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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, debunks yet another myth about the frequency of sex and ejaculation where some people relate it to the risk of developing prostate cancer.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We're focusing on various myths that we need to debunk

00:04and this one you're going to like because we're going to talk about

00:07correlation between frequency of ejaculation and also prostate cancer.

00:19Contrary to common belief in the East especially when you ejaculate too much

00:24then you might actually bring down your Qi.

00:26Some people even believe that you might end up with kidney failures

00:30and in the West they always worry about whether there's a risk of getting

00:36prostate cancer with frequent ejaculation.

00:39So believe it or not in US there was a study called the Harvard Ejaculation Study.

00:46In this study they focus at more than 29,000 men in the New England area.

00:53These are all the volunteers telling the actual investigator how frequent they ejaculated.

01:00So there was a group of men in the younger age group and the middle age

01:05and focusing them from 1986 until year 2000

01:10and they declare how often they either have nocturnal emission or masturbation or intercourse.

01:18And in this study believe it or not with number of frequency of sex or ejaculation that you have

01:27the risk of prostate cancer can reduce by up to 36%.

01:32So in this study one group of men declaring between 4 to 7 times of ejaculation per month

01:39versus 21 times a month the risk difference is 36% of getting prostate cancer in older age.

01:48So is this really a study that can be replicated?

01:52In fact in Down Under in Australia they looked at 2,338 men with a similar outcome.

02:01Essentially looking at men who ejaculated almost on a daily basis

02:06versus the men who only ejaculated between 4 to 7 times a month

02:12again the difference is about 30% reduction in prostate cancer.

02:18So in summary frequent ejaculation probably is protective rather than risky for the cancer

02:28development. Some critics say that if you have more frequent ejaculation by definition you're

02:34probably healthier who knows but the risk is probably not there in developing cancer in the

02:42future. For the following week there's another myth we need to debunk it's talking about

02:48frequency of ejaculation correlations with your sperm quality.

02:52If you're interested stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr G on the Spot.

EP251: Climatic protection from prostate cancer | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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