Andrew Huberman· PhD
Yeah, I would say any discussion about sex, we were referring to consensual, age appropriate, species appropriate, context appropriate.
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Yeah, I would say any discussion about sex, we were referring to consensual, age appropriate, species appropriate, context appropriate.
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I think as we spoke about with oxytocin, there is some degree of par bonding that if you have a partner, and you experience you know, an intimate loving, you know, relationship that involves that, then you can have hormonal benefits that are sleep promoting, that may not necessarily be seen if you're just engaging you know, in the solo singular act of masturbation.
The data is actually quite compelling, that both either subjectively assessed sleep quality, or objective amount of sleep, sex that has resulted in orgasm, and I think it's that latter part that typically needs to happen.
What's really interesting and why I want to pull in all listeners, not just 50%, is there was a great trial that looked at how women slept after an orgasm with themselves and they slept better. And then it looked at women being intimate with a man and they slept better. But women being intimate with a man and having an orgasm with that man synergistically improved their sleep.
And when we study it either via diary or via there's great studies that look at resting heart rate, sleep latency, many of the measurements that we look to in terms of looking at sleep efficiency and quality subjectively and objectively improve with intercourse.
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