Could you please post these studies? I’ve seriously never heard of excessive masturbation or porn causing ED outside of advocates of NoFap making that claim.
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Something akin to an addiction–there may be some kind of dopamine high that the person needs more and more and so he watches porn more and more and/or masturbates more and more. This hypothesis has been online and in the news for a while now. Dopamine again is only one part of our brain–an organ that we dont know a lot about yet.
This website should have the link to the study https://www.forhims.com/blog/porn-induced-erectile-dysfunction.
According to the website “A more recent study involving 350 people with sexual compulsions, many of whom were compulsive pornography users, revealed a 26.7% correlation with sexual dysfunction. This study was meant to explore an increase in sexual addiction, but the fact remains that there is a positive correlation between porn usage and sexual dysfunction.”
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Lol that’s hims they are the people prescribing finasteride smh bullshit study!
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what? just because they sell finasteride it d
oesnt invalidate the study. smh
That’s just a blog post by a notoriously unethical online pharmacy, not a study. The links to the studies cited in the blog post are dead ends.
HIMS are scum IMO. They are making it look like their hogwash is backed by science by posting nonsense links to scientific journals.
Check it out: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Partner with Hims; Company Pushes Sertraline, Saw Palmetto and Finasteride on Social Media
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Him’s is nearly making it seem like you can get these drugs from a vending machine. I am really not a fan, esp for finasteride. Low dose Viagra/Cialis? Sure, have at it.
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Yep and then after guys get ED and PFS from finasteride from hims, they can go back to hims to get generic viagra! UNCONSCIONABLE.
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One stop shopping
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I took two or three weeks of HCG between February and March, and then I used a week of low doses of Tribulus MediHerb. I was already seeing a gradual and VERY slow improvement, even before HCG. Now I have thicker skin on my penis (as it was before), although other sexual problems persist. I don’t know if I am improving over time or it was the OP protocol (HCG + Tribulus MediHerb). I am also doing pelvic exercises. The fact is, I don’t know if I still use Tribulus Mediherb or try to believe the theory of time and stop using any chemical shit.
Where can I buy this? Amazon is out of stock.
Fuck, even the brand Mediherb that OP recommends can vary in deleterious phytosterol content from batch to batch. First two bottles for me, everything was perfect. Was feeling hopeful. Tried to do another cycle with a third bottle and it set me back to square one. Insomnia back to where it was almost two years ago, muscle stiffness all over my body.
Dear all.
I have made quite substantial progress the last months. I can only speak for myself but I have an overload of pathogens inside me and those are with high certainty what causes the symptoms I’ve referred to as PFS. In 2019 I cycled Vemoherb Tribulus on several occasions, I believe I took three or four bottles during the year. On it, I felt some relief and found a lot of my personality again. When I tapered of, I gradually slid into PFS state again; the detached state where penis feels disconnected and emotions get blurry, penis retracts, sleep and concentration problems and so on. A very shitty place to be, mildly put.
Tribulus terrestris has according to research an antibacterial effect. In my case, I don’t believe this has anything to do with 5AR or receptors. It’s just a bunch of microbial bad guys dragging me down. That’s why I feel so much better on Betaine HCL, probiotics and Tribulus terrestris and also when boosting with transdermal magnesium (simply facilitating better T production). I had a shoot-in-the-dark with Metronidazole a couple of months ago and then Diflucan a couple of weeks ago. Both made some change, but far from any recovery. Diflucan actually made me think of my penis as something interesting again, which of course is nice. But I took other supplements at the same time.
(digression:) During the Metronidazole cure I caught a deep fascination for climbing and for the mountains. I haven’t felt something like that in years. I’ve always had the interest, but never pursued it. This interest has persisted and I watch documentaries and am joining a friend of mine this summer to start trying this out. It feels good to feel some connection to a field of interest again.
I’m just saying, it might be that when you take Trib, you can experience a bad reaction from die-off as well as increased E2. For those of you feeling good on Trib (in the case of pathogens) you’re probably better off microbially than those feeling worse since die-off might not be that bad. But be careful with the aromatase.
I’ve had frequent UTI symptoms the last year. It seems Tribulus does a good job in keeping these down, based on experiences in 2019 and now.
Again, it might be that the majority of this forum has the “real” PFS. But I have a lot of symptoms corresponding to a lot of you and I’m battling this with high probiotic doses, digestive enzymes, HCL and tribulus now, and it has a significant effect. It makes me function almost as before, except for a truly stable emotional/sexual life (still some fluctuating libido/sensitivity depending on supplement state and what I eat), and I’m also a bit reduced energy-wise (procrastination/brain fog). But even these are getting better. I also struggle with short-term memory. After Diflucan I’ve felt attraction to women and the urge to make contact and to have sex. I haven’t felt that for years. The point here is that I need multiple “attack supplements” targeting different things to feel something resembling “acceptable”/“good”.
I’m not claiming this is the answer for all of us, far from. I just wanted to point out that what someone are perceiving as receptor reconnection with Trib might just be killing off bacteria and/or fungi. And these guys can cause hormonal distress and stress in general. And a body ridden with stress is not a body in a good condition for reproduction, as we all know.
I’m starting to wonder if I actually could megadose myself out of this misery. Let’s see.
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So, what do you specifically recomend?
Also:n did you visited any doctor? Did you perform any test?
So now Tribulus is an anti-biotic, and still no one has recovered with it?
Several dozen cycles of Tribulus have improved my condition a LOT.
It has enabled me to use things that people (including myself) crashed on before, such as creatine, sorghum, and even straight up DHT. I had hormonal suppression when attempting to use 2-3 mg of 11-keto DHT before, whereas now I can use up to 15 mg drops with NO negative side effects. Couldn’t use creatine at all. Now I can take any of those things if I choose. I am literally now on 15 drops of keto-DHT trying to further shock my system back into 5-AR production. Nothing I do affects me negatively since I used sufficient quantities of (quality) tribulus. My testosterone reading went up from 600 to >1000. Now the only thing left to work on is my low serum (and tissue) DHT levels.
Before you attempt to increase DHT, you HAVE to have sufficient AR density, or your CNS 5AR1 will shutdown due to negative feedback. This is a simple fact and reason why people feel bad when they reach for DHT-boosting supplements without having laid the groundwork of restoring/resensitizing their androgen receptors.
And this is where Tribulus really helps. I’m glad I found this thread, and I’m definitely glad I’ve taken it because it set the first steps on my way to recovery. For the record, everything that gave me any improvement, there was someone here who said it was dangerous or a bad idea. Which it probably is if you don’t do things in the correct order, or take supplements of bad quality.
My 2c.
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Watch out, people! With tribulus terrestris I had a catastrophic reaction that left me disabled. I can’t work, watch TV, play videogames, do sport.
Every body is unique and may have an unique reaction.
We should avoid experimenting, until we’ll know what’s the cause of PFS/PSSD/PAS6
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It’s amazing to me how many people are still enthousiastic about Tribulus after being told that:
A) It’s a 5ARI
B) Several people have reported to have significantly worsened conditions because of it
C) There is no scientific proof of it’s beneficial effects regarding sexual function in human beings, as far as I know the only research that pointed towards a positive conclusion was conducted on rats and rabbits. I believe it was Indian or Chinese traditional medicine that promoted the consumption of Tribulus for sexual functioning, and if something should obviously not be trusted in general it is traditional medicine.
D) They come in unsafe unpredictable shippings of highly variable quality.
E) Known scammers are tirelessly promoting it.
Tribulus is definitely not one of the first things I would try.
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If you look on google, Tribulus improves libido. Boom. There you go. Problem solved. Popped a pill and lost your libido? No worries, just pop another pill that increases libido according to people on the internet.
People are enthusiastic about it because some have genuinely improved their condition due to it. There aren’t many things out there that can be said about.
I get it that people here are feeling bad, but there is an unhealthy amount of negative energy vented towards substances with claimed benefits (and the people using them). It gets old.
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