For Science minded PE'ers

I like your question and I will answer it the best I can, but I am not an expert, just trial and error on my part. First of all, I hate OTS and upper angles with a passion, the reason is they limit movement and/or cause too much stress on my shoulder. I’m a jittery kind of fellow that didn’t mind walking around the room or house with weights dangling off my cock, I simply couldn’t set still.

There is, of course, benefit in hanging upper angles, but I do have the belief that when the ligs are elongated to the max, more and more stress is taken up by the inner tunica. This worked for me and extended my time hanging by not driving me cuckoo, you have to somewhat enjoy what you are doing.

I hope this helps a little.

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Shiver,

Yes, most definitely!

All of my hanging of late has been SO with a fulcrum…and that is when I started to make any real gains hanging. I did make some small gains hanging SD, but even though I hung to fatigue the time hanging/reward ratio was very poor for me. Far better once I switched to hanging SO.

I was thinking that I read somewhere that the ratio of collagen to elastin was important…specifically that too much collagen was a reason for ED as men get older. Would too much collagen prevent the normal (and as we age…sub-normal) blood pressure from fully expanding the CC?

Without elastin, the smooth muscles in your CC’s may not be able to relax as effectively. As it turns out, it’s the relaxation, rather than flexing, of these muscles that gives you a hard on.

I’m not that knowledgeable yet about the functioning of the muscles. Maybe WestLA will give you a better answer.

Shiver,

This sounds terrible, but I don’t believe this is what happens when you PE. I think this type of problem is more what happens with carpal tunnel syndrome or other repetitive motion disorders, where you keep punishing the tendons and they keep swelling, without getting what they need to heal.

It does serve as kind of a warning to PE’ers, however, not to work out to the point of continuous inflammation. Problem is, I’m not sure what “continuous inflammation” means. I think it’s more than just soreness. This is also a good reason to include NSAIDs in your PE toolkit.

Do you feel NSAIDs would hinder healing though? Inflammation is after all part of a healthy response so long as it doesn’t become a cyclical self reinforcing issue.

I mentioned in another thread that verapamil might be something to consider. There are studies showing some impressive results with it for peyronies in topical form (contrasting sharply results using it by injection). I have other experiments to try our first, but I may tinker with making a topical verapamil gel at some point. I think you could home brew a years supply for around $80-90.

Shiver,

Considering how liberally MD’s prescribe massive doses of NSAIDS following surgery, I doubt they do much to inhibit healing.

I sometimes think the human body overdoes its inflammatory responses. A little inflammation is necessary and good; a lot can be damaging. NSAIDS allow you to control the response, to some extent.

The TL_Extract says that new collagen isn’t laid down until after the inflammatory phase. So, I think the real problem with inflammation (i.e., in promoting fibrosis) is only when it becomes chronic.

“Inflammation manifests as swelling, heat, redness, and pain. The
acute inflammatory phase lasts from three to seven days after injury.
Following this acute phase the result is either tissue repair or adhesion
and scarring (see upcoming section on remodeling process).”

The paper goes on to say that adhesions and scarring occur when inflammation becomes chronic. Otherwise, normal tissue repair and remodeling occur.

I just came across this interesting article, which discusses the role of NSAIDS in muscle building. I believe the information here is readily transferrable to PE, especially because the article focuses on connective tissue:

Here’s an excerpt:

While non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin may exert a ‘braking’ effect on inflammation and pain, keep in mind that inflammation is a necessary part of the repair phase following a connective tissue injury. Some forms of mild pain can be a good thing, such as second-day muscle soreness from a hard workout.

A few studies have recently demonstrated that NSAIDs may inhibit protein synthesis in exercised muscle. However, this does not necessarily mean that these drugs will inhibit muscle growth following your workouts.

Dr. Claude Cote, one of the leading researchers on the matter of NSAIDs and inflammation told me that his view is that NSAIDs, that are strong enough to really inhibit inflammatory cell infiltration and activity, can also repress cellular and molecular mechanisms necessary for repair after damage. And, this is part of a hypertrophy response from training. However, he says, NSAIDs theoretically inhibiting muscle growth would only be in a case where these drugs are taken in higher doses for long periods. He suspects aspirin would not do it because it works with a different mechanism of action from a classic NSAID. He suggests that the theory would require highly controlled experimental protocols with human subjects.

Good find Modesto! I guess mild doses where inflamation is a problem should not be too much of an issue then. I’ve never had a case of inflamation was bad enough to require them though, so cannot speak from experience.

Shiver,

I posted this thread earlier today and it quickly sank to the bottom. I think you’d be interested, though.

Stretching Fascia—Another BB analogy

As a reply on the very first post of Shiver in this topic,
You are partially right for as far as I consider. However, taking plants as an example, they have something called Cell Turgor (not sure on the translation of it, should be right),
So considering that fact, all this stressing we do to increase the vein’s diameter should induce way more injuries then (from what I’ve read here) there are.

Just my quick 0.02€

Almost 14 years old, but still an interesting read. I now have some L-Carnosine and DMSO on the way. I’m putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into manual exercises, so anything that can potentiate these exercises is worth a shot.

Cross-post from DMSO + Iodine Experimental Treatment for Deflated Glans and Firm Flaccid (p. 49) since this is relevant here as well.

Update: I’m scrapping L-carnosine. It reduces HIF-1α (hypoxia inducing factors), which in theory could inhibit angiogenesis (the creation of new blood vessels).

Effect of L-carnosine on HIF-1α:

The Anti-Proliferative Effect of L-Carnosine Correlates with a Decreased Expression of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 alpha in Human Colon Cancer Cells - PMC

The reason this may not be desirable:

DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor or researcher. I work in IT. The half baked experiments I do on myself hardly count as research. I’m doing my best to interpret relevant studies and various other sources of information, but I do not have a solid background in chemistry, biology, or medicine. Take anything I say here with a large grain of salt. Feel free to correct or contradict me. Do your own research.