Andrew Huberman· PhD
The prolactin is essentially establishing the refractory period, and the dopamine is essentially overriding the refractory period.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The prolactin is essentially establishing the refractory period, and the dopamine is essentially overriding the refractory period.
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So because the words refractory period um encompass a bunch of things, right? The um difficulty in achieving erection as easily as one did prior to the first mating, right? Um presumably this bypasses all the dopamine aspect of it.