Re: I am a 15 year old male. Do my symptoms suggest adrenal fatigue?

  Hi Craig,

Unfortunately, self-gratification and p 0 r n are VERY hard on your adrenal glands.  ANYTHING that stimulates adrenaline (epinephrine) can contribute to adrenal fatigue.

In the book “Adrenaline and Stress”, by Dr Archibald Hart, he list “anything that excites you” as a source of stress.

Here are a couple of studies on Pubmed.

Endocrine response to self-gratification-induced orgasm in healthy men following a 3-week sexua| abstinence.
Orgasm increased blood pressure, heart rate, plasma catecholamines and prolactin.

It is clearly increasing activity of the sympathetic side of the nervous system. Anything that does that...will lead to adrenal fatigue if experienced too often.

Specificity of the neuroendocrine response to orgasm during sexua| arousal in men.
sexua| activity induced transient increases of plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels during orgasm with a rapid decline thereafter

And you don’t have to go all the way to orgasm for it to be a problem.  I’ve had set-backs (increased insomnia, anxiety), just from looking at p 0 r n for a few days.  It is extremely stimulating.