Comments: teens tend be impulsive as we all know. One reason is that they get a bigger blast of dopamine for novel stimuli, and have a less developed “consequences” portion of the brain. Addicts have both of these attributes – only more pronounced, along with a numbed pleasure response.
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I started porn use pretty young, like most of you here probably did. I wanted to watch a band concert on a video my bro had. Needless to say, it wasn’t the band I expected. From here my habit continued for years, until I met my first girlfriend. I stayed free from porn whilst I […]
TIME Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008
By Alice Park
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This section highlights the science on dopamine/dopamine receptors and anxiety. One of the benefits that men experience as they reboot is remission of social anxiety. See – Was the Cowardly Lion Just Masturbating With Porn Too Much? Addiction affects dopamine and dopamine receptors altering our perception – sometimes drastically. Chronically low dopamine/dopamine receptors, punctuated by […]
I started masturbating at the age of 14. Some periods were…interesting. I could masturbate 4 times a day at the “interesting” periods which could last for a week. In any case, I masturbated at least once a day. Whenever I was abroad or not in the house, I did not masturbate. Those days were pain. I had erections all the time…
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Comments: Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist used primarily in the management of alcohol dependence and opioid dependence. The article has excellent explanations of the addictive process and behavioral addictions. by Michael Bostwick, MD and Jeffrey A. Bucci, MD doi: 10.4065/83.2.226 Mayo Clinic Proceedings, February 2008 vol. 83 no. 2 226-230 View online Article Outline […]
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COMMENTS: One of the few studies that covers how abstinence affects the levels of dopamine receptors.
Highlights:
– D2 receptors bounce back fairly quickly – less than a month
– D1 receptors are way too high at a month, but bounce back within 90 days.
– High or low D1 receptors may be keys to acute withdrawal and cravings
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COMMENTS: If you don’t feel like reading the abstracts below, or searching Medline for the rest of the studies, this is the bottom line:
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COMMENTS: First study to show that drug use causes a decline in dopamine (D2) receptors. Important because addicts have a low number of such receptors, which may contribute to addiction. Also shows that receptors can bounce back, but maybe not in everyone.
LAY ARTICLE: Cocaine Abuse And Receptor Levels: PET Imaging Confirms Link
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Scientists have actually measured many separate factors and their relationship to prostate cancer: 
ejaculation, intercourse frequency, marital status, number of sex partners, and cases of sexually transmitted disease. So far, study results conflict with each other on almost every factor, and the medical profession does not consider ejaculation frequency (or infrequency) to be risk factor for prostate cancer.
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