never been taught about the clitoris, about the vulva, about sexual health, about sexual pain, about libido, arousal , and orgasm. And so, the ones who have taken it on their themselves to get extra training, they're very few andfar between. And so, every day women, and men too, are going to a doctor
That's based on a 1907 study of Japanese dancing mice, where they looked at arousal . Arousal is not anxiety.Arousal is-- if you're asleep, you're not going to perform well.
Arousal is not anxiety.Arousal is-- if you're asleep, you're not going to perform well.If you're totally freaked out, you're not going to perform well.
that's a category of speech that has no First Amendment protection at all. In order to be obscene, it has to appeal predominantly to the prurient interest-- the interest in sexual arousal . Secondly, it has to be patently offensive in its depiction of sexual or excretory acts.And third, it has to lack serious political, scientific, literary, or artistic value. All
obstruction of the airway causes um either a blood oxygen level drop or a brain arousal um the other thing that happens is that when you fall asleep and you uh sleep on your back your tongue alsofalls backwards because of gravity and that blocks up the airway as
Now there is also data in perimenopausal women as well and that is clear data. It helps with libido, but it also helps with arousal , it helps with orgasm, and satisfaction. It can also help with body image, which is like a cool a really cool thing. In my clinic, I use FDA approved testosterone for men, and I give it to them in doses appropriate like 1/10 the dose for a man, I give it
And just one other little-- well, one strategy that we can use to avert fear and lean into uncertainty, to harness this arousal , which is so helpful in moments of challenge, is something called-- to dial back on something called outcome fixation. So in a nutshell, we are in a challenge, like giving a public presentation.
You're not overly tired, you're not over stimulated, you're not anxious, your heart rate is what feels best to you, and optimal level of arousal is different for everyone. Under arousal , we know from the research, is not good. It can be boredom or isolation.
If you're totally freaked out, you're not going to perform well. So arousal in Japanese dancing mice makes sense for an inverted u-shaped curve, not so much for humans. In fact, there's an inverse relationship.
Is that where the Yerkes-Dodson curve has value? So arousal , certainly. If you're falling asleep, not going to perform well. Yeah. This is not a sign of good performance, the nodding.
Yeah. This is not a sign of good performance, the nodding. So arousal is certainly helpful. And if you look at some level-- it's interesting if you look at flow, for example.
And optimal level of arousal is different for everyone. Under arousal , we know from the research, is not good. It can be boredom or isolation.
And so I'm just going to this slide to show you it's the idea of securing your own oxygen mask before you secure others. our arousal level comes down and the baby finds out oh, that's how you calm down.
50 things to do before 10:00 a.m. what part of the brain or the system am I in when I'm giving you that advice I'm in sympathetic arousal I'm giving you you lists I'm giving you goal oriented behavior I'm giving you highly directed tasks so what ends up happening if we stay too much in that and we don't
question that mindset is that even the practices we're doing to kind of take care of ourselves are done with sympathetic arousal does that make sense you know it's like you're kind of cranking on yoga and it's just like 12 poses done for 2 and a half minutes each you know do you think that that's how it was
people so ideologies can do it another great barrier is Authority which is that empathic / arousal which sounds a bit rude doesn't it but it's it's where you can get overloaded by empathy right my
rub it in like you would rub sunscreen on your face. And if you do that twice a week, it makes sex not painful and dry. It helps with arousal and orgasm. It's literally better than Viagra. And it's cheap. And I'm telling you all this as a urologist that this cream can also help prevent death from urinary tract infections. But more than 75% of people
biologic factors, but the data is really robust on older guys. So above the age level of arousal that you're getting from porn. If you're watching like let's say the same kind of porn every time, you're masturbating the same way every
So eustress being a healthy, positive stress, distress being a negative stress? So some level of arousal is needed to be able to attend-- if you're so disengaged that you're at the point of feeling bored that you're not going to perform as well?
And that's one of the things that we are, in my dance party, we experience. We're having physiological arousal for those of us that are joining us. Some folks are just working, while others are dancing, so all are welcome.
One was a situation where sexism wasn't possible where it was between two women. Just as stress arousal is a survival brain job, the threat appraisal process that's going on unconsciously, recovery is also a survival brain job.
You're not overly tired, you're not overstimulated, you're not anxious, your heart rate is what feels best to you. And optimal level of arousal is different for everyone. Under arousal , we know from the research, is not good.
And so I'm just going to this slide to show you it's the idea of securing your own oxygen mask before you secure others. the a baby's arousal system-- neurobiological system, brain, body, is able to do that for themselves when they get distressed, anxious, upset.
sweaty people's palms are getting, which is a good ,, sorry a good proxy variable for how emotional something is, how much emotional arousal there is. We also know, thanks to follow-up studies, that it doesn't matter how much you swear in everyday life.
You have less control, not more control. Less prefrontal arousal a defocusing, not a focusing on the task at hand, a defocusing away from the problem. The hub structures that keep the brain all nicely regulated, if you like, start to disintegrate, which again, recent research from Imperial, the same thing happens
in but what we want as humans is to be able to go through a period of intensity and sympathetic arousal and then completely deactivate that so that we're shifting gears kind of out of the cognitive and back into the sematic and the sensor so that there's not that sense that you
your physiological arousal level just a bit-- will actually make you a better driver, because it's functioning as a stimulant.
um there's arousal it occupies working memory and once you start thinking about it
attention they stimulate arousal they trigger the emotion and read it repeat exposure to highly palatable Foods in
It's the arousals that actually cause the inflammation what we're finding.
So your arousals can come from your own snoring or sleep apnea or they can come from your bed partner's snoring and sleep
going to see is um basically you're going to see snoring um some air flow limitation and just brain arousals and that's what the physician is going to see on a sleep study these findings are actually very subtle on a sleep study compared to a typical severe sleep apnea patient and what we're looking for is
And because of that, they can become more easily overstimulated, which is the O. Now everyone has an optimal level of arousal . That's when you're just your best self.
Mutual eye gaze starts the arousal system.
Some folks are just working, while others are dancing, so all are welcome. And so there's a physiological arousal . And then also, I've incorporated Kelly Mcgonigal's work of her five joy moves, data-driven joy moves.
It can really shut you down. But I should say over arousal is the struggle for most highly sensitive people. And really, it's the only negative aspect of being highly sensitive is that feeling of being overstimulated.
But actually, it's OK, you adults. And they're in optimal level of arousal and they think, oh, that's just you.
and if that experience of arousal is not regulated, either from a bottom up perspective, that is, the perspective of a kind of natural regulation
And so I'm just going to this slide to show you it's the idea of securing your own oxygen mask before you secure others. So really paying attention to our own arousal levels and trying to calm ourselves down in order to be able to calm them down is very important.
And the periaqueductal gray stimulates your arousal mechanisms, so it's what gets you ramped up, and in this case, aggressive.
And the periaqueductal gray stimulates your arousal mechanisms.
stimuli simultaneously or in quick succession before arousal is triggered.
; the male sexual brain psychological and physical arousal are linked; they're detached in the female sexual brain harder to get them, takes more work to get them to come together
actually very subtle on a sleep study compared to a typical severe sleep apnea patient and what we're looking for is what we called a respiratory effort related arousal um during a sleep study and um this is actually detected by a very special monitor is called the esophageal pressure transducer the reason why I want to mention is because
have had a visible movement from sympathetic arousal , that's the "fight or flight" system, to parasympathetic arousal .
stimuli, right? You need to think about something, see something, smell something, feel something, right? You need to just be together and and sort of allow yourselves to be intimate before that sort of desire and arousal come together. And for me as well, it's not just touch like that doesn't necessarily for me, it really is quite like a psychological
biologic factors, but the data is really robust on older guys. So above the age will be difficult to reach the level of arousal that you need to get an erection.
think globally there does seem to be more more physiological arousal , more kind of
And then also-- I totally lost my train of thought there. So What's way in my mind right now is physiological arousal because you talk about that as an important element as far as the examples of the military and the different things of being together.
And for about six months, that was the dominant. to be physical and to get into that state of physical arousal , if that makes some of the connection that you feel possible, rather than just