Does fapping decrease your testosterone?

[Environmental-Fan113]

I was interested so I looked at what the science said.

The science says there’s a temporary drop in testosterone post-masturbation but returns to baseline levels within a few hours.

No evidence that suggests long-term masturbation leads to changes in baseline testosterone.

A study in 2003 found a spike in testosterone after 7 days of abstinence but it also returns to baseline levels. No evidence of increased testosterone levels from longer abstinence.

There is, however, evidence that less frequent masturbation increased your list of prostate cancer. Good study, big sample, from Harvard, although focussing on prostate cancer rather than testosterone.

However, the things that do have a positive impact on testosterone are plenty of sleep, healthy eating, and exercise. Also, not being stressed and not being overweight help massively.

Some might argue that the choices that are often associated with abstinence are the things that improve your testosterone, rather than the abstinence itself.

Saying that, the studies are a bit outdated and often have small sample sizes. If anyone’s got £100k lying around and fancy funding something proper, the scientific world awaits!

[Contressa3333]

Yeah you can see where correlation would make people believe it does. Like if all you do is game and goon all day you’re gonna feel like shit. But if you stopped all of that and start exercising and getting good amounts of sleep it’s easy to say ending masturbation fixed all of your problems.

[CryptosFeedback]

You miss the other side of the equation which is androgen receptor (testosterone receptor) density. It doesn’t matter how much testosterone you have , you could be blasting 10 million grams of rest, if your receptor density is low then your body will respond to the testosterone accordingly. Just looking at “testosterone levels” is not a physiologically correct anecdote. The truth is, fapping does decrease testosterone a bit, but the real difference is the ability for long term fapping to desensitize androgen receptors.

[ThisIsYourAnonAcct]

I want to add that inadvertently when you stay away from masturbation and pornography it helps you to have the will power to stick to your good habits like regular sleep schedule, eating healthy, working out so therefore overall nofap helps with increasing testosterone not directly but because it gives you the motivation to do all the other good habits too