Maybe it does for some people. However, it may not work for you if your porn use has led to addiction processes in your brain. These are physical changes, which numb your response to pleasure, make you hypersensitive to porn related cues, and impair your executive control (self-control) due to alterations in your frontal lobes.
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Comments: In a mouse model of Parkinson’s, treadmill exercise increased dopamine D2 receptors . Addictions cause a decline in D2 receptors which is partly the cause of desensitization. Another reason to exercise.
Movement Disorders
Volume 25, Issue 16, pages 2777-2784, 15 December 2010
Marta G. Vučcković MSc1,2, Quanzheng Li PhD3, Beth Fisher PT, PhD4, Angelo Nacca PhD5, Richard M. Leahy PhD3, John P. Walsh PhD6, Jogesh Mukherjee PhD7, Celia Williams BSc2, Michael W. Jakowec PhD2,4, Giselle M. Petzinger MD2,4*
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Regular readers will recall my recent posts on the notion that the benefits of regular exercise on body weight are largely mediated by the positive impact on caloric intake rather than by the number of calories burnt.
This notion is based on the idea that exercise modulates eating behaviour by reducing stress, improving mood, and perhaps, even by reducing the ‘reward’ response of palatable foods.
The latter assumption, is supported by a recent stud by Maciej Buchowski and colleagues from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, published in PLoS.
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COMMENTS: One controversy surrounding dopamine is whether it is behind feelings of pleasure. It’s well established that dopamine produces desire and cravings or “wanting”, but is it involved in “liking”. Researchers have separated the liking from wanting in food experiments, and determined dopamine is not involved in the hedonic aspects of food. But does this also apply to sex, friendly interactions and love? Studies clearly shoe that self reports of pleasure parallel dopamine levels.
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Comments: It’s common knowledge among addiction researchers that behavioral addictions and substance addictions involve the same pathways and similar or overlapping mechanisms. This is another study corroborating this paradigm. Addictions hijack our normal pathways in the hub of the reward circuit, which is why they affect us in so many ways.
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For longer, more detailed ED accounts see rebooting accounts.
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A small sampling from MedHelp (roughly 2000 posts on different threads) of various men who have experienced porn-related ED.
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Comments: Another study validating the concept of a binge trigger, as described in our videos and articles.
By TARA PARKER-POPE
New York Times
July 11, 2011
“Bet you can’t eat just one” (as the old potato-chip commercials had it) is, of course, a bet most of us end up losing. But why? Is it simple lack of willpower that makes fatty snacks irresistible, or are deeper biological forces at work?
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