Here’s How To Reduce Your Risk Of Prostate Cancer
For men looking to reduce their risk of prostate cancer, studies have shown that there is one [...]
Frequent Ejaculation Throughout Adulthood Reduces Cancer Risk
In case you're already past your 20's, and worried that you may not have hit the numbers that you should have in your younger days, there is still good news. The lead author of the study, Jennifer Rider, explained that experiment revealed that frequent ejaculation is important throughout a man's adulthood.
"While our findings should be confirmed in studies that evaluate the potential biological mechanisms underlying the observed associations, the results of our study suggest that ejaculation and safe sexual activity throughout adulthood could be a beneficial strategy for reducing the risk of prostate cancer," Rider said in a press release.
So not only does more frequent ejaculation in a man's 20's make a drastic impact, but also, the study found that the cancer risk for men in their 40's who ejaculate more often are still 22 percent less likely to have prostate cancer.
Unfortunately, there is no magic number of times a man should ejaculate per month to reduce risk. However, the study clearly indicates that doing so more often will lower the chances of having prostate cancer.
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While the researchers have found that there is a possible link between ejaculation and prostate cancer, they aren't sure as to exactly why.
"Ejaculation frequency is, to some extent, a measure of overall health status in that men at the very low end of ejaculation — zero to three times per month — were more likely to have other [medical problems] and die prematurely from causes other than prostate cancer," the study reads.
The team noted that frequent ejaculation may be one of the only lifestyle changes that a man can make in order to reduce the risk for prostate cancer.
"The apparent protective effect of high ejaculation frequency was seen mainly in reduced numbers of low-risk forms of prostate cancer," the study reads.
Just because frequent ejaculation may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, other researchers warned against promoting sexual activity as a means of warding off a cancer diagnosis.
"Sexual activity can have some negative health consequences, such as acquiring a sexually transmitted infection," Siobhan Sutcliffe, a cancer researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said.
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