(07-08-2016, 05:53 PM)ALI6NMENT Wrote:(07-08-2016, 04:12 PM)Shannon Wrote: I would say that "nofap" means "no orgasm" because ANY orgasm produces the same results. Mastubating to porn has a different effect, but the orgasm is always the same regardless in how it affects your body. So having someone come give you a happy ending is still the same thing. Just you're pretending that it's somehow different because you didn't do it to yourself. Masturation, sex, and happy endings are all the exact same thing; the key is moderation and avoiding pornography.
I think basically what you're experiencing is a combination of the program flooding you with sexual energy, and you resisting part of the programming of the subliminal (the part that tells you to project that energy into the world around you, and cause sex with a woman to happen thereby).
Turning off the sex drive is a cop out. It's there because you need it. You just have to learn how to deal with it properly. You seem to have some issues that aren't finished being cleared yet.
Yeah I had a weird thing going on with nofap, every time I had no orgasm through self I would gain more confidence and notice women giving me more IOI, when I released my load by myself I would notice a decrease in confidence and attention/IOI from women.
So this is why I have been going with nofap, but as of late I am thinking that above what I just mentioned is a weird self fulfilling prophecy (one I would rather not have) and it's starting to lose its grip.
I feel more confident, attractive and self assured, for sure and I know I have issues but I am curious to see what this has in store for me next!
Also, if we don't make mistakes how we meant to learn from them? ....I'll just save myself some money next time and pay myself lol. I'll be rich in no time!
The confidence and IOIS probably comes from the increase in testosterone. Confidence is fueled by testoerone which is why women desire guys with masculine (physical and personality) traits because estrogen fuels uncertainty and insecurity. I hate to sound so binary, and it isn't the case for all women, but tend to be more emotionally stable than women thanks to testosterone. I'm not saying they're emotional wrecks but they probably go through more feelings both in the positive and negative in a single day then most guys will in a week. For guys everything is just "this is alright".
In terms of IOIs that's because androstenone, the human pheromone responsible for sexual attraction and desire is a metabolite of testosterone. The more testosterone you have the more androstenone you produce.
To fix these problems the natural way you have a few options:
vitamin d, vitamin k, ZMA (at bedtime), and 1 or 2 brazil nuts per day. You need vitamin D and K for testosterone and most people aren't getting enough because they spend most of their day inside and don't eat enough leafy greens but you can supplement these 2 easily.
ZMA is just a blend of zinc, magnesium, and b6 but it's cheaper and easier on the stomach than just zinc and it will help you sleep better which will also give you a boost in testosterone. Zinc can raise your testosterone back to baseline if you're low and selenium supresses estrogen. Estrogen is the feedback loop for testosterone, the more estrogen you have the less testosterone you will produce.
Some people over at raypeat's forum are expirmenting low doses of DHEA, we know it raises testosterone in older women but those are at larger doses. These guys are playing with doses of 2-5mg per day and are reporting good results so far, one guy took his testosterone levels to 1400 ng/dl which is at least double of the general male population under the age of 30. But if you take too much dhea then you'll convert more of it to estrogen which will of course lower your T levels. DHEA creams also convert at a rate of 40% to DHT - good if you want to build muscle since it's more anabolic than T but bad if you're predisposed to hair loss.
Eating high fat foods helps also, one blogger went from 450 to almost 700 in 3 months just by eating eggs and bacon. I'll try to find the link
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found it
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/18...naturally/
Quote:Let’s do a quick review of what I shared in the introduction to this series. August of last year was a tough month for me, primarily because of a huge and grueling project we were in the midst of here on the site. I was stressed out and my sleeping, healthy eating habits, and workout regimen all suffered. At the end of the month I got my testosterone levels tested and found that my total T was 383 ng/dL and my free T was 7.2 pg/mL – close to the average for an 85-100-year-old man.
I then began a 90-day experiment to see how diet and lifestyle changes could boost that number.
The reason I started the experiment at that point is because I know a lot of guys who live my last-August lifestyle all the time, and I wanted to see what would happen to an “average” guy who turned things around. At the same time, there was no “normal” time in my life which would have been better for me to start the experiment. My stress level and diet fluctuates throughout the year anyway, so at any point, factors in my current lifestyle would have influenced the results. I wanted to begin at “ground zero.”
After 90 days, I had my testosterone tested again. My total T had gone up to 778 ng/dL and my free T had risen to 14.4 pg/mL. I had doubled my testosterone.
