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Sex Scientist: Phone Addiction Is Killing Your Sex Life More Than Porn! artwork

Sex Scientist: Phone Addiction Is Killing Your Sex Life More Than Porn!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

April 27, 2026

Is your sex life bad? Dr Rena Malik walks you through every single sex question you're too nervous to ask - from testosterone, porn, and erectile dysfunction, to libido and stress!

Speakers Steven Bartlett, Dr. Rena Malik

TopicsBusinessSociety & Culture

Steven Bartlett (0:00)

A huge number of businesses have spent the last few years adopting AI, and my company, steven.com, is no different. But here's the thing, most companies actually have no idea whether or not it's working for them. Their teams might be using AI, they might be spending money on AI, and their leaders might be telling the board that they are an AI-enabled business, but they'd also likely struggle to explain where in the business AI is helping. The issue is there's no easy way to see whether it's delivering value or working effectively unless you're using our sponsor, Liridin, which runs seamlessly as a browser plugin or desktop agent and shows you exactly how AI is being used across your organization, what it's actually producing, and where the real opportunities in your business are. That way, you're able to make data-backed decisions instead of just guessing all the time. I love anything that kills the guesswork. So if you want to be a company that's informed with your use of AI and accelerate your company's AI transformation, head to liridin.com and book a demo now. That's larridin.com and book a demo now. Is there a way to enlarge the b***h?

Dr. Rena Malik (1:03)

So you can put your penis in this device. They've actually done research on this. So 30 minutes, twice a day. And it does show improvements in length, about two centimetres.

Steven Bartlett (1:12)

Ta-da!

Dr. Rena Malik (1:13)

And that's not all. So they actually had a study on pistachios. There are guys at 100 grams of pistachios every day, and they saw a decrease in erectile dysfunction because if you're not having erections, now you're no longer getting blood flow to your penis and it will shrink over time. And the same goes for women with their clitoris because it's the same type of tissue. But also, when you look at people who have sex once a week, they live 49 percent longer than people who only have sex once a year.

Steven Bartlett (1:37)

Forty-nine percent longer?

Dr. Rena Malik (1:38)

Yeah. And every 100 orgasms men had, they lived like 13 percent longer.

Steven Bartlett (1:45)

Be right back.

SPEAKER_3 (1:47)

Dr. Rena Malik has become the world's most watched urologist.

SPEAKER_4 (1:51)

After sharing everything you need to know about hormones, sexual health, and how to have better sex based on the data.

Dr. Rena Malik (1:57)

So how can you have the best sex possible? So there's four main pillars of sexual health. So pillar one is fuel. So how you nourish your body. And it's a huge part of sexual activity. And then pillar two is strength. When people think about strength, they always think about going to the gym and lifting weights. It's much more than that. So when you look at the data, any sort of cardiovascular exercise is going to improve sexual function. It's going to improve blood flow to the penis and to the clitoris. And then also if you do 150 minutes a week, it is the same amount of improvement as you would see when you take a medication like Viagra. And the other part of it is the pelvic floor. It's under evaluated, under discussed, and we'll get into that. But pillar three is environment. So things like stress, sleep, and endocrine disrupting chemicals. For example, they looked at data on men sleeping five hours a night versus eight hours a night. Guys who sleep five hours a night, their testosterone drops by 15%.

And then the last of the four pillars that we don't talk about enough is, and that's so important.

Steven Bartlett (2:55)

Rena, I want to talk about morning erections, squirting, clitoral stimulation, and certain positions that are going to increase the probability that my partner has an orgasm.

Dr. Rena Malik (3:04)

Let's talk about all of that. First of all.

Steven Bartlett (3:09)

Guys, I've got a favor to ask before this episode begins. The algorithm, if you follow a show, will deliver you the best episodes from that show very prominently in your feed. So when we have our best episodes on this show, the most shared episodes, the most rated episodes, I would love you to know. And the simple way for you to know that is to hit that follow button. But also, it's the simple, easy, free thing that you can do to help us make this show better. I would be hugely grateful if you could take a minute on the app you're listening to this on right now and hit that follow button. Thank you so, so, so much.

Dr. Rena Malik, if somebody was to come up to you in the street, having watched your videos online, and they were a follower of the content you've produced over the last couple of years, if you had to guess the question they would ask you, because it's probably the most frequent, popular question you get asked, what do you think they would say?

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