Wendy Zukerman

Muhammad Ali was also into it.

He built a whole farm.

So that he could be away from his wife before a fight.

So could it be true?

And the thing is, when you orgasm, it can lead to a rush of hormones like oxytocin and prolactin, which can make us feel relaxed and lower our energy.

And so I asked Justin, so if you don't ejaculate, you don't get that sense of relaxation, which some may interpret as tiredness, you would...

And so there have been studies that have actually looked at this in terms of sports performance.

So, for example, there's this research that basically gets guys, it's all, I think it's all men in these studies, that tells them not to have sex the night before.

And then they'll test whether they can lift more weights or cycle faster.

Okay.

Or my favorite, test their grip strength.

Oh, yes.

Yep.

And so I asked Justin, what have these studies found?

It doesn't affect it.

Your energy, you'd wasted your seat.

You'd wasted your energy.

There is one sort of exception to this idea that perhaps it doesn't matter that maybe might make you feel better about your thinking around gigs.

And so the study, Justin's actually referring to one particular study.

It was a study of 15 male athletes randomly assigned to have sex and ejaculate or not have sex.