Benefits Of Sex For Your Health

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

In addition to being a way to express love between the couple, sex has numerous benefits for our health. The Puerto Rican sexologist and host of Escuela para husbands (Fox Life), Alessandra Rampolla, explains 10 that you may not have known.

1. Improve your physical condition. "We cannot forget that it is an exercise that tends to be quite active, so it improves flexibility, muscle strengthening and affects the energy drive of people who have regular sexual intercourse, about three times a week."

2. It is an effective pain reliever. "The famous excuse of 'Not today, I have a headache' loses its validity in the face of studies that have found that sex can help decrease headaches, menstrual, premenstrual and joint pain."

3. Regulates cholesterol. "It can help to have a healthy balance between good and bad cholesterol levels for each person."

4. Oxygenate your cells. "Being an activity that stimulates movement, sex increases the amount of oxygen that reaches the cells, and as a consequence, optimizes the activity of all organs and body systems."

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5. Increase testosterone. "This hormone strengthens bones and muscles and is responsible for unleashing human sexual desire."

6. It improves the DHEA level. "Another hormone that increases with sexual activity is DHEA, associated with an increase in libido, increase in muscle mass, and works as a natural antidepressant. This hormone also helps balance the immune system, maintains healthy skin and improves cognitive processes."

7. Extra benefits for women. In women, the regular orgasmic response increases their hormone levels and reduces the risk of coronary heart disease. It also maintains the female genitalia, lubricating and softening the vaginal walls that with a lack of use could atrophy”.

8. Healthy color. “The increase in blood circulation during sexual activity, together with the flushing that is commonly seen on the skin after a strong orgasmic experience, help to provide freshness and luminosity to the skin. We get cute!”

9. Total relaxation. "After sex, the body releases endorphins that make us experience feelings of relaxation and general physical well-being, and that allow us to fall asleep more easily and deeply, providing total rest that regenerates all the functions of the body."

10. Stronger ties. "It also positively affects relationships, as there is an increase in the levels of oxytocin, a hormone that precipitates sexual desire. And sex is an important component in maintaining the couple's emotional intimacy."