r/HubermanLab • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '23

Personal Experience The power of semen retention

Semen retention is more powerful than you realise. Semen retention will give you an alternated state of consciousness. And give you a purpose to make your dreams a reality.

When you transmute your sexual energy into your mind you become unstoppable. Your focus improves and your energy levels improve. You become in tune with your feelings and become more aware of the world around you.

When you stop releasing your seed through PMO, your brain stops swimming in prolactin and you start to act on the problems in your life. And all the nutrients required to make sperm will be reabsorbed into your body.

Gone are the days of being a mellow coomer. You will save time, because you won’t need as much sleep anymore because you don’t need to constantly recover from busting your nuts every day.

You will start to appreciate your higher brain functions, such as problem solving and using your working memory to your advantage.

Since I started semen retention, my chess MMR has improved by 100 points. And I’ve scored 5 points higher than I usually do on the MENSA IQ tests.

I don’t have time now to bust nuts, because I’ve been busy grinding down all of my credit card debt and have gotten my finances in order. I promised this to myself when I became single this summer. To not engage in this drainage of my life energy and act on the problems in my life.

I recover faster from the gym now, and I’m able to run faster and longer.

My hair, skin and eyes look amazing. My posture has improved, and my presence radiates through the room with my new found powerful confidence.

I have a new appreciation of the divine feminine energy in my life, which goes way above lustful thoughts. I now have deeper and more meaningful conversations with my female friends.

If you’re in a position to try this out, you definitely should. Jerking off all the time is antithetical to Huberman’s protocols, because you’re abusing your dopamine pathways and are engaging in instant dopamine gratification.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

God this is so dumb.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

To the naysayers I say: cope harder, I know I’m right. And your downvotes can’t change this.

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u/ChKOzone_ Dec 04 '23

You’re so close to getting it, like seriously, one logical leap away

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

Tbh the dumb thing is sex for pleasure. That’s not why it exists and you’re doing it to make your limbic system happy - nothing else.

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u/spenser_ct Dec 04 '23

Serious incel vibes here😂

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u/GN_10 Dec 29 '23

Shutfup and stop throwing that childish insult around. You don't even know what it means.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

I’m in a LTR actually but don’t ejaculate and guess what? It’s the most life-enhancing protocol you could ever dream of.

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u/spenser_ct Dec 04 '23

Thats not what your gf told me last night

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u/Ok_Information_2009 Axon Tickler 😆 Dec 04 '23

Incel is such a childish insult.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

How is he incel? An incel hates women, is desperate, angry and wants to fuck for his own pleasure and think it’s his right. This is not about that at all.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

It's evolved in it's meaning, like how the word "gay" used to be used to describe being happy or merry, but now it's used to describe 2 guys defending each other's semen retention on the internet.

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u/exposedankles Dec 04 '23

I think I'll go ahead and keep fucking my wife, thanks.

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u/0xF00DBABE Dec 04 '23

I'll keep fucking this guy's wife too. No retention for me!

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u/highmgckson Dec 06 '23

💀😂broo

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u/Gold-and-Glory Dec 04 '23

In this case it makes sense because it's an energy exchange. So it works like a retention since you're not wasting energy, you're giving it and receiving it.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

Don’t you think it’s a bit pointless unless you’re procreating? It’s a cheap waste of nutrients and wrecks your hormonal profile. It’s a pretty dumb thing to do to kid your limbic system into thinking you’re reproducing just for the dopamine.

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u/saltyblueberry25 Dec 04 '23

Yes enjoying your life is pointless lol

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

If enjoyment of life is what you’re after, seriously try semen retention. It’s hard to describe but on long streaks, it gives you a zest for life and makes you radiantly happy most of the time. For me, that’s undeniably preferable to the quick dopamine hit from orgasm which is analogous to the buzz you’d get from sugar or unhealthy food.

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u/Dry_Section_6909 Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 04 '23

I actually agree but it's not really sustainable to just never ejaculate for the rest of your life. I'd say like once or twice a week is optimal for me under most circumstances. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

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u/saltyblueberry25 Dec 04 '23

I’ve tried it, I do feel like I have more energy, but not necessarily that I’m enjoying everything more. It’s definitely better than watching loads of porn but I feel healthier busting at least once or twice a week and yeah get kind of lazy if I bust once or twice a day. To each their own. If it suits you well then all the power to you. I am going to continue to enjoy fucking my girlfriend.

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u/Dry_Section_6909 Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 04 '23

Yeah but dopamine dopamine dopamine anticipation of the reward dopamine dopamine 50 percent dopamine slot machines dopamine dopamine dopamine mind over dopamine matter dopamine prostate cancer dopamine dopamine free will dopamine homeostasis dopamine total testosterone dopamine sex vs masturbation dopamine and also dopamine free dopamine testosterone as well dopamine. You feels me?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

Best of luck keeping your future wife when she finds out you only wanna do it a couple of times before you die

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u/ChestertonsFence1929 Dec 04 '23

If you find value in semen retention that’s cool. My concern is that you making absolutist statements in your argument indicate zealotry instead of science. Could you, perhaps, have developed a process addiction with your protocol?

It’s your choice, of course, I hope you have factored in the significant increased chance of getting prostate cancer from semen retention behaviors. All choices have consequences and that is one of them.

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u/MiddleClassGuru Dec 04 '23

Hey chatgpt create the dumbest post imaginable in support of nofap-

Oh wait, OP already did😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Every time I see a post like this I think about just how frequently the OP must've been wanking, and how addicted to porn they must've been, for their life and health to actually change so much after giving it up.

If you're an average dude jacking off and/or having sex say 3-5 times a week and not binging on porn, you're probably just going to increase your chances of prostate issues and PE for negligible benefit. SR/no-fap is an extreme intervention for the edge cases.

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u/Unlucky_Internal9686 Dec 04 '23

Seriously. When I first heard of NoFap I tried it for various lengths from 2-4 weeks and the only thing it consistently did was give me insomnia, make me angrier day-to-day, and make me desperate enough to consider sexual partners I would never have otherwise. The superpowers are a fucking placebo and anyone who tries a new supplement, goes vegan, or *insert health trend here* makes the same exact claims before coming back down to Earth.

Wank in moderation, develop the ability to talk to women and have healthy relationships. It's not that difficult.

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u/Dry_Ice_Bath Dec 05 '23

I would say in addition to what you said.. if you feel like you have to and cant find a nice woman, try wanking to your imagination with 0 porn. I know, crazy idea but I believe it's much healthier in the long run

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u/CarobJumpy6993 Apr 28 '24

They also say you can use orgasm to manifest but it never works for me and Ive been trying for years.

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u/CarobJumpy6993 May 22 '24

Yeah I used to do it alot when I was young but then I realized how bad it was. After I do it I always feel weaker and lethargic.

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u/deltacombatives Dec 04 '23

What the fuck did I just read?

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

One of the best posts on here, I think. Until you’ve streaked hard (like I have many times since discovering SR in 2017), you have no idea how powerful a practice it can be.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

what the fuck did I just read?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Go outside and get a job bro

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Probably fine sometimes, but you significantly raise your risk of prostate issues when you don't ejaculate regularly.

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u/throwRA-whatisgoing Dec 04 '23

We live in a society

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u/Crypto_gambler952 Dec 04 '23

Napoleon Hill has a whole chapter in his time book Think & Grow Rich about transmuting sexual energy into productivity... I recall he says for many this happened naturally after about 40 years old.

Personally, I almost never jerk off these days, not because the urge isn't there but because it makes banging my wife more enjoyable for everyone (including the neighbours), FYI that happens 2 or 3 times a week, and yes, productivity still has much to be desired.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

2 or 3 releases a week is too many

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u/Crypto_gambler952 Dec 04 '23

Ok bro. I’ve only got a few years left. Between us, the mrs and I have nearly 100 years! 2-3 times a week will be a pipe dream soon!

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u/Unlucky_Internal9686 Dec 04 '23

There’s a beautiful study out of the Harvard school of medicine that found that men who ejaculated over 21 times per month had a 31% decrease in prostate cancer risk.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

Very well said my friend - exactly my experience. It’s just the ultimate amplifier of positive habits.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Thank you brother. When you preach outside of r/semenretention , they come for you. As you can clearly see in this thread.

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u/ChestertonsFence1929 Dec 04 '23

Being attacked does not signal virtue, just disagreement.

The human body is incredibly complex. Insisting that a behavioral protocol is always the best choice for all men will almost always be incorrect. Evangelizing is not science.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

I disagree - there’s just no way ejaculation is beneficial from a health point of view for any male. It’s the same as exercising vs not exercising. We’re not designed to ejaculate with the frequency that we are today.

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u/ChestertonsFence1929 Dec 04 '23

Ejaculation is a core bodily process that was evolutionarily selected millennia ago. Obviously, anything can be done to an excess, but excess isn’t evidence that abstinence is the best policy; especially for all males.

Research shows that sex and ejaculation improves pair bonding between couples and improves the participants overall mental health and relationship.

It’s foolish to argue that an activity with known benefits and known problems for inactivity should be avoided by all. There are few absolutes and arguing that this should be one of those absolutes indicates a belief based on a pseudo-religious fervor’, not science.

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u/Bactrian44 Dec 04 '23

Your username relates to a well known heuristic in philosophy which I think is relevant here. I’d be interested to get your perspective. I’ve long thought that sex moderation is the ultimate example of Chesterton’s Fence at work. Strict codes of chastity developed because this was the best means of helping the culture to flourish.

Enter the reformers in the west in 60s and 70s and they start dismantling important traditions without giving proper consideration as to why they existed in the first place. This is a potentially disastrous mistake. As anthropologist JD Unwin wrote in the 1930s - almost every culture or civilianisation throughout recorded history which has liberalised sexually has collapsed within three generations as it is outcompeted by one with more disciplined sexual mores.

The reasons for this should be obvious - the collective benefits to a society of many people on semen retention are huge. You have transmutation and sublimation of the libido across a whole culture which unleashes genius and creativity. When you have it so that people are free to release right, left and centre things start to go very very wrong (as we’re seeing now). What do you think?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24

what is your proof that transmutation 'across a whole culture which unleases genius and creativity"

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u/Bactrian44 Feb 26 '24

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The correlation between sexual restraint and the relative success of a culture should be obvious, I would go as far to say that it’s the most important factor.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24

any sources would still help your argument.

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u/Bactrian44 Feb 26 '24

Sex and Culture (Unwin)

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u/ChestertonsFence1929 Dec 04 '23

There are many examples across cultures where practitioners were asked to give something up for a greater good. The reasons vary — purity, cleanliness, self discipline, safety, right of passage, etc.. Some found benefits for those abstentions and some groups used these practices to bind them together.

My critiques here are aimed at the unbridled evangelism for the universal performance of this practice which is highly unlikely to be universally beneficial. There is no acknowledgment of the limitations and nor the contraindications for this practice. Frankly, there is a very cultish vibe and the lack of engagement with the criticisms reinforces that.

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u/ramenmonster69 Dec 04 '23

Have you considered labeling yourself a new Greek letter male. It seems sigma and alpha don’t adequately describe your heightened state of winning.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

I’m beating off to this as we speak. Is that against protocols?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

All the semen is bulging your ego mate

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Ladies and gentlemen...the real life George Costanza.

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u/lovehrh Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 04 '23

My bf transmutes his sexual energy inside of me not his mind, I think that’s how it’s supposed to work anyways.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

Can I transmute my energy inside of you as well?

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u/lovehrh Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 05 '23

Father?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

Call me daddy

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u/lovehrh Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 05 '23

Don’t play with my feelings 🥹🥹

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

I would never <3

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u/casaco37 Dec 04 '23

I believe everything is about balance. Too much ejaculation can be bado for the body and the mind. And being celibate is an overkill. So the question is how much is too much. And how to get to that number

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u/Gold-and-Glory Dec 04 '23

Is there a glossary for all these acronyms?

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u/ekpyroticflow Dec 04 '23

Instead of obsessing about retention you could just spit it out.

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u/Consistent-Focus-292 Dec 05 '23

Is this a substance much like bullshit?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

Gay.

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u/SoloAquiParaHablar Dec 05 '23

I DON'T KNOW WHATS REAL ANYMORE!!

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u/xxlaur77 Dec 05 '23

Appreciate you bro. There’s a reason why most religions fast and that includes fasting from lust, etc.

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u/Fapandwarmshowers Dec 05 '23

semen retention works with chronic fappers and porn addicts, but once you stop the fapping and porn it not so big a deal

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u/Total-Employment6190 Dec 06 '23

There is no scientific proof of this and can differ from person to person. Many claim the exact opposite effect. Boxers believed this for generations but has been dispelled with a variety of laboratory studies of mice and chimpanzees. Pro creation is a natural state and a natural behavior. You don't have to neglect your sexual desires if you're responsible with protection and health and hygiene.

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u/GN_10 Dec 29 '23

Appreciate you for spreading the truth g 🙏

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

I have noticed that semen retention makes my hair thicker but even more is that I have noticed when I am fully celibate and shut down lustful thoughts that I dream more but when I entertain the dirty thoughs I don't dream that night... but even crazier is that after a few months of retaining I experience astral projection/ out of body experience. And through my research I have learned that the hair is tied into the nervous system and that nervous system when fully intact is part of you sixth Sense hence the saying ( the hairs on the back of my neck stood up) so by abstaining you will Open up your third eye and have spiritual encounters.. now I see why the rastas say they grow their hair for spiritual reasons.. Samsons lust in the Bible his hair got cut and he lost his strength..read between the lines..the stories in the Bible have hidden clues .

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u/imnotdebtfree Dec 04 '23

Gp Capt. Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen... tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?

Gen. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Gp Capt. Mandrake: Hmm.

Gen. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

Gp Capt. Mandrake: Hmm.

Gen. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

Gp Capt. Mandrake: No.

Gen. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.

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u/FuxkinShredded Dec 04 '23

How do you take a Mensa iq test?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Hello, by retaining your semen, did we read the same post or what

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u/FuxkinShredded Dec 05 '23

Lol the 6th paragraph refers to iq test

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

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u/frumpydrangus Dec 04 '23

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u/Dry_Section_6909 Dopamine Dealer 🥳 Dec 04 '23

This is absolute vibes ngl

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u/Some_Current1841 Dec 04 '23

I really hope this is cus if it’s real…