According to a study, exercise seems to be a potentially beneficial premature ejaculation treatment. For the study, researchers reviewed 54 studies previously published in the last 49 years, involving 3,485 individuals from around the world.1✅ JOURNAL REFERENCE
DOI: 10.1002/tre.903
Premature ejaculation is believed to impact somewhere between 30% to 83% of men, with this wide range of incidence as a result of the lack of a commonly accepted definition, which makes study design challenging.
There are a small number of medications for treating the condition. The approved medication for usage outside of the US is dapoxetine, and other regularly made use of options include tramadol, clomipramine, and local anesthetics. Many of these treatments have side effects so the researchers looked at non-pharmacological treatments and their impact on the increase in the time that it takes to ejaculate, known as latency time.
Many of the studies that made use of physical activity as a treatment had encouraging results, proving just as effective as medications but with none of the related side effects. One of the studies from the review revealed that running for half an hour, 5 times per week had just as much impact on latency time as using dapoxetine.
Another one of the studies from the research indicated that latency time was increased from an average of 1 minute to 3 minutes by performing pelvic floor exercises.
Strategies making use of various types of psychotherapy were also examined, and generally positive results were seen in increasing latency time.
It’s known that premature ejaculation is a prevalent problem in men around the world. Lacking a clear definition of what premature ejaculation is or isn’t has consequences with regard to treatment, with relatively few effective medications available.
The research is an in-depth review of studies into non-pharmacological treatments for this prevalent problem, and there are apparent indications in several studies that physical exercise, such as engaging the pelvic floor muscles and running, shows promise.
Considering that medications typically have side effects, it would appear that the best treatment for preventing premature ejaculation could very well be exercise, and this possibility necessitates additional research.
