The Dangers of Masturbating Too Much w/ Dr.

Trish Leigh
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The dangers of masturbating too much. I'm Dr. Trish Leigh. In this video, let's talk about can
you masturbate too much? Definitely.

Yes, indeed. And then let's break it down. What are the dangers? Okay, so first and
foremost, I want you to know that if you're masturbating consistently and frequently,
there's a reason.

Healthy men, healthy women do not feel the need to masturbate every day or multiple
times a day. Can masturbation be healthy in a healthy sex life and lifestyle? Yes, but not with
the frequency and consistency of two to seven times a week. If you are masturbating that
frequently, it is serving a self-soothing need.

We know this. So what we know from compulsive hypersexuality behavior disorder, which is
a real disorder in the international classification of diseases, that your need to go back for
sexual behavior is because your brain is pulling you back for mood regulation, making you
feel okay. And it has to do with the dopamine that is released in your brain when you
masturbate.

So it becomes a masturbation dependency. So in every single video, I give a brain tip

strategy to use at the end. And I'm going to share one, a couple with you in this one.

But right now, I want you to think about this. If you're here watching this video, it's because
you likely know that you masturbate a lot. And you want to know if that a lot is too much.

So if it's a lot, it's serving a need that's more than just sexual. That's what I want you to
know. And if you want to know for sure, stop masturbating.

Stop masturbating for a week or two and see what happens in your brain. You will feel it. I
know it from the thousands of people that I work with that you will feel that pull in your
brain, the compulsion, the compulsive need to go back.

Now, another danger of masturbation is that masturbation doesn't happen alone. A healthy
masturbation habit is when you stay in touch with the feelings in your body like a massage.
So if you get a healthy massage, you're feeling your muscles relax.

You're feeling the tension in your body go away, but you're not anchoring into fantasy or
into euphoric recall of porn, or you're not consuming pornography at the same time. So a
healthy masturbation habit is one that is rooted in the feelings in your body. So another
danger is that you're masturbating to fantasy or to pornography.

And we know from the science that if you are consuming pornography and that fantasy that
goes along with it, in fact, it is decreasing activity in your frontal lobe, and it is frying out the
reward center in the middle of your brain, which that causes a whole host of problems. And
I'm going to label them for you here just quickly. The quick and dirty on the majority of them
here is that when your frontal lobe doesn't work well, your thinking, your cognition
decreases.

So your ability to think, remember, focus, feel motivated, go to work, your ability to
remember things, your ability to plan something and follow through on it is decreased. At
the same time, social anxiety goes through the roof. Anxiety in and of itself, health anxiety
increases because your brain is dysregulated neurologically, meaning that it's using too
much fast speed and too much slow speed, which is what pushes you back for more
masturbation.

So it will it will make you feel more depressed. It will make you feel general malaise or just
not feeling well. It will give you an increase in emotional and mental health issues.

We know this. The science shows this. It will also give you physical issues like erectile
dysfunction.

That happens because the reward center in your brain has become desensitized. So you
need more mental and physical stimulation to become aroused. That's why you have to go
back for more consistent and frequent masturbation.

It's a dependency, a compulsion. It is not good for you. So another danger is it will make you
go out of your way to masturbate instead of having sexual relations with your partner.

If you have one or instead of trying to go into the world and find a partner, you become
complacent and content with self-soothing through masturbation. Now, I've heard from too
many people, thousands and thousands of people that what about my prostate? You know,
I'm trying to ward off prostate cancer. There is a hijacker in your brain.

That's what hypersexuality compulsion is. It's your brain telling you we need to masturbate
again to feel OK. That hijacker will trick you.

He lies to you. He tells you that you're masturbating to ward off prostate cancer. I'm here to
tell you that the science on masturbating for prostate cancer is not conclusive.

There's studies that show that masturbating too much is unhealthy for your prostate.
There's studies that show there's no conclusions. If you go to your urologist, many times
they don't know about compulsive hypersexuality behavior disorder.

They don't ask you, do you masturbate a lot? They don't ask you, do you consume
pornography? So leading to your brain tip, if you have any problems or you have a fear of
prostate cancer, visit your urologist. But if you do, make sure you tell him or her that you
watch pornography and that you masturbate a lot because it changes the formula.
Urologists are trained to tell people that if they're having prostate problems, masturbation
is good for you.

But if you masturbate a lot, masturbation is not good for you. The brain, the harms to the
brain offset the risk of prostate cancer, which is incredibly low for young men. If you go to
Cancer.org, you will read there with your own eyes, very rare in men under 60.
So masturbating a lot doesn't have to do with prostate cancer. Don't allow yourself to be
tricked because every time you allow yourself to be tricked, you're damaging your brain.
Okay, if you decide that you're masturbating too much and this is not a healthy habit and
you're looking for help on this journey, reach out to me.

I have programs that can help, drtrishlee.com. And until next time, control your brain or it'll
control you.
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