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What It Does for your General Health |
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Written by Dawn C.
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
Benefiting from Sex - What It Does for your General Health
Sex has a number of benefits towards your physical and emotional health. You can burn a substantial amount of calories and release Oxytocin, which enhances the emotions of affection and nurturing. Sex stimulates the flow of testosterone, which makes your bones and muscles stronger. Therefore, engaging in sex frequently can deliver feelings of love and nurturing; you will burn calories, and your bones and muscles will become stronger. Can you think of any other form of exercise that will give you all of these benefits and more that is of this kind of pleasure? What other ways can sex benefit your total health? There are so many ways you will be amazed.
Having sex on a regular basis helps maintain your weight. Every time you have sex, you are burning calories, which in turn burns fat. Did you know you can burn approximately the same amount of calories having sex as you can walking, weight training, yoga, dancing, canoeing, and playing sports?
Increasing your blood flow to every part of your body, which brings an improvement to your circulatory health? By increasing your heart rate, you are sending oxygenated blood into your organs and nourishing your body.
Sex lowers your cholesterol by increasing the good cholesterol and lessening the bad.
It also lowers your stress level when the stress level goes down it makes anything look possible. Your mood lightens and you are at peaceful.
You also get a better nights sleep a number of men and women after orgasm are in fact able to fall into a deep sleep because they have just released a large amount of stress which they tend not to worry about certain events in the upcoming days or weeks. Your body actually shuts down and relaxes.
Having a healthy sex life helps you live a longer life. Sex helps the immune system and improves almost every aspect of your body. There are studies that show if you were to have two orgasms per week, you could cut the death rate in half as opposed to those who only experience an orgasm once a month. The hormone which is released is DHEA and this helps to increase cognition, maintains and repairs tissues, encourages bone growth, and keeps your skin looking supple and healthy. It aids in cardiovascular health and works as a antidepressant also know as this hormone.
A healthy prostate sex on a regular basis along with ejaculations will keep the men healthy. A number of men have experienced an enlarged prostate and if they live long enough can experience this problem some time in their life. Another way to keep the prostate healthy is to practice doing Kegel exercises. Which will keep the prostate toned and healthy
Sex gives a healthy boost to the releasing of testosterone and estrogen which makes you want to have sex more often. Testosterone also helps in the building and toning of muscles. A womens hormone levels is what keeps her vagina supple and lubricated as well as protect her from heart disease. The estrogen and testosterone are the hormones which make a woman desire her partners touch and his penetration.
Sex can also be a pain reliever during the sexual acts the hormone Oxytocin is released into the blood and which in turn releases endorphins. These are natural opiates and sex has just released a large amount into your bloodstream. Which makes sex a really powerful pain reliever. Did you know that the hormone Oxytocin is what triggers the orgasm? However, when a woman has an orgasm and the uterine muscles contract they contract with the same amount of force that a women has going through labour! Another advantage of sex as a pain reliever is that for a woman who is going through premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or cramps, sex is a great way to feel better.
Sex has a great way of healing the effect on people. However, if sex can be as beneficial as we have seen, sex with love must be awhole lot powerful. If you and your partner are truly in love with each other and there is a big connection on all levels, you can actually stave off premature death and/or diseases. Touch is really powerful and when your partner touches you, your body reacts in a positive way. |