Erections are to a male, how regular menstrual periods are to a female. How can a male preserve his erectile function?
- The penis is a vascular organ first, sexual organ second. Protect ur blood vessels- protect erections.
- Diabetes produces accelerated atherosclerosis( faster clogging of penile blood vessels). Maintain normal/ near normal blood sugar- Preserve ur erections.
-Nicotine shrinks penile arteries 4-6 yrs before the heart complains. Quit smoking. ED is a harbinger of Heart Attack.
- Do strength training. Improves Testosterone. Erections follow normal Testosterone levels.
- Reduce belly fat. Waistline and erectile function move in opposite directions.
- Sleep 7–8 hours regularly, without interruption. Poor sleep raises ED risk dramatically.
- 30 minutes of brisk walking/ day lowers ED risk by ~40%. Movement = nitric oxide.
- Stress kills erections. Cortisol shuts down testosterone and blood flow to the Penis.
- Avoid Alcohol.
- Maintain Hydration throughout the day.
- Avoid sitting long hours at a stretch. Sitting compresses pelvic blood flow and nerves. Move 10 min every hour. Sitting is the new smoking.
-Depression and anxiety are major erection killers. Get professional help, when necessary.
- Long Distance Cycling? Use a proper saddle and take breaks. Often. Perineal pressure can affect nerves to Penis.
- Many BP, antidepressant, and hair-loss drugs affect erections. Discuss them with ur Dr frankly.
A happy human in the bedroom is relaxed & most productive at the workplace. Cheers to Morning Wood.
I watched a guy on the bus today. 6:45 AM in the morning while jogging, His eyes looked heavy, like he was carrying the weight of an entire lineage on his shoulders. But immediately he sat down, he brought out his phone and started scrolling TikTok.
As a Biomedical Engineer, I wanted to snatch that phone from his hand.
See, let me tell you the bitter truth nobody wants to hear.
Most of you are not lazy or "unlucky." You are chemically sabotaging your own destiny before you even brush your teeth.
The first 60 minutes of your day is a war zone. Your brain is begging for direction. It runs on dopamine, that’s the fuel for your motivation. But what do you do?
You wake up. Your eyes haven't even adjusted to the darkness of your room, and gbam, you pick up your phone.
You check WhatsApp to see who ignored you. You check X to see who is fighting. You check Instagram to see your mates buying cars you can't afford yet.
You think you are just "waking up," but scientifically? You are flooding your brain with cheap, unearned dopamine. You are frying your reward system. By 8 AM, your brain is already tired. It has consumed "content" but produced nothing.
And let me speak to the men for a second.
I write about men a lot because I see what you go through. The pressure is much. You wake up and the first thought is Rent, School fees, the woman you want to impress.
It is terrifying.
So, you grab your phone to escape. The phone is your pacifier. It numbs the panic of the morning. But that comfort is a lie.
When you start your day with cheap dopamine, actual work feels like torture. You have programmed your neurochemistry to be a consumer, not a king.
You are training your brain to be weak in a world that eats weak men for breakfast.
Here is the hard truth (and you can drag me if you like):
Your morning mood doesn’t determine how your day goes. It determines your capacity to suffer for your success.
If you can’t survive the first hour of the day without a screen, how do you want to survive the economy?
Protect your first hour.
Don't touch that phone.
Stare at the ceiling. Pray. Do pushups. Go for a morning jug or walk.
Let your brain starve for a bit so it learns to hunt for the hard things.
Stop feeding your destiny to the algorithm.
From the perspective of a caveman or even farmer from few hundred years back - most of our jobs (us city dwellers) are like UBI (universal basic income).
You cannot convince a 15th century person that what a typical MBA grad does is a legit profession, let along one of the highest paid ones.
In light of what is happening with AI - I have had an lightbulb moment - that Graeber’s “bullshit jobs” are actually a form of UBI. We need bullshit jobs to sustain the economy and the society.
Just growing food, packaging it and feeding the 8B people of earth needs just 1-2% of the population to do it. What will the rest 98% do?
Initial days of COVID lockdown showed us how the economy needs to constantly “move”. It collapses if stationery. If for even few weeks, people stop spending money, entire economy stalls, GDP free falls, everyone’s income becomes zero because everyone’s income after all comes from someone else spending money.
So when people say that “if AGI automated everything then we need UBI” I guess they are not realising that before AI there has been electricity, computers, Internet, industrial manufacturing and lots of other paradigm shifts that have already done a wave of “automate everything”, and the human race just went ahead and invented yet another hundred million bullshit jobs to keep the displaced population busy with something to keep the economy moving. And we will do exactly the same after AGI as well.