Masturbation makes the body immune, can it prevent infection with the Dong virus?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Myths about masturbating widely circulated. One of them masturbation can affect the immune system. If so, can masturbation prevent infection with the virus?

Several studies have shown that masturbation can provide a variety of health benefits. Including removing stress, improves mood, and relieves pain, including relieving menstrual cramps.

How about masturbation increase or decrease immunity?

Medical News Today writes that scientific evidence regarding the impact of masturbation on the immune system is scanty and sparse. In addition, existing research is influenced by gender data gaps, so there is virtually no information on the alleged effects, as far as the female body is concerned.

A study from 2004 published in the journal Neuroimmunomodulation Trusted Source found that masturbation increased the activity of several components of the immune system, namely leukocytes, and in particular natural killer cells, which fight cancer tumor cells and virus-infected cells.

Many media outlets cite years of research to support the idea that masturbation can help boost the body’s immune response. However, health experts warn that the findings must be on a large scale.

“FirstHowever, a sample of 11 individuals does not sufficiently prove that masturbation is beneficial for immune function,” said Dr Jagdish Khubchandani, Professor of Public Health at New Mexico State University. Medical News Today quoted Monday, August 9, 2021.

“Second, there are no repeated trials on these people,” he added.

Third, volunteers are in good health, which may lead to bias and under-generalization. Fourth, it is not easy to determine whether masturbation affects immune.

While the authors of the original study followed up that the study did not include the original participants, it also did not specifically focus on masturbation.

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