Is anyone else trying to “moneyball” ED with wearables, or am I the only one turning romance into a lab experiment with charts and a headlamp?
I swear my smart ring knows more about my downstairs morale than I do. On nights when my HRV and “readiness” are high, everything’s cooperative. When my sleep score says I’m a biological potato, the launch sequence aborts. Coincidence, or have we all been ignoring the fact that this is partly a recovery/scheduling problem, not just a plumbing issue?
Questions for the data nerds and the romantically persistent:
- Have you noticed a real correlation between HRV/sleep quality and performance, with or without meds?
- Does timing matter? Morning vs evening vs post-nap “prime time” based on your tracker’s recovery score?
- Do higher REM or deep sleep percentages the night before change your response to PDE5 meds (faster onset, fewer side effects, better consistency)?
- Anyone tracking morning erections as a proxy metric against sleep/HRV and seeing a pattern?
- Pre-game rituals that actually move the needle: light warm-up (pelvic floor squeezes), breathwork, nasal breathing/humming for nitric oxide, warm shower vs cold rinse, light carbs vs fasted, small glass of beet juice-what’s real versus superstition?
- Environmental tweaks: room temperature, lighting, mattress firmness (mine is “medium firm,” unlike me), background music tempo-do any of these reliably help or is that placebo with a Spotify playlist?
I’m considering a 4-week n=1 trial:
- Track: HRV, sleep score, alcohol (none), caffeine timing, hydration, stress, exercise intensity, time of day, morning wood, and outcome.
- Rotate low-risk pre-game tweaks one at a time.
- Keep dose of any meds constant for control.
- Try two “high-readiness” nights vs two “low-readiness” nights each week without changing anything else.
If you’ve already done something like this, please spare me from reinventing the spreadsheet. What actually mattered? What was noise? If my watch can tell me when to stand up, it should be able to tell me when to get it up… right?