Ejaculation is a reflex controlled by spinal messages. Just as you cannot control your knee from jerking when a doctor taps your knee with a rubber hammer to test your reflexes, you also cannot control ejaculation once the spinal message has been sent.
This means that you cannot “think” yourself into lasting longer once the ejaculatory reflex has begun.
Once those chemicals have been released in your spinal cord, your body is told to ejaculate. No matter how hard you try to control it, you simply can’t.
It’s just the way a reflex is.
However, if you can inhibit the spinal message that controls ejaculation, then you can last longer before reaching orgasm. This is because you delay the spinal reflex from sending its signal.Therefore, you must address this fact when discussing how to stop premature ejaculation.
According to Dr. William Ganong, M.D., a noted physician, physiologist, and medical educator whose textbook entitled “Review of Medical Physiology” has taught reproductive physiology to tens of thousands of physicians over several decades, “Ejaculation is a 2 part spinal reflex that involves emission, the movement of the semen into the urethra; and the ejaculation proper, the propulsion of the semen out of the urethra at the time of orgasm.”
Here is the good news:
Brain chemicals can have an inhibitory effect on spinal messages. The important chemical that can inhibit spinal cord messages is called serotonin.
For years physicians have been using medication known as SSRI’s. This stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. These medications have been used most widely to treat depression and anxiety.
Interestingly, physicians have found that SSRI’s effectively treat a very high percentage of men with P.E. and physicians have prescribed SSRI’s as a premature ejaculation solution for years.
SSRI’s increase the level of serotonin. This increase is crucial if one wants to help P.E.
In the brain, information is passed between nerve cells via a small gap between the cells called a synapse. The neuron, or nerve cell, that sends the information releases neurotransmitters, serotonin being one of them, into the synaptic gap.
The serotonin is then recognized by the recipient nerve cell. When the recipient nerve cell recognizes the serotonin, it is stimulated and relays the signal. Almost 90% of the serotonin is taken up again by the cells, hence reuptake. SSRI’s delay the reuptake of the serotonin.
By delaying the reuptake of serotonin, you are effectively increasing the quantity of sertonin that the receptor cells are exposed to. This increase in serotonin can effectively treat P.E. because a message is sent from the brain to the spinal cord to “inhibit” the reflex of ejaculation.
Here’s the bad news about SSRI’s…
1. They are a prescription drug. Therefore, a doctor’s prescription is necessary for proper dispensing of the medicine.
2. Prescription SSRI’s are costly.
3. You will need to schedule an appointment with your doctor, thereby having the nuisance of a costly and time consuming office visit.
4. In order to be prescribed an SSRI, you will have to discuss the embarassing topic of P.E. with your phsyician. After sharing this very private and intimate detail about yourself, your phsyician may not even prescribe an SSRI.
FACT: If you can help stabilize serotonin levels in the brain, then you can delay your orgasm and prevent premature ejaculation. Thereby lasting longer in bed, creating more pleasure for your partner, and satisfying her needs. This is how to stop premature ejaculation from occurring.
The Problem With Many Doctors
Another problem is that, unfortunately, many physicians are prescribing the wrong medication to treat premature ejaculation which adds to the problem of visiting a doctor’s office.
There is a medical difference between something known as erectile dysfunction, also known as E.D., and premature ejaculation.
Most men have seen advertisements for E.D. medication. E.D.medication is for men that have a problem getting an erection. This is not the same as premature ejaculation.
E.D. medication is not going to delay ejaculation. E.D. medication is going to increase blood flow to the penis aiding your erection.
We have made great advances in both the treatment and diagnosis of E.D. in the last ten years. E.D. was a taboo topic and often never discussed with physicians in the past.
In many ways, the topic of P.E. is similiar to where E.D. was ten years ago. Many physicians don’t ask their patients about it, and many patients are too embarrassed to bring it up with their doctor.
As a result many men just like you are looking for premature ejaculation treatments and have no where to turn for help. Until now!