This podcast is for you, the Modern Man. I'm Dr Anne Truong,

your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and best

selling author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll

do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how

it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get

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Do you know that sleep controls and trigger and maintain your

erection, not only at night, but also during the daytime as well?

So stay tuned to this episode the beginning to end. I want to

give you some very surprising reason how sleep is affecting

your erection and also your mood. I'm Dr Anne Truong. I've

treated over 7000 men with ED.

All right, let's dive into it. Sleep is something important

that we do every day, but yet we take it for granted how

important it is to our life. Sleep is essential for our

attention, but it's also essential for your sex life. By

the end of this video, you're gonna know why men get morning

wood, I talked about in my last video here, and that sleep

duration and quality affect your testosterone and also your blood

flow health as well, and how not having good sleep, like sleep

apnea, can contribute to your ED. So what happened to your

erection during a sleep? At my last video, I talked about how a

man can get three to five nighttime and morning erection

during sleep, particularly at rapid eye movement, right? And

it can last for about 20 minutes or even 30 minutes or even 40

minutes as well. So key point here is that when you are in

rapid eye movement or REM sleep, you actually feel more relaxed,

and therefore you put a break on your erection. You don't have

that stress factor like something called epinephrine.

Number two, your relaxation nerve, which is parasympathetic,

which parasympathetic mean erection, and nitric oxide

increases during REM sleep, and therefore allow the blood to

fill in the penis. And then number three, and that when

you're sleeping, is mother nature, way of exercising your

penis, making sure that you have enough oxygen so that way your

penis doesn't become scarred down. So that's the three

important thing.

The next part is that, why do you have erection in the first

place? Erection when you're sleeping is mother nature's way

of stretching, bringing more blood flow and allowing you to

kind of exercise the penis while you sleep, but it's only

critical when you are in good quality sleep, which is rapid

eye movement, which is when you dreaming. Know most of the time

you don't know that you're dreaming at all, but you'll know

that your dream or sometime when you wake up, you will have that

kind of like peaceful feeling.

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But do you know that good quality sleep, which is about

seven hours of sleep with multiple episode REM actually

increases your testosterone, and then it will also help increase

nitric oxide, which then increases blood flow, which then

help with daytime erection. But not only that, it will also help

with your mood, decreasing depression and decreasing

anxiety. Studies have shown that if you have less than five to

six hours of sleep per night, several nights in a row, it will

actually reduce your testosterone level in healthy

men. And that if this is repeated over a period of time

where you're not getting good sleep, you're going to have

lower sex drive or libido, fatigue during the day, as well

as reduce morning erection. So chronic sleep deprivation not

only contribute to ED but will also contribute to your sex

drive and also your mood as well too. That's something to

remember, guys. So how long is long? The study shows that if

you go for a week that you're not getting good sleep, that

will start affecting your erection as well as your

Now let's talk a little bit about sleep apnea. Sleep apnea

testosterone.

is the condition where you have excessive snoring, sometimes

you're not getting a lot of oxygen into your nose or your

mouth, and it affects your brain. Well, if you have sleep

apnea, decreases oxygen, it will also increase sympathetic

activity, which then inhibit erection, and then also cause

kind of, so what we call oxidative stress, or kind of

like inflammation stage. But the bottom line is that sleep apnea

will actually affect the inflammation of the lining of

the blood vessel, causing decreased blood flow, reduces

nitric oxide synthesis and also decrease your sex drive as well.

So very, very important, short sleep duration and poor sleep

quality is associated with ED because it lowers your

testosterone, increases inflammation and decreases blood

flow and your mood. So if you're noticing decreased morning

erection and you're also noticing decreased sex drive,

then you need to look at your sleep quality, all right. So how

do you know? Sometimes you can go to get a sleep study. Ask

your doctor to order a sleep study test for you. Now you can

even get to sleep study at home, you will put the monitor on, and

it will monitor the quality of your sleep to determine how

you're sleeping, as well as determine whether you have sleep

apnea.

Okay, Modern Man. If you're struggling with weak erection,

low energy, the food you eat could be the big part of the

problem. One of the best research pathways to boost

circulation, support healthy testosterone and improve sexual

performance is the Mediterranean diet. It's packed with food that

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So those are the things you really need to look at closely,

because sleep is so important, and it will affect how you

function during the day, your alertness, your productivity. So

you're starting to feel, and you're feeling fatigued, you're

feeling low libido, and your erection is not as good as it

used to be, and your mood's not as good you used to be. Then you

need to get your sleep study test, and you'll know if you're

having frequency of morning erection, whether it's decrease

or not, as well, because that's another indicator as well. So

prioritize your sleep. Get a seven hours of sleep, good

quality sleep. Go to bed on early schedule. I recommend

going to bed no later than 11 o'clock and decrease your screen

exposure on the phone two hours before you go to bed. Don't take

caffeine more than past 6pm before your bedtime. And also

alcohol, believe it or not, will also affect your sleep quality

as well too. Unfortunately, you drink alcohol most of the time

at night. But alcohol do affect sleep quality. Believe me, I

like my wine too, and I will feel it sometimes when I go to

my wine dinner party as well. So the bottom line is, erection is

not just about arousal or blood flow at all. It affects your

mood, affects your testosterone affects your energy level. It

will also affect your productivity. It will affect

even daytime. So it's not just about erection alone. So get

that good sleep quality, if not get a sleep study test.

So I hope you find this is helpful and that it will guide

you on what you need to do for getting out of ED. If you need

help in ED breakthrough, ED reset, apply to see if we can

help you. Click the link down below right here, and I love to

see how we can help you get out of ED. There are alternatives to

ED. You do not have to suffer. You are not broken and you are

not alone. There are at least 30 million men suffering with this

and they don't know what to do, and we are here for you at this

point. Okay, modern man, let's create a sexual revolution.

Let's break down ED and do an ED reset. I'll see you in the next

episode.

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