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The video addresses a growing issue where young men are developing erectile dysfunction not due to age or traditional health markers, but because their bodies have adapted to an unnatural level of stimulation derived from pornography and masturbation. The speaker explains that just as the body adapts to eating spicy food or running marathons, prolonged exposure to high-intensity visual stimuli trains the penis to require extreme pressure to achieve and maintain an erection. This adaptation creates a physiological mismatch because natural sexual acts, such as vaginal intercourse, exert significantly less pressure than what is needed to climax after years of heavy porn consumption. Consequently, many men find they cannot finish during partnered sex unless they use their hand or engage in anal sex, which provide the necessary intensity to trigger an orgasm.
To reverse this condition, the protocol emphasizes that testosterone levels are often misunderstood as the primary culprit; in reality, only about 5% of erectile dysfunction cases are linked to low testosterone, while the vast majority stem from vascular health and desensitization. The speaker argues that the penis is primarily a vascular organ rather than an endocrine one, meaning its function depends heavily on cardiovascular fitness and nitric oxide production found in leafy greens and beetroots. Therefore, improving heart health through exercise, specifically leg day to stimulate muscle growth and testosterone production, is crucial for maintaining blood flow to the corpus cavernosum. The regimen also suggests a period of abstinence from ejaculation for about two weeks to allow the body's nocturnal emissions to recalibrate sensitivity levels, similar to how muscles begin to lose mass after ten days without training.
Once the physical retraining begins, the focus shifts to modifying sexual mechanics and mental habits to ensure long-term success. Men are advised to practice a "loose grip" technique during masturbation, using ample lubrication to mimic the lower pressure of natural intercourse rather than the tightness of a death grip. If this is difficult to achieve alone, the speaker humorously suggests using a buddy system with a friend to monitor grip pressure and ensure it remains loose. Furthermore, the mental aspect is critical, as anxiety and performance pressure can inhibit blood flow; the goal is to remain relaxed so that thoughts naturally lead to arousal without the interference of fear. By combining cardiovascular improvement, a period of abstinence, gentle manual stimulation, and a calm mindset, men can retrain their genitals to respond appropriately to normal sexual encounters and overcome premature ejaculation or inability to maintain an erection.
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I've heard you talk about the need for
young men to retrain their penis.
>> Yes.
>> What's going on there?
>> So, here's the basic problem.
I'm a teenage boy and I discover
pornography and I have an erection and
at some point I start masturbating.
And then this is becoming a problem now
because my access to pornography is at
an all-time high.
My access to a healthy sexual
relationship is an all-time low.
So
whereas you know
so so now what's happening is for maybe
15 years I'm using a certain kind of
stimulation for my penis and just to
give you uh okay so I'm using a certain
kind of stimulation for my penis and
then the body gets used to that right so
in the same way that like if I eat spicy
foods starting when I'm 13 like I can
handle spicy food when I'm 15 so the
body gets used to caffeine. It gets the
whole point of the body is that it
adapts to whatever you give it.
>> So, we are literally we're training our
body to tolerate spicy food. We're
training our body to run a marathon.
We're training our genitals and and our
our penis to ejaculate in c certain
circumstances.
>> So, we see a a shockingly high level of
erectile dysfunction.
>> I'd learned from you 40% of men are
dealing with erectile dysfunction.
>> Yeah. So, I think it's 30% of people
under the age of 30, which erectile
dysfunction, maybe I said 40%, I don't
remember the exact statistic, but
erectile dysfunction used to be an old
man's disease. It's not anymore. And
what a lot of people don't realize, do
you know what erectile dysfunction is?
>> No.
>> Okay. So, this obviously, [laughter]
>> okay.
[laughter]
>> Okay. So,
>> too easy.
>> Yeah, that's that's a good one. So
erectile dysfunction is defined as the
inability to maintain an erection
through the completion of the sexual
act.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. So the interesting thing about the
young men, 30% of people under the age
of 30 who have erectile dysfunction,
it's not that they can't get hard, it's
that they can't stay hard enough to
finish if they're having intercourse,
let's say.
>> Okay. And there's a really simple reason
for that.
The
I was going to ask a couple questions,
but I doubt you have the answer. So the
the the PSI the the pounds per square
inch of your hand okay the amount of
force that you can exert with your fist
>> Mhm.
>> is about 130. Now there's there's some
problems with that because you're
actually you measure uh hand grip
strength not by force but by Newtons but
but sorry not by PSI but by Newtons but
there's a rough conversion. Okay there's
about 130. The PSI of the vagina is like
30 m. So if you just if you just in this
you may not know but you know the vagina
exerts a certain amount of pressure
>> and tightness and then the hand exerts a
different level of tightness and they're
not even in the same vein. So basically
what happens with a lot of dudes who
spend 15 years of their life watching
pornography and masturbating, it's not
just about gender stuff or the the
jiggliness or the angles of porn.
There's all that stuff too. There's a
very simple physiologic thing where this
is what you need to finish. You need a
very high level of stuff. And I mean, I
I've worked with men in their 60s
>> who will um not be able to climax
through oral sex or vaginal intercourse.
And so when they have when they engage
in in sexual intercourse, either they
have to finish using their hand or they
have to engage in anal sex. Those are
the the two things that work. Um and and
so this it's just physiology. It's just
what you've you've trained your penis to
respond to.
>> What's the pounds per square inch of an
[ __ ]
>> Um I don't know, but I I
>> this is important research.
>> I I I imagine it's probably north of
100.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah.
>> Especially if you
>> Yeah.
>> You know.
>> Yeah.
>> So I mean it's got to be high. I mean
it's it's certainly way higher than I
mean the the there's a anyway a couple
sphincters in there and but they're
they're quite strong
>> but but so so this is what's going on.
So, so men have basically and there's
all kinds of other issues like um
cardiovascular issues, sedentary
lifestyle.
Good good question here because I think
when people hear erectile dysfunction in
men, what they probably go to is like an
uninformed person or even a
well-informed person, they go um well
that is low testosterone,
that is uh obesity,
that is
uh mental stimulus desensitization due
to extreme
uh fisherian runaway acts in porn uh and
seeing unrealistic or tail end
representations of women in porn. Uh
that is due to psychological
nervousness.
Far fewer will go to how much nitric
oxide are you consuming from your
[ __ ] leafy greens and your beetroots?
What's the level of cardiac health that
you've got? Um, what's the death grip
comparison between your right hand and a
vagina of the culprits causing erectile
dysfunction among men, young men?
>> How how would you sort of partition off
that pie?
>> So, so this is something that
I've been dragged kicking and screaming
into becoming an expert in.
>> So, let's start with testosterone
because specialist subject. Let's
[ __ ] go. This is this is the biggest
scam that is being perpetrated against
men.
>> Okay.
>> So around the year 2000 the average
testosterone for a man was about 612 to
690 nanogs per deciliter. Okay.
So 20 years later the average
testosterone for a man has dropped to
about 400. Okay.
>> That's significant in a short space of
time. It is significant in a short space
of time and it is well within the
acceptable limits. Right? So it it
there. So so has testosterone dropped?
Yes. Has it dropped by a third? Yes.
Does this cause physiologic problems?
Almost certainly not.
Second thing. So what's the testosterone
drop due to? There is an effect from
obesity, but it is even if you factor
out obesity, there's still a
testosterone drop.
Next thing,
>> I have a theory on that. Can you hear my
theory? Sure. Do you want to keep going?
Sure.
>> Okay. So, this is my theory.
>> Men's testosterone is mediated by their
environment. If we had a bunch of
weapons around here now, our
testosterone would be higher. If we
started picking them up and waving them
around, our testosterone would be high.
Not much, but like a little bit. Another
thing that mediates male testosterone is
the fertility of the women that they're
near. If you're spending a lot of time
around women who are giving off the
cues, largely pherommones, but also
visual cues of being fertile, that will
increase testosterone. Not by an
insignificant amount. Um, if you were a
man that somehow was stranded on a
desert island, some hunter gatherer man
stranded on a desert island with a bunch
of children, a bunch of grandmothers,
your testosterone would be less.
>> Okay.
>> Uh, I think, and I've spoken to Dr. Sha
Swan about this, etc., etc. Um, one of
the X- factors, my like tinfoil hat X
factor thing is the artificial
suppression of fertility by women
increasing their use of hormonal birth
control is causing and the solitude of
men
spending less time around women is a
contributor that hasn't been fully
factored in to the decrease in
testosterone.
>> That's a fascinating especially the
birth control. And
>> don't [ __ ] test me, dude, on this
tinfoil hat stuff. That's what I'm
about. Yes, [laughter] Dr. [ __ ] So, I
know we have a lot of important things
that matter to people to talk about, but
one day we have to put our tinfoil hats
on and and just go off the rails.
>> I have a I have a hat that says
>> make autism great again.
>> Yes.
>> Okay, interesting.
>> Cool.
>> Um,
>> so first one was testosterone scam
doesn't really seem to is there a level
question. Is there a level of
testosterone that it gets below where
erectile function begins to be impacted?
>> Yes, that's where I'm going next. So 5%
of erectile dysfunction is due to
testosterone deficiency. Specifically we
call that hypogonatism. So so basically
95% of erectile dysfunction is not due
to testosterone.
>> Don't worry about your testosterone.
>> Okay.
>> Um and I I think that the things that
you said are certainly factors for
lowering testosterone. I think there's
also really other simple little things
like sedentary lifestyle. We become more
sedentary. I think the largest uh don't
skip lag day. Right. Right. So, one of
the the greatest endogenous
signals that stimulate testosterone
production is like stress in your
quadriceps muscles.
>> Big muscles.
>> Yeah. So, the bigger your muscles and
quads are about about as big as they
get.
>> Yep.
>> So, don't skip leg day. Huge. The other
thing that you touched on which I think
a lot of people for forget the penis is
not like a endocrine organ. It's a
vascular organ. Right. So, testosterone
is a hormone. It travels in very small
quantities all throughout your body and
does all kinds of things everywhere in
your body. The penis is first and
foremost a vas vascular organ. It's
basically a a tube that fills up with
blood. So the number one thing that
improves actually I don't know if this
is true but if
>> one of the things
>> Yeah. So one of the things that is very
very very important for penile
retraining and penis health is
cardiovascular health. The stronger your
heart is the stronger your
cardiovascular system is the the
healthier your penis will be. the longer
you will be able to maintain an
erection. Even the size of your erection
depends on you know how much blood goes
into the corpus cabinosum and the corpus
spongiosum which are anatomical parts.
There's also valves that become really
important and this is where you
mentioned nitrous oxide. So if we look
at selenaphil
which is Viagra it's a it's a nitrous
oxide it increases the levels of nitrous
oxide basically it's a phosphodiestraase
5 inhibitor so it prevents the breakdown
of nitrous oxide and nitrous oxide is
what causes the penis to swell so
cardiovascular health is huge and then
there are so if we're talking about this
penile retraining regimen
um there are a couple things that you
have to do the first is
It takes about 10 days to two weeks for
things in your body to start shifting.
Okay. So, first thing is if we look at
about 50% of men will have a nocturnal
emission after 7 days without any
ejaculation.
>> 50%.
>> Yeah.
>> No way.
>> I think it's ballpark 50%. I'm not 100%
sure on
>> I love the term nocturnal emission as
well. It's my [ __ ] favorite. So what
that means is if you don't have
intercourse and you don't tug one out,
the body starts to recalibrate and will
say 50% of men is like okay like we got
to get rid of some of this stuff. So
that'll happen.
>> So once you hit 2 weeks then you know
the the likelihood of nocturnal emission
goes up. And and this twoe number is
like ma magical in the body. So even if
you look at the hypertrophy of muscles,
so if you if you stop working out, if
you don't lift weights, after about 10
days is when you really start to see a
loss of the the mass of your muscles. So
this this twoe period is really
important. So I think if you're like
retraining your penis, you got to do it.
You got to you got to give yourself two
weeks. Okay?
So
um don't skip penis day. So penis day is
leg day. So you want to work out your
legs. You want to improve your
cardiovascular health. The more that you
work out, like the healthier your penis
will become.
>> Second thing is you you need to abstain.
I think it's probably a good idea to
abstain from if you really want to
retrain your penis. And usually the the
situation in which this becomes acutely
important is if you start a sexual
relationship. We'll get to the anxiety
and stuff at the end because that's a
whole conversation. But so when when
you're you know if you're going to get
laid for like 10 days like don't tug one
out.
>> We'll get to some other conspiracy tin
foil hat stuff about you know premature
ejaculation and stuff like that. But um
so so give yourself about two weeks and
then and then you know as dudes know
like if you haven't tugged one out
you're going to nut fast which is like
the goal. Okay. So that's what's we we
don't want to avoid nutting fast. We'll
>> get to that in a second.
>> Um but it's okay to not fast. it's
actually like a good thing to do. And
then if your penis is if you're able to
complete a sexual act, um then you know
you're on the right path because the
problem with erectile dysfunction is you
can't maintain an erection through the
completion of the sexual act.
So next thing that we want to do is
loose grip and lots of lube. So we want
to mimic the 30 PSI.
>> Okay. So, this is something that is
very, very difficult and frustrating for
dudes to do, which is why I recommend
the buddy system, right? So, if you have
trouble doing doing a loose grip, you
can ask a friend of yours to use some
lube and and make sure that the grip
stays loose until [laughter]
>> such a left turn. Such a left turn. Hey,
dude, sit in sit in a cuck chair in the
corner and warn me if I get above 30
PSI.
>> Yeah. So, so so it's it's hard, right?
So it's it's I mean it's not which
[laughter] is the issue. Yeah.
>> All right. So penis jokes galore. Let's
go.
>> Right.
>> So um but yeah. So so you have to loosen
your group grip. Use lots of lube. Um
that'll that'll do pretty well.
>> Then there's the pornography stuff where
I think the the more you if you're
waiting a week, right? And then you are
engaging in masturbation
best if you don't use porn and let your
thoughts do the work for you. Mhm.
>> And that opens up a whole other really
interesting thing which is like
addressing premature ejaculation or
inability to ejaculate is your mind is
like an incredibly important organ to
control your sex.
>> Point and shoot.
>> I don't understand.
>> Oh, point and shoot's the uh
parasympathetic sympathetic seesaw.
That's the way that they get taught at
med school in the UK.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So point and shoot. We get
taught the same thing.
>> Oh. So like so when I have patients who
struggle with premature ejaculation, one
of the things that I'll tell them to do
is like think nonsexual thoughts. So
math problems is really well like do
like factors like prime factor analysis,
things like that.
>> Okay? And
>> and because if you if you think about
like if you're a dude who's had, you
know, good sex before, you know, like
getting into it is like a big part of
it. So, so even when I talk to um you
know partners or people who are engaged
who want to do certain kinds of sexual
exploration with things like anal
intercourse and stuff like that the
mentality becomes really important for
sex like so what what is going on in
your head right so you said point and
shoot which means parasympathetic and
then sympathetic parasympathetic is
relaxation so this is why for if if
you're trying to engage in in sex you're
trying to engage in the All
right. So, especially I mean this is
really true for women but is also true
for men especially if they have anxiety
induced issues. You want to be really
really really relaxed, right? Um and so
if you're relaxed, blood flow increases
to your genital organs and then you
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