

Eat low amounts of natural fat, eat large amount of grain and cereal to be healthy. It was taught to us in a blanket one size fits all methodology

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is truly tiring to see all these "linked" articles. It might be interesting but without some more research it is useless and just messes up with 99.9% of population who will read it and wrongly assume sexual activity prevents cancer. I am currently on a big spree trying to fix my diet and sift true information from all those wrong inferences. Turns out, almost everything I have been told and red is a lie based on…

Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool? I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal. > Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing... There is more nuance involved. W…

> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do.

Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own?

How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Most of that community appears to be based on woo and bad analysis of science/biology, so I imagine they'd likely dismiss this study out of hand regardless. But also, we shouldn't forget this: > The studies from the United States and Australia do little to answer these critical questions — but they do open a new avenue for research This isn't a fully understood area of research yet.

Nofap is just secular Puritanism with its canon replaced with biotruths, poor interpretations of evolutionary biology and the ramblings of people driven insane by celibacy.

"I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."

(1:30) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0he-LZNzVg0

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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So YouPorn is a medical device now. Seriously: those are not the sole studies showing those evidences. There are older with the same results. Religion and movements that prevent masturbation are disturbing from the point of view of the sexual development of teenagers.

Wouldn’t be the first time a self-pleasuring tool was widely regarded as a wondrous medical device … there was one that treated a catch—all disease called “hysteria” in the other half of the human population: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-vibrator/ Let’s not forget the kids before puberty. Today’s “hysteria” is alive and well — it’s called ADHD and it involves overdiagnosing rambunctiousness and pres…

Spoken like someone who doesn't know anyone who has ADHD, e.g., someone who has no idea what they're talking about. Also, your little rant is completely off topic.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Also seems possible that married men, who are at a lower risk for almost every negative health outcome there is, are also at a lower risk for prostate cancer due to what is outlined in the paper. Married men seem more likely to have frequent (ahem) both due to literally living with their partner, as well as having a lower likelihood of depression, higher testosterone (the higher test generally would lead to the marri…

I would actually expect most married men to have less frequent ejaculations. I'm not married myself, but my impression is that most couples don't keep up a daily sexual routine for several decades, and finding time and space to self-stimulate is awkward if your live-in partner is not in the mood.

One thing I actually prefer (ironically) about the single life is that the schedule of your sexual release, which has a big influence on mood, energy, and sleep, is totally under your control.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

#108
post #25

So many opportunities for correlation not causation. One obvious correlation could be testosterone: higher testosterone leading to less prostate cancer. Of course higher testosterone has multiple causes. I knew a girlfriend of a guy taking roids, both in their twenties: she said he was insatiable in her opinion (I think she limited access to three times a day, because he just wanted more).

It is truly tiring to see all these "linked" articles. It might be interesting but without some more research it is useless and just messes up with 99.9% of population who will read it and wrongly assume sexual activity prevents cancer. I am currently on a big spree trying to fix my diet and sift true information from all those wrong inferences. Turns out, almost everything I have been told and red is a lie based on…

Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Make sure to contrast and check whatever you do with regular blood tests that tell you whether you're doing the right thing or needs adjustments because if you continue down that path you're going to fuck yourself up.
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