One of the most common questions I get from patients
is how can I increase my semen volume? Well, I'm doctor Rena
Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and today I'm going to
teach you all about semen. How exactly does your body make it?
What happens when you ejaculate and why would you have a
decreased semen volume? Does it bother your partner and lastly?
what are ways to increase your semen volume? Let's get to it.
So semen is made up of a number of different components. Of
course everyone knows about sperm, which is made in the
testes. so what percent of semen do you think is actually
made up of sperm? Pause right now comment below. and let me
know what your guess is it's actually 5%. so only 5% of your
entire semen volume is sperm. A lot of people might actually
think you know if their semen volume is less than someone
else's that maybe they're sperm are not working as well if
they're not as fertile as someone else. well. that's.
Absolutely untrue the other components that make up your
sperm include your prostate, which makes prostatic
secretions, which work to kind of nourish and transport or
help make the sperm mobile and that is about twenty to 30% of
the same in volume and then the largest portion is from the
seminal vessel, which is about sixty to 70% and these are
these two little sack like structures that are behind the
prostate and they hold the semen in them and lastly right
before you. Ejaculation, A very small amount comes from these
tiny little glands right next to the urethra or the P tube
called the bulbourethral glands. Also, you may be wondering how
do some people have a more forceful ejaculation while some
people may notice more of a dribble? well, that's because
you have these muscles around the urethra called the
bulbocavernosus muscle. and when you ejaculate this form kind of a
rhythmic contraction, which causes the semen to propel or
force forward, and these muscles can be stronger in some
and we. Or in others, and so that is what differentiates the
force of the semen volume coming out. so now that you
know what's normal and how your body works you may be wondering
why am I going to ruin my relationship If the force of my
ejaculate is weak or the volume is low well in 2018, they did a
study of 240 women, and they asked them bunch of questions
about how they felt about their partner's ejaculate and how
that played into their sexual pleasure and what they found
was that the large majority of women didn't care how much
volume. Or force was behind the ejaculate only 17% of women
said that their orgasm was actually stronger if their
partner's orgasm was also noticeably strong and an even
smaller number 13% felt that maybe they were less attractive
and that's why their partner wasn't having a strong
ejaculation so they actually had some self esteem concerns
because of their partner's ejaculate volume. So overall, I
would say if you're worried about this, don't the large
majority of people are happy, especially if both parties. Are
climax, there's really nothing to complain about so why does
semen volume decrease? Well if you look at men over their
entire age range, you'll find that the men who have the
strongest and most voluminous ejaculate are those in their
30s. and then it continues to decline over age and there's a
number of factors that play into this. It can include the
weakness of their muscles as well as their diet, some
lifestyle factors like smoking and other medical problems that
can play a role as well. Interestingly even day to day.
Your semen volume can vary because of a number of
different things. How hydrated you are potentially how much
stress you're under and what medications you're on. But what
if you notice a sudden drop in your semen volume that doesn't
go away? What do you do? What are some causes of this? well,
you might have an obstruction in the tube that carries the
semen to the urethra for the ejaculation called the
ejaculate toy duct, or you may have a low testosterone. Other
things that can cause us are certain medications, which the
most common of which is. Tassin or flow, and we often prescribe
that to patients who have an enlarged prostate and might
have difficulty emptying their bladder and have urinary
symptoms and this actually causes retrograde ejaculation
and what that is is when you ejaculate instead of moving
forward, it actually goes backwards into the bladder and
then you pee it out later and as this is one of the side
effects of that medication, it can also be a side effect of
diabetes, certain neurologic diseases or spinal. Spinal cord
injuries So if you're experiencing the sudden change
make sure you see a urologist to make sure you are not
suffering from one of these causes now on four ways that
you can increase your semen volume. I'm going to give you
the first three, which may help a little bit and the fourth
way, which I has actually been proven to increase semen
volume. So make sure you stick around to the end number one
quit smoking smoking is a horrible habit. Not only is it
related to lung cancer and causes lung problems. It can
also. Cause bladder cancer and be associated with a erectile
dysfunction. So if you want to keep your strong erections quit
smoking and don't smoke and in theory, the thought is that it
causes some nerve damage that causes decreased production of
the secretions that creates semen volume. So just another
reason to get rid of that nasty habit number two hydrate just
like any other substance. our body makes you need a lot of
hydration and fluid to make sure you're making a large
amount. so make sure you're getting enough fluid. I know.
Good way to check is take a look at your urine If your
urine is like a lemonade light yellow, you're very well
hydrated number three do kegel exercises. So I've talked about
kegel exercises before in my video. Check it out and I've
mentioned that I don't think Kegel exercises are right for
every single person. but if you don't have urinary symptoms,
pelvic pain and erectile dysfunction as a really young
person, These exercises may actually be really helpful for
you and what they do is they actually strengthen those
pelvic floor. Muscles, including the bubble cassis
muscle, which makes the force of the ejaculation stronger, so
you're actually more completely emptying your semen volume. So
while you're not making more, you're just getting more of it
out so nothing gets left behind before I move on to number
four. I will say that there are no FDA approved supplements to
increase your semen volume. so a lot of supplements will say
yes, we'll increase your semen volume. Definitely you'll see
it 100%. but at this time we don't have any good data. That
there is one magic supplement that's going to do that for you
number four on the most surefire way to increase your
semen volume is to ejaculate less frequently. The reason is.
if you have more time between ejaculation, you'll have more
time to fill up the tank. They actually studied this. they
took 27 guys. They collected semen samples from them every
month for 16 months, and they ask them how long they've
waited or been abstinent before ejaculation and collected all
the. Data and they looked at the variations in semen volume
and what they found was that for each day, a person remained
abstinent or waited to ejaculate. They increased their
semen volume by 10%. and if you look at those that waited for 4
days or less, it was actually 12% on each of those days. and
after 4 days it went down to about seven to 8%. So yeah.
absolutely. If you wait a couple days, you will have more
semen volume when you ejaculate. alright, That's it.
Thank you so much for watching today and. And as always
remember to take care of yourself because you're worth
it.