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Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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I do educate myself. I read many different viewpoints, including for example parents whose own kids were diagnosed with ADHD and did more research. As one example: https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Hunter-Farmers-Thom-Hartmann/dp/... First of all, I appreciate your sharing of personal anecdotal experience (I mean that sincerely), and I am open to more infomation. But you should be also willing to educate yourself on what y…

I got diagnosed in middle age after a very long assessment that cost me a lot of money, because I wanted accuracy. If it was depression, neglect or trauma I would've been fine with that assessment too. I had no idea going in that I was anything close to ADHD, just extremely frustrated at my career & life stagnation. If I known years ago I'd would've been about 7 or 8 years ahead in my career. Yes ADHD is a different…

Thank you for that video. A few things about it:

1) He shows how an actual physiological cause of some cases of severe ADHD have persistent behavioral implications, such as a split between the knowledge and executive parts of the brain illustrated (crudely) in his diagram.

2) Around 2:211 "now you might be able to train up some of these executive functions, we don't know that yet." Indeed, even for many actually problematic cases, we don't know yet how far non-medical interventions can go.

3) My main question is this: What is the proportion of people diagnosed with ADHD that actually have such a pronounced physiological divergence? My point is that it is small, and the DSM-5 criteria are applied by simply choosing M of N symptoms to be present. The same is true for autism spectrum, and for gender dysphoria, and all have been on a tear in terms of diagnoses, in countries around the world where governments and schools specifically instituted related top-down policies about it:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7011a1.htm to quote the Introduction: ASD prevalence estimates have increased from 6.7 (one in 150) per 1,000 children aged 8 years at ADDM Network sites in surveillance years 2000 and 2002 to 18.5 (one in 54) in surveillance year 2016 (3–10). Over time, the proportion of children with ASD who also have intellectual disability has decreased from approximately one half in 2000 and 2002 to one third in 2016 (3,4,10).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95421-9 (Sweden) to quote the abstract: The incidence of GD, defined as ≥ 4 diagnoses increased significantly during the study period and mostly in the age categories 10–17 and 18–30 years, even after adjusting for register coverage. We concluded that the validity of a single ICD code denoting clinical GD in the Swedish NPR can be questioned.

and so on.

4) Even in cases of e.g. gender dysphoria, we simply don't know enough about how many cases are due to social media and peer groups, and there are many activists who are looking to silence inconvenient studies such as the 2018 study of "Rapid-Onset-Gender-Dysphoria" for teens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c...

Humans are social animals. If we were as diligent in looking at the social and dietary causes for children, as we are for adults, we would probably find a lot better solutions than just medicating people. For example:

1) Giving up sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyFIvCvh8U

2) Documentaries on how profit-seeking industries create attention disorders an addictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma

3) Diabetes and coronavirus: https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-clinica-e-investigacion-a...

4) Loneliness is a significant variable affecting depression https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29792097/

As for conspiracies, look, how crazy do you want to get? What if you knew that the FDA tried for 40 years to bury certain effective treatments that cure cancer. Even though tons of people were getting cured, they tried harder than they ever have to shut it down for years. It sounds like some hyperbolic nonsense, but tell me after you look this video (flip through it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmxUsAI29fw ... it has all the studies, texts results from medical journals, double-blind studies, TV footage of multiple congressional inquiries, repeated admissions from the CDC directors themselves on video, etc.

Once you start looking for this stuff, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that our society isn't exactly set up for anything other than "medication".

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So some behaviour is bad and social media is bad and you join a social media forum with one million... ahem, members to talk about it. It doesn't seem like a good plan. Edit, to clarify: traditional suppport groups must be helpful for serious addiction, but an online forum with a lot of traffic? It seems crazy. If you have a problem with doing something pasively and anonymously online, go outside and chat with people…

Another way to look at it: 1,000,000 people felt their relationship with porn and masturbation wasn't healthy and needed help weening off of it Who's telling the truth? Medical science (ejaculate more to keep your prostate healthier) or the community online telling you "stop masturbating" I have no clue

ejaculate more to keep your prostate healthier

Nice to have, but that's not why you do it. Also it doesn't imply to be alone.

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still is a major indicator of the emotional and physical problems porn is causing to many men and women. It's an epidemic. What are the physical problems one can get through watching porn? If this study is accurate, it seems batting off more often may be a good thing ?

Erectile dysfunction for one, which was once an aging related problem, now affects people in their 20s.

Is that physiological though? Maybe psychological?

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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 bi…

Your expectations are wrong. All data support married couples having the most satisfying sexual relationships.

Obviously having a partner is more satisfying than self-stimulation. This conversation is just about frequency

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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…

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.

> Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements.

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. (attributed to Albert Einstein)

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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…

What are your current diet assumptions? From what I heard, the best way to stay healthy is to follow mediterranean and DASH diets.

Basically all Mediterranean dishes are cooked on the olive oil, for which you can find many sources claiming that it is extraordinarily healthy.

However, I am starting to be wary of this claim because olive oil has a _lot_ of saturated fats when compared to other food, roughly around 15-16g per 100g.

To put this figure into the context: 20% cooking cream, which is usually considered unhealthy because of its high saturated fats ratio, has about the same amount of saturated fats as olive oil, 14-15g per 100g. Saturated fats in butter are exceptionally high, 51g per 100g.

What was surprising to me is that even the sunflower oil, an oil which is frowned upon because it's refined, has _less_ of the saturated fats than olive oil, roughly around 13g per 100g.

All the rest of the food which we normally consume is in the region of 1-5g per 100g, including the eggs which have 1g of saturated fats per 100g.

By knowing for the fact that saturated fats are unhealthy, these stats seem to suggest that olive oil is not as healthy as it is generally considered.

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What are your current diet assumptions? From what I heard, the best way to stay healthy is to follow mediterranean and DASH diets.

Basically all Mediterranean dishes are cooked on the olive oil, for which you can find many sources claiming that it is extraordinarily healthy. However, I am starting to be wary of this claim because olive oil has a _lot_ of saturated fats when compared to other food, roughly around 15-16g per 100g. To put this figure into the context: 20% cooking cream, which is usually considered unhealthy because of its high satu…

> By knowing for the fact that saturated fats are unhealthy

This is simply not true, much less a "fact". This myth most probably comes from the good old American Heart Association who base their opinion of a study way back in the 1960s which was since proven to have been of extremely low quality. There is a ton of info about this online (including scientific studies, not just blog posts), pro and contra, you can read them yourself and then decide who you believe.

And butter and olive oil are one of the most healthy foods you can consume in my opinion <= there you have another point of view on the internet :)

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Basically all Mediterranean dishes are cooked on the olive oil, for which you can find many sources claiming that it is extraordinarily healthy. However, I am starting to be wary of this claim because olive oil has a _lot_ of saturated fats when compared to other food, roughly around 15-16g per 100g. To put this figure into the context: 20% cooking cream, which is usually considered unhealthy because of its high satu…

> By knowing for the fact that saturated fats are unhealthy This is simply not true, much less a "fact". This myth most probably comes from the good old American Heart Association who base their opinion of a study way back in the 1960s which was since proven to have been of extremely low quality. There is a ton of info about this online (including scientific studies, not just blog posts), pro and contra, you can read…

Right, as if the American Heart Association was the only organization in world to examine the effects of saturated fats to our health, and as if the last study on that topic has been done half a century ago.

Thanks for your advice but unless you're willing to share that "ton of info" to support your rather absurd claim, I'll stick to my common sense.

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Erectile dysfunction for one, which was once an aging related problem, now affects people in their 20s.

Is that physiological though? Maybe psychological?

Is there a practical difference?
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