I've done lots of research, and realized fapping literally destroys the human body

I've been doing lots of research in the last year due to my own trials with PMO. It became clearer to me how completely damaging fapping may be for the human body and brain. I'd read scientific studies about androgen receptors, and the endocrine system. Testimonies from people who'd experienced differences mental and physical. Also prostate cancer and the side effects of anti-androgens to treat this; how these effects are the same as those from fapping. I've then seen the worrying misinformation put out by many generic medical websites, which are quite wrong and make me wonder if any of them are funded by the parent companies of pornography websites/studios. After all, if people aren't fapping, this industry would die. These questionable medical websites cite the same boring tid bit "masturbation doesn't lower testosterone in the long run" and there's no mental or physical harm.

What I've found, is fapping suppresses/nullifies the androgen receptors in the brain, especially if done daily, filling their 'locks' with 'keys' from other sources of dopamine and such. Testosterone then cannot be uptaken, and a person will therefore begin to suffer the mental and physical side effects of testosterone deficiency. This in turn allows an increase in estrogen.
· Anxiety.
· Depression.
· No drive/low will.
· Fatigue (oxytocin).
· Poorer memory and concentration.
· Possible mood swings.
· Increase in body fat, namely abdominal.
· Decrease in muscle gain/easy loss of lean mass.
· Potential for osteoporosis.
· Potential for low libido.
· Stunted pubic/masculine traits such as higher pitched voice, jawline width, head hair growth (I'll delve more into), though increased body hair post puberty interestingly.

Mentally and physically, fapping practically destroys a person. They might as well be taking anti-androgens. When I'd come across all this information (including studies from ncbi) it was quite shocking to me, because the afore mentioned seemingly propaganda pieces by textbook medical websites, suggest there's zero issues.Though people here know otherwise, or they wouldn't be attempting to stop and change their life.

As for hair loss, fapping seems to cause telogen effluvium, hair shedding is the better word as it won't make just anyone's hair permanently fall out first time. Loss of zinc, biotin and nutrients. Shocking the body to make hair enter telogen phase (small club shaped bulbs). Increased sebum and potential for dandruff. No T uptake causing an unhealthy hormonal imbalance. It's no wonder fapping makes people shed lots of hair and then it subsides, and grows thicker or healthier in time during abstinence. (Personal experience and testimonies I've seen coincide with this). Actual hair loss would be the above with the inclusion of the person's mother's father having suffered alopecia and passing on this gene in the XX chromosome.

Overall I hope anyone reading this will, if not already, be even more determined to never fap again, for it literally destroys the human body. (If anyone has information they'd like to add, please feel free, it's possible I've missed or aren't aware of something).

I'm starting my change today with this knowledge in tow.

 

Sorry for the late response everyone, a lot of these articles I came across over the last year and never saved them, but I've found some important studies on androgen surpression:

Effects of androgen deprivation/low T uptake on insulin resistance and obesity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23139353/

Androgen deprivation side effects on cardiovascular, bone, insulin and mental/cognitive health:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831824/

Alleviation of some side effects after stopping androgen suppression:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16104902/

Effects of exercise on 2 different types of androgen suppression:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21849187/

Effects of androgen suppression on QoL in males, focusing on:

body feminisation;
sexual changes;
relationship changes;
cognitive and affective symptoms;
fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression;
physical effects (added by authors).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735091/

Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer lowers T to castration levels, PMO should still allow some T to be uptaken but will no doubt nullify most of the receptors that'd regulate it. I'm sure we can all attest to this from it's side effects we've likely experienced.

Good luck everyone on your journey!

 

Did you read any of the studies or what I wrote?

I'm talking about androgen receptor deprivation, not low T caused by masturbation. Low T has been debunked as an effect of masturbation, the lowered amount is temporary. Nullufied androgen receptors are different, they are nullified androgen receptors whether the androgens are being filled with dopamine or supressed by prostate cancer medicine, and will be so for 24hrs, this will be an unending cycle if someone keeps PMOing. Most of these studies are about the effects of nullified androgen receptors from prostate cancer medicine and such. It also makes little difference whether androgen receptors are nullified or T production from the testes is, the outcome is still: T is not being uptaken, the results of T not being uptaken are the same regardless of cause.

I also put at the end:
"Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer lowers T to castration levels, PMO should still allow some T to be uptaken but will no doubt nullify most of the receptors that'd regulate it."

 

From studies, it seems these effects can be undone, both exercise and pausing the cause of stunted androgen uptake can help with androgen deprivation, even with a stronger cause like prostate cancer medication which completely stops T and it's uptake as opposed to masturbation harming the uptake alone.
My hair feels thicker after 3-4 weeks and hairfall has pretty much stopped, this isn't placebo or my imagining, it definitely felt thinner as I ran my fingers through it before, it now feels like there's more making contact with my fingers and my hair has more volume. With stopped hairfall, in the shower the strainer doesn't get a bunch of hair anymore. I also no longer feel down or fatigued (which would persist after 24hrs, oxytocin/prolactin's effects are normally several hours to a day).
With urges, I've have no urge anymore too which has been good. I'll make a review of abstinence's effects after I've done it for a few months, but so far things seem on the right track, I'm most happy my hair is thicker and not falling now. Next up, I'll see if muscle gain/abdominal fat loss becomes easier to achieve (eating clean and running/sprinting before didn't do much).