Are you tired of Fapping/Masturbating? Then I must introduce you to the Benefits of NoFap. If you don’t know how beneficial NoFap can be then you are not alone.
I’ll tell you some insane benefits of NoFap or No Masturbating that will make you stop it completely and find better ways to spend your time productively. It’s not going to be easy but it will be worth your time and effort.
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A lot of YouTubers claim that they have attained “superpowers” after taking the NoFap challenge. Even I’ve tried it for 60 days and saw amazing benefits and I don’t plan on stopping. Let’s talk about them in detail.
Benefits of NoFap:
- Increased Testosterone
- Improved Confidence
- Destroys Social Anxiety
- Better Social Life
- You Connect with Real People
- Increased Motivation
- Increased Focus and Concentration
- Increased Energy
- No Brain Fog
- Increased Stamina
- No Depression
- Reduced Stress and Pressure
- Deeper Feelings
- Less Sleep More Rest
- No Rage and Angry Outbursts
- Mental Strength
All these NoFap Benefits are intertwined. Before we talk about these benefits in detail. Let’s talk about PMO first.
What is PMO? And Why is it Harmful?
P: Porn
M: Masturbation
O: Orgasm
These are the three stages of fapping. First, you watch Porn. Second, you Masturbate and Third, you achieve Orgasm. It is fun and can give you absolute pleasure but the side effects of PMO will open your eyes.
Ever heard of a NeuroTransmitter called “Dopamine”. We’ll talk a lot about Dopamine, a lot in this article. In case you don’t know about Dopamine, it is a fun chemical or neurotransmitter which can make you feel excited. This chemical can be stimulated either naturally or unnaturally.
When I say naturally, I mean Sex. When I say Unnaturally, I mean fapping by watching porn. Either way, it can make you feel really good. Drugs like Heroine and Cocaine have the same effect on our brains as watching porn.
Sure it is fun when you start but once you get addicted, that’s when the real problem begins.
To help you get rid of PMO, I am going to add some Benefits of NoFap which will motivate you to stop fapping and stop watching porn.
Benefits of NoFap
The benefits you get from Nofap will blow your mind. You will see yourself change every day. Bear in Mind, this is not easy. The NoFap challenge is the most difficult challenge you will ever take. Because stopping something which gives you this much amount of pleasure is always hard. But, don’t stop yourself from trying.
Increased Testosterone
This benefit is connected to most of the benefits which are going to come in later.
When you stop masturbating, your testosterone levels will skyrocket. Testosterone is the primary hormone in males. Studies have found that men who stopped masturbating have higher levels of testosterone than men who are in PMO period.
For the first 2 to 3 days you will feel the energy you’ve never felt before. Then the testosterone levels are going to stabilize but at higher levels. As in, the T- hormone levels will remain high. They are not going to fluctuate resulting in high energy levels all the time. Testosterone is the main reason behind strong bones, muscle growth, deeper voice, and a thick beard.
The raised level of T-Hormone means a healthier and better lifestyle.
Improved Confidence
Scientific studies have found out that people who fap or masturbate have low levels of Dopamine.
What is Dopamine?
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in your brain. It helps in seeking out rewards or gives you a natural high when you achieve something. When you watch porn and masturbate the Dopamine levels are shot up to the levels of consuming Heroine. As soon as you ejaculate, your dopamine levels crash pretty hard. In this state, our brain wants to return to Homeostasis and recuperate. Our brain signals a scarcity of Dopamine and how could we achieve a high level of Dopamine again? Yes, by watching porn and masturbating. After the second time our dopamine levels crash even harder.
When your brain realizes the sudden fluctuation of Dopamine levels, it reduces the number of Dopamine receptors. Thus, lowering our Dopamine levels.
What does this even mean?
Scientific studies have shown that low Dopamine levels in person can cause the following things:
- Attention deficits
- Low energy levels
- Confusion
- Brain Fog
- Depression
- Fatigue
- Lack of Motivation
If you stop masturbating after watching porn for a long time, our brains are rewired and the Dopamine levels return to normal. Thus destroying all the above side effects of Low Dopamine and improve your Confidence drastically.
When I took the NoFap challenge, after 60 days my confidence was high up. I’ve personally felt this benefit of NoFap.
Destroys Social Anxiety
If you ask me again and again. My answer will be the same.
Dopamine.
It can wreak havoc on your brain if the levels are unstable. When you fap to porn, Dopamine levels suddenly go high and once you achieve an orgasm, the levels go really low.
What happens then?
A hormone called Prolactin goes through the roof. The relationship between Prolactin and Dopamine is an inverse one. High levels of Prolactin can make you slow and demotivated. In short, it makes you feel content with life. It has shown to increase Social Anxiety in people.
On top of that, low Dopamine levels cause low testosterone levels. And low Testosterone levels cause:
- Low Libido
- Low Sex Drive
- Hair Loss
- Harder to Gain Muscle
- Low Energy, and Low testosterone causes
- Social Anxiety
To summarize the whole thing up, Low Dopamine causes Social Anxiety. Low Dopamine causes high Prolactin which causes Social Anxiety. Low Dopamine causes Low Testosterone levels which cause, yes you guessed it – Social Anxiety.
If you stop watching porn and fapping then you can see the benefits of NoFap Challenge. It will destroy your Social Anxiety.
Better Social Life
When you have a lot of Confidence and no Social Anxiety, What do you do?
You smile more, you talk to people more. In short, you ooze positivity.
People love to chat with a guy or a girl who is confident, can hold a great conversation and who makes them laugh more.
The other aspect is, when you have more confidence then you would want to talk to people. If there is a girl you like, you will take an initiative and you will go talk to her.
People will love to hang out with you. They will call you to parties and thus you will have a better social life. This benefit of NoFap is often overlooked because people think that it is normal to masturbate to porn. It has been normalized too much in our society.
Take advantage of the NoFap challenge, make more friends and have a better social life.
You Connect with Real People
The porn world is fake. Even the orgasms they achieve are fake.
When you watch a lot of porn, you start living in a fantasy world and slowly you stop talking to real people. Your Social Life is almost non-existent.
Social Anxiety plays an important role in the lack of connection with real people. When you can achieve a high level of pleasure by watching porn and fapping, why would you make an effort and talk to real people?
When you quit PMO, your social anxiety is gone and your confidence is up. Later, the desire to socialize becomes so high that you drag yourself to talk to people and you connect with real people.
Increased Motivation
A lot of YouTubers claim that NoFap has increased their motivation.
How?
When you stop masturbating to porn, your testosterone levels increase. You will have a lot of energy in your body.
With all the energy accumulated in your body, you will want to do something productive. Be it exercise, reading books, working on your business. This is all you would want to do.
When you start doing something productive, you will start to get some results. For example, you started working out. Now you can see your chest and your biceps growing. It will give more than enough motivation to workout even more and get a better physique.
The other example is, when a beautiful girl is flirting with you, you will be motivated to flirt back. In your masturbating days, you wouldn’t be able to even maintain eye contact with a girl. Thus, the Dopamine levels you get whether from working out or flirting with a girl is all natural.
Increased Focus and Concentration
The NoFap superpowers that a lot NoFap YouTubers talk about are their Focus and the Concentration has increased dramatically.
It’s like rebooting a computer.
Our Brains are not made for Modern Porn. When you stop watching porn then your brain reboots. The Dopamine levels are brought back to normal. This will give you a clearer mind and a clearer mind gives you greater Focus and Concentration.
Whenever you do any work, read something or listen to a lecture, your concentration will be off the charts. You will listen to each and every word, process them and understand them better than before. Holding up a conversation will be easier. You will be surprised by such advantages of NoFap.
Increased Energy
If you try to tell your friends that – When you masturbate to porn, your body loses very important nutrients and the brain is screwed up too!
There reply will be – “It’s normal to watch porn and fap. It is scientifically proven that fapping is good for health”
Don’t listen to them. New studies have found out that excessive porn and masturbation is bad for you. You lose nutrients like Zinc, Potassium, Calcium and many more!!
This will leave you fatigued and with lack of motivation to move. Your drive to live will become low and you will roam around depressed.
One of the Physical Benefits of NoFap is that your body retains all the nutrients and you will feel a sudden surge of energy in your body.
There is also a thing called ‘Sexual Frustration‘. People who watch porn and masturbate are frustrated that they can achieve orgasm themselves but they can’t get an actual one with a partner. You will be surprised that quitting fapping can give you an amount of energy, you would not believe.
No Brain Fog
Have you noticed that when you fap regularly, you tend to forget things!! This is called Brain Fog or Brain Clutter. The Dopamine levels work here as well.
Low Dopamine levels indicate that you will have a hard time remembering things. Dopamine is a good hormone but too much of it will cover your mind by fake fog created by fake pleasures.
However, when you stop fapping to porn, you will notice that your brain fog will reduce. As in, you will remember things clearly. People who have stopped fapping for years can remember things crystal clearly from there childhood.
You will even see things clearly. You will start noticing colors, smells and start appreciating small things in life.
This is just the beginning. The NoFap Benefits list is quite long. Continue reading, it will change your life.
Increased Stamina
When you have a lot of energy, what does that mean?
You can run longer, lift heavier, and perform training feats that you only could think of.
My advice, join a gym and use the energy to build yourself. When you fap, your whole body is relaxed and you want to take a nap. That’s why most of the people who masturbate, do it at night.
One of the Physical benefits of Nofap challenge is that you will also last longer in bed during actual sex.
No Depression
The Dopamine levels work in mysteries ways.
Your brain will react to high levels of Dopamine by reducing the Dopamine receptors. The dopamine levels are high when you watch porn. When you don’t watch porn your dopamine levels are low and that will make you depressed. Your brain will ask for more Dopamine to stabilize your mood and where can you get Dopamine from?
Porn.
This is a vicious cycle. Watching more and more porn will leave you more and more depressed.
Your brain will need some rewiring to improve your mood permanently. One of the NoFap benefits is that you will notice a steady mood. When you stop fapping to porn, your depression will be almost gone after the second week. After that, your mood swings will slowly stop and a steady and a good mood will take its place.
If you want to rewire your brain then it will take around 90 days. You have to stop watching porn for 90 days. Don’t worry, you can do this.
Reduced Stress and Pressure
When your mood is stable, you tend to stress less and anxiety will be a less known factor to you.
Again, the instability in Dopamine levels will cause you to stress more. When you stop watching porn, after around 90 days your brain will be refreshed and the negative effects of fapping will fade away and the long-term benefits of NoFap will start to surface.
Deeper Feelings
This benefit of NoFap can be related to Brain Fog.
With all the crap out of your way, you will start to see and feel things that you have never felt before. When you listen to music, you will understand and feel each and every lyric of the song.
When someone speaks to you, you will hear each and every word, process it in your brain and give the best reply to them. The conversation will be on another level. The understanding of deeper and hard concepts will become easy and the logical thinking part of your brain will start functioning healthily.
Even Eye-Contact. When your social anxiety is gone and your confidence is up, you will maintain healthy eye-contact and not look away every two seconds when you are talking to someone. These are some of the Mental benefits of NoFap.
Less Sleep More Rest
This physical benefit of NoFap has been personally seen and felt by me. As you have more energy and you get tired less. You can sleep fewer hours and still feel completely rested.
When you wake up in the morning, you will feel fresh and sometimes you won’t even need coffee. You can wake up early and start working out. This will not only make you feel more energised but will make you stronger and muscular over time.
One more reason behind less sleep, more rest is that your sleep will be deeper and dreams you have will be clear which is very important for the brain. Deep sleepers tend to have a wake up happier because in few hours they get necessary rest.
One of the NoFap Superpowers is – you need less sleep for more rest.
No Rage and Angry Outbursts
One of the mental Benefits of NoFap is that your rage and anger will drastically reduce. I know what you are thinking, high testosterone means high aggression.
That’s where you are wrong. In this case, the low testosterone levels will cause mood swings and cause you to lash out in front of your friends and family. When you quit fapping, your testosterone levels get normal and your mood stays steady for a long time.
You also get a clear mind which allows you to see things from a different perspective. One of the benefits of NoFap is that you will get less angry and you will be happier than usual.
Mental Strength
One of the benefits of NoFap is that it makes you mentally strong. If you can suppress your urges and control your mind then you have achieved that most people only think of in their dreams. Why it gives you mental strength? Because suppressing sexual urges is one of the toughest things that you can do. We are bombarded with sexual images of women with perfect bodies all day, every day.
It leaves an imprint on your mind. You will be thinking about that girl you saw on Instagram, all day. That leads you to see more pictures of her. Then you will look at another girl then another. It goes on and on. Then your concentration shifts to Porn. Then you do PMO and it never stops.
Once you take this challenge then you say no to these things. Believe it is not easy to say no to these things. many people have tried this and failed in the past, myself included. Saying ‘NO’ to these urges will make you mentally strong. If you go without fapping for a week then you get confidence that you can do it. A month later you are amazingly strong, both mentally and physically.
Over To You
These were some mind-blowing benefits of NoFap. I’ve personally been in this hole where you think that you will never break free from this addiction.
All you have to do is stop watching porn. I know it easier said then done but I’ve done it. So can You.
The physical benefits of NoFap are surreal and you will feel a drive in your life that you’ve never felt before. You would want to do things which can better your life. Your confidence, motivation level will be off the roof.
Everyone will feel your presence when you walk into a room. If you want to feel these NoFap Superpowers, all you have to do is stop watching porn.
There are more benefits of Nofap which I’ll cover in the next blog post.
Remember, You deserve to be free.
Thanks for the article. It motivates to go on.
Thanks Luke,
We wish to motivate you in the future too.
Whilst i agree with most of the science and benefits particularly concerning dopamine and said receptors, i would love to see you site some sources for some of the things you wrote like;
-Low testosterone causes hairloss (when the opposite has been proven more true – and dihydratestosterone being the likely culprit.)
-Reduced or eliminated masturbation leads to longer endurance during intercourse, something which im sure to most people sounds wrong straight off the bat. The fact is, the natural way is to mate not masturbate (unintendedly catchy!) and the natural way is to be over and done in seconds. The enhanced sensitivity in both the dopamin receptors and penis nerve endings should surely see to it that everything is done and metaphorically dusted with a speedy conclusion. As you said as much with your helpful article, though, a small price to pay for all the benefits. The natural way is the best way. God, or for the ghastly atheists – evolution, knows what to do.
This article is worth a read and helpful. I’m on Day 1 without pmo. Wish me luck!
Bruh! I pray to God for your success.
I m also on day1
Great article, despite being aware of all the benifits, it’s always a good idea to go through them when you feel down, am 40 days hard mode, it’s hard, sometimes confusing, mood is all over the place, yet i know that am doing a great thing. I’ve been abstaining from sex and masturbation last year for nearly two months, while i meditated excessively and i totally isolated myself, and i kid you not, was the hardest shit ever, i was constantly in pain (suppressed emotions getting back). But one morning i woke up with the most powerful feeling ever, I felt bliss, oneness, power, i felt people while passing by, felt tree, just like am going through an electromagnetic field and am a magnet myself, it was magical and scary….
Then i relapsed for many reasons… one of which i didn’t understood what happened to me, so i thought am having a mental breakdown…
Anyway am on it again, no more relapsing, now i know what am dealing with.
Hey Rafik, Great to know that you are making progress. The benefits that you mentioned are mind-blowing and we can absolutely relate to them. Keep it up, brother.
Very right bro absolutely true article I like it
very good article. i m on day 14 and i can already feel the difference, i agree on the eye contact thing,i m already getting that without blinking an eye while talking to my friends in college. even some girls who made fun of me and hate me in the past are now taking an interest in me and started talking with me.
Very nice article I like it.
Thanks for the article! Just had a relapse and decided to work on it, the motivation you gave me will make me go further than I’ve ever been!
Is mutual masturbation with my GF problem in NoFap challenge?
I think that you better do it with wife, but if you think she will be 100% than it’s ok. Just a random opinion but think about it.
The article is helpfull , I can connect with each fact and each thing said in article , iam also suffering from pmo problem and it’s ruining my life , it’s the biggest fight you’ve ever fought , I don’t know when iam going to be able from pmo shitt but anyways thanks man for the article
Thank you very much! this is really helpful and inspiring
I’m relapsed. I’m on day1.my advice is never peaking
Thank you for the amazing articles. I got rid of PMO once before, but later, some problems happen that made me stressed this summer. Then a landmine appeared suddenly. Yes, the damn NSFW AI Generator, and made me lost again. But I make my hard to fight back and I’m gonna win once and for all.