Rena Malik is a urologist, pelvic surgeon, and sexual health educator. Her published research investigates the quality and impact of online and social media communication regarding urological and sexual health topics, including pelvic pain, low libido, and prostate cancer. She has also contributed to clinical research and guidelines concerning female stress urinary incontinence and lower urinary tract therapies.
78 claims checked on air: 13 context 3 contradicted 5 overstated 47 supported 10 unverified
"so, we know that muscle mass decreases about 7% every decade of life after around 40" (said at 0:23:00)
No published record matching the claim that muscle mass decreases by approximately 7% per decade after around age 40 was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"How they affect your sexual function is when you orgasm, these muscles contract and release at a rhythmic contraction of 0.8 seconds." (said at 0:25:28)
No published record matching the claim that pelvic floor muscles contract and release at a rhythmic interval of 0.8 seconds during orgasm was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"So women also have nocturnal clitoral tumescence. Same sort of pattern and they won't necessarily know it, right, because they can't visualize it." (said at 0:35:08)
No published record matching the claim that women experience nocturnal clitoral tumescence following the same sleep-associated pattern as nocturnal erections in men was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"That's like as much testosterone drop as would happen with 10 years of life." (said at 0:43:44)
No published record matching the claim that a 15% reduction in testosterone is equivalent to 10 years of age-related testosterone decline was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"we're seeing them actually even in testicles, in penis tissue samples, like they're in our bodies." (said at 0:47:24)
No published record matching the detection of microplastics in human penile and testicular tissue samples was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"So, there's one study where they looked at I think it was like 50,000 people and they did an intervention where they tried to encourage these people to surround themselves with positive influences that were like have safe sex and avoid negative influences. And they saw that these people had an increase in like sexual positive behavior, so like safe sex practices, by 46%." (said at 0:48:48)
No published record matching a trial or study of approximately 50,000 individuals evaluating a peer social influence intervention that increased safe sex practices by 46% was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"And so absolutely we know that when your testosterone is low, below 214 nanograms per deciliter, that your risk of mortality goes up by two. So you are going to double your risk of dying if you have low testosterone." (said at 1:12:05)
No published record matching the claim that men with total testosterone levels below 214 ng/dL have double the risk of all-cause mortality was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"But there's a 15 times higher risk of having premature heart failure and a 122 times more risk of cardiac death when you're taking anabolic steroids for the purposes of increasing muscle mass and getting really high in your testosterone." (said at 1:16:25)
No published record matching the claim of a 15-fold increased risk of premature heart failure and a 122-fold increased risk of cardiac death from anabolic steroid use was located; this does not prove the claim false. While anabolic-androgenic steroid abuse is recognized to cause cardiovascular harm, published population cohort studies report substantially lower relative risk estimates. For example, a Danish cohort study observed a 3-fold higher overall mortality risk among anabolic steroid users compared to non-user controls (PMID 30460728), and a Swedish cohort study reported a 2-fold increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared to individuals testing negative (PMID 26005042).
"These men had twice the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rate as those with negative tests (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 2.0; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2-3.3)." (abstract, results, passage verified)pubmedfull study (doi)
"Mortality was three times higher amongst users of AAS than amongst nonuser controls (hazard ratio 3.0, 95% CI 1.3-7.0)." (abstract, results, passage verified)pubmedfull study (doi)
"average vaginal length is about 3 and 1/2 inches. So when women get aroused, it expands and widens and lengthens to about double." (said at 1:38:26)
No published record matching the claim that the average resting vaginal length is approximately 3.5 inches and expands to roughly double that length during sexual arousal was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"And so like in exotic places or um with—and a lot of times, like 90% of the time, people fantasize about strangers or it could be someone they know but outside of their relationship." (said at 1:52:48)
No published record matching the claim that approximately 90% of sexual fantasies involve strangers or individuals outside a person's relationship was located; this does not prove the claim false.