Every patient who visits a male clinic is asked: do you currently have morning erections, nocturnal erections (hereinafter generalized as morning erections)? This is a concern for every mature male! Why do you have morning erections? What are the factors affecting them? What does it mean if you have an erection or not? What is a morning erection? A morning erection is a natural, unconscious erection of the penis that occurs early in the morning and is not controlled by situations, actions or thoughts. It simply means that you wake up in the morning with an erection! Why do you get morning erections? It is thought that deep sleep is the peak time for testosterone production and secretion of androgens (testosterone), and that morning erections are the result of elevated levels of androgens in the blood. (Get a good night’s sleep! Short sleep and lack of deep sleep can lower testosterone levels. Sleeping less than six hours a day and sleep apnea can cause low testosterone.) It is also believed that morning erections are related to nitric oxide in the body. During sleep, the brain relaxes its control over the body’s hormones and functions, and nitric oxide becomes active. It conveys instructions to the body’s management center to relax the muscles and relax the blood vessels, so that blood flow can be smoothed out, and when the nerve cells release nitric oxide to the perineum, the local blood flow will be increased, resulting in a spontaneous erection of the penis. It is also believed that morning erections are the result of active plant nerve function and the body’s own maintenance and repair functions. It is also possible that your urine-filled bladder, which presses on nearby organs and nerves, causes a subconscious reflex erection to occur in the penis. What factors affect morning erections? 1, the age factor: under normal circumstances, age will affect the morning erection, the younger the morning erection the more frequent, the longer the duration of the morning erection, with the age of the morning erection also gradually weakened or decline. Generally, young men have 7-8 erections per night. In a healthy and normal older person, the number of erections is about 2-3 times per night. 2.Insufficient rest: The disappearance of morning erections may be due to overwork, poor sleep will make morning erections affected, so men should pay attention to maintain a good sleep. 3, mental factors: mental factors serious mental trauma, grief and anger, depression, etc. can make the morning erection significantly reduced; excessive fatigue, mental exhaustion, will also affect the morning erection. 4, disease factors: morning erection disappearance may be due to some diseases, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, lumbar disc herniation (very common Oh!) , leukemia, tuberculosis, malignant tumors, crest injury and so on. 5, drug factors: anti-tumor drugs, anti-hypertensive drugs, hypoglycemic drugs, antacid drugs, sedative drugs, etc., can make the frequency of morning erections reduced. 6, bad habits: long-term addiction to tobacco and alcohol, life is not regular, long-term excessive frequency of masturbation, stay up late and other bad habits may lead to men’s morning erections reduce or disappear. What does it mean to have or not to have morning erections? “Doctor, I can’t!” “What’s wrong? You have a girlfriend now? Having sex?” “Not yet, but I recently realized that I don’t have morning erections anymore!” This type of man is always worried that he has impotence, and with excessive anxiety as well as too much focus on his morning erections he will find that the fewer erections he has, the fewer he will have. This is a terrible vicious circle, because psychological uneasiness will lead to physical dysfunction; and physical ailments induce further psychological uneasiness, and so on and so forth, and the situation will get worse and worse. If there is nothing wrong with the frequency of sexual intercourse and the hardness of the penis erection during intercourse, only to find that there is no more morning erection, you should not worry even more. It is possible that your penis has a normal morning erection early in the morning and you just don’t notice it. It could also be a sneaky erection at night! If you don’t have sex, here’s the stamp test to test your erection: before going to bed, wrap four or five stamps around the base of your penis in a circle. If there is a normal nocturnal erection, early the next morning, the connecting part of the stamps will be held together. It is meaningless if the overlapping part is not firmly glued and comes off. If a person who is sexually active feels that the hardness of erection and the duration of erection are significantly reduced, and there is no morning erection for a longer period of time (2-3 months), it is recommended to consult a doctor promptly.