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Question from Los Angeles, California, USA:

First off, I’m male, 15 years old, diagnosed with type 1 six weeks ago. How will masturbation affect my blood sugar?

Answer:

From: DTeam Staff

Masturbation doesn’t do much of anything to blood sugars. Almost everybody does it and almost nobody talks about it. There might be a short adrenalin surge/release at the point of orgasm and this could, theoretically, temporarily raise the blood glucose levels but not long enough to worry about it.

SB