BPH and Ejaculation Frequency

Charlton, It's great that you bring up this topic.  We, in the U.S.,  are an extremely prudish society, going back to the Puritans who came here for the freedom to impose their religion on everyone else!

?I've always believed in the use it or lose it mantra for every organ in the body.  Evolutionarily, once a male stops ejaculating, there is no reason to remain alive.  So, to my logic, substantial exercise, a healthful diet and frequent ejaculations are required for a long, healthy life.

?I'm 75 y.o., and I've ejaculated at least once/day my entire life, and still have my eyesight.  In my 20s, I would ejaculate 3 or 4 times/day.   However, when working, that wasn't so convenient.

?Anyway, although my prostate is 70 cc., and my PSA is at 8.5, having been at 6.2 in 1999, I have never had any real prostate problems.  I do get up, typically twice/night (every 2.5-3 hours) to urinate; but, I don't find that to be a problem, at all. 

?I had two 10-core, random biopsies, both negative, in 1999 and then in 2005.  Since random biopsies should now be considered obsolete, in 2015 I had a multi-parametric MRI when my PSA temporarily zoomed up to 14 (then came back down a couple months later) that was also negative for suspicious PCa.

?I do gymnastics, and run, and lift weights, and dance a modern, aerobic style.  What's funny and tragic is that I've never seen a recommendation to ejaculate one's brains out to prevent disease.  I've never read about a clinical study to evaluate its effect (although it would be difficult to get anyone except a religious nut to agree to not masturbate for 20 years as the control).

Further, I have no chronic disease and take no pills, medications, supplements, exotic foods or fad diets--just natural, untainted, unpoisoned (almost all organically grown) food.  I also eat lotsa wild fish and stopped eating beef in 1970, and chicken in 1996.

I say, go for it.   And I, too, would love to hear from others their perceived benefits of frequent ejaculation.

?Harvey (in S. Calif.)

I should add that a year ago  I was speaking to a young physician who was about to deliver a talk on healthful lifestyle.  I though she would have had more credibility if she were 75 y.o.  Anyway, I offered to be an example of the result of a healthful lifestyle, and then mentioned frequent masturbation as one of the requirements.  She walked away from me!  I didn't attend her talk.  I knew there was nothing I could learn from her, since she was unwilling to learn from me, who had an actual life experience.  Or, she was just a prude, something incompatible with the practice of medicine.

?Harvey