9 Habits Killing Your Erections

If you’re suffering with erectile dysfunction or you just want stronger, firmer, bigger erections, then there are nine things that you should stop doing. Some of these things are obvious and some of them might be a bit of a shock to you.

Hey, I’m Phoenix Blake, sex coach and educator and I’ve personally suffered with erectile dysfunction and I know how difficult it can be.

By stopping doing these negative things on the list and doing positive things to help with erections, I’ve been able to go from moderate erectile dysfunction to almost no erectile dysfunction at all.

1. Being Sedentary

Being sedentary can affect your erections in multiple ways but the two main ways are, one, just by sitting down and not moving around, your testicles will be warmer than they should be, which will decrease your sperm production and can also have effects on your testosterone production as well.

But the major reason being sedentary affects your erections is that it decreases your heart health and your overall cardiovascular health. When it comes to getting good erections, strong blood flow is extremely important.

When you get an erection, there is 20 to 40 times more blood in your penis than there usually is. Any reduction in this blood flow is going to seriously impact the strength and the size of your erections.

Studies have been done to show that exercise and even something as simple as walking every day for people who are otherwise sedentary can have drastic improvements in their erections and reduce erectile dysfunction.

2. Smoking

Again, anything that’s going to affect your arteries and your cardiovascular health is going to affect your erections and smoking is obviously very negative in this aspect.

When it comes to vaping, there aren’t any studies that I’m aware of yet to link vaping to erectile dysfunction, but there don’t seem to be any positives either.

3. Trying To Get An Erection

Now, if you’re having trouble getting erections because you have performance anxiety or you have issues with your mind, maybe you’re stressed or you’re anxious or you’re nervous, so your plumbing is actually fine, but your mind is causing the issue, then what you need to stop doing is trying to get an erection.

I know the situation all too well. You’re with a partner, it’s getting hot and heavy and you know you need to get an erection in order to have intercourse, so you start to try and will the erection to come on.

You might clench your pelvic floor muscles, you focus on your penis and you try and will the erection into existence.

This can actually have a negative effect on your erections and that’s because erections come from activation of the parasympathetic nervous system or the rest and digest nervous system. Whereas when you’re actively trying to get an erection, you’re activating your sympathetic nervous system or your fight and flight nervous system.

So rather than trying to will an erection into being, you want to think of this as relaxed arousal. You want to relax your body, you want to relax your mind and allow the erection to come naturally.

Now, this is easier said than done and that’s why in my free ED toolkit, I share some supplements as well as some activities that you can do to more easily calm your mind and get those erections when you need them.

Sign up for my newsletter and get access to that toolkit. In that newsletter, you’re going to learn tips on how to be a better lover and there’s stuff I share in there that I don’t share here.

4. Getting Poor Sleep

If you want to have a good erection the next day, one of the best things you can do for yourself is to get good sleep.

In fact, porn star and sex educator Sterling Cooper suggests drinking four eggs and protein powder and getting a really good night’s sleep so that you can get the best erections possible the next day.

I definitely personally noticed that if I haven’t had good sleep, it’s much harder to get it up and keep it up.

5. Eating A Lot Of Sugar

Spikes in your blood glucose levels are not good for your cardiovascular health and they’re not good for your erections.

Most of us have diets that are way too high in sugar and by cutting down on the amount of sugar that we consume and especially the amount of processed sugar that we consume, we can get healthier, harder erections.

6. Drinking Alcohol And Doing Drugs

Now, when it comes to drinking alcohol, I tend to not really drink much alcohol at all because I want the best health possible. But there are no studies that I’m aware of that say a few drinks per week is going to severely affect your erections.

However, if you’re intoxicated with alcohol or if you’re on drugs, then this is going to affect whether or not you can get an erection.

7. High Fat Foods And Processed Foods

High fat foods and processed foods aren’t good for our overall health and are going to negatively affect your erections.

8. Being Stressed And Anxious

The next one is easier said than done and that’s to avoid being stressed and being anxious.

This is because when we’re stressed and anxious, it activates our sympathetic nervous system or our fight and flight response.

This releases adrenaline into our bloodstream and what happens is when adrenaline is released, your body will send blood to the areas that are most important for getting away from danger like your heart and your lungs and will actually constrict the blood vessels in your penis and take blood flow away from your penis because obviously you don’t need that to be active if you’re running from danger.

This is obviously the opposite of what we want to happen if we want to get those firm erections. So stress and anxiety in the moment when you’re with someone can really affect your erections.

You need to learn to stay calm and daily meditation can help with this. But also, if you’ve got systemic and ongoing stress and anxiety in your life, this can affect your ability to get an erection in the first place.

9. Being Dehydrated

Most of us don’t drink enough water and this may seem like a little thing especially when it comes to erections. But if you drink more water, you have more blood volume and that means it’s going to be easier for your body to pump blood into your penis and you’re going to get better erections.

I personally try to drink two liters of water per day and not only does drinking water help with your erections but it also helps with your mental focus as well which is going to help you achieve more at work and be more focused in life.

Those are some things you should really stop doing to get better erections but now go ahead and read this article on the things that you should be doing and the things that I do daily to get strong, hard erections.