The causes of premature ejaculation are as varied as the men who deal with the condition. Causes can range from simple nutritional issues to serious underlying conditions but the most common cause can be found not below the belt, but between the ears. Mental issues – primarily stress and anxiety – are the leading causes for many sexual performance issues, including premature or early ejaculation.
Your Brain is More Powerful Than You Think
How you think and feel can have a huge impact on your physical health and overall well-being. There are many links between stress, anxiety and a host of physical ailments including heart disease, diabetes and gastrointestinal problems. This is because your stress levels are directly linked to a number of other systems in the body. When you experience stress – large or small – it sets off a domino effect of over 1,400 other biochemical events. These reactions set off a number of different results within the body. Over time, they can lead to signs of premature ageing, lowered energy and affect your ability to think clearly. One of the more serious effects is something researchers have dubbed “cortical inhibition”. This refers to the phenomena where stress inhibits the functionality of the brain, resulting in foggy or cloudy thinking and a higher chance of making bad decisions.
So how does all this relate to your sexual performance? These physical effects begin in the head, but they affect every part of the body. Although erections are sometimes seen as little more than an automatic physical reaction, the truth is that there’s a whole lot going on behind the scenes. Even a so-called ‘automatic erection’ relies on signals regulating blood circulation and vessel dilation. Stress can initially inhibit the nervous system’s ability to communicate effectively with the rest of the body which is how stress can bring on problems with impotence. In the case of premature ejaculation, stress inhibits a part of the brain responsible for arousal control. That causes your system to be flooded with endorphins at an incredible rate, simply overloading your senses and bring on a ejaculation before you’re ready.
Dealing With Stress and Anxiety at The Source
Understanding how stress affects you mentally and physically is the first step in treating the problem at its source. Typically, stress and anxiety and lumped together as one often causes the other. When dealing with high levels of both, many people find it helpful to see out treatment from a psychologist or personal counsellor in order to deal with the many underlying causes. Other times, however, people are able to identify the primary cause of their stress and anxiety and address it on their own. Although resolving the core issues affecting your stress levels may take some time, there are other positive steps you can take in actively lowering your stress levels.
- Exercise – There is no doubt that physical activity helps to slash stress rates. Stress reduces anxiety, floods your body with endorphins and also boosts neurogenesis. This final benefit results in a brain that is actually more resistant to stress in the future.
- Sex – For men dealing with premature ejaculation, there’s some irony in this natural stress blaster. But sexual activity – even if it doesn’t involve penetration, can have the same effect. Sexual intimacy releases dopamine along with a host of other naturally occurring chemicals which soothes the system.
- Meditation – Meditation or silent reflection doesn’t have to have a spiritual or religious component. Many people rule it out as they feel it means they have to go about it in a certain way but meditation is, quite simply, the act of sitting quietly for a few minutes. Before you brush it off as some kind of New Age Wackiness, consider the results of a comprehensive study done at Harvard University. Researchers there found that people who meditated regularly had more “disease-fighting genes” than those who didn’t relax regularly.
- Nutritional Support – People with a diet high in salt, fat and processed foods are more vulnerable to a host of conditions. Diabetes, depression, chronic pain and kidney deterioration. And, of course, they also seriously affect how your body handles stress.
These simple treatments can help to substantially help to reduce stress levels which can, for many men, address sexual issues such as premature ejaculation. Although there is no instant cure-all for this condition, taking positive steps to reduce stress can help you rule it out as a potential cause which leads to better – and successful – treatment of the condition.
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