More Valentine's Day tips: Getting healthier improves your sex life....

Today's Post: Tuesday, 2-15-2011

Yesterday was Valentine’s day.

It’s icon is the red heart design.

It’s theme is love.

Love can be caring, affection, warmth, and a good relationship with someone special to you. So Valentine’s day is about that kind of love

Since sex often works best in such relationships or starts them, Valentine’s day is often about sex.

The wonderfully good news is that virtually everything that you do to improve or protect your health with eating right, exercise, taking key supplements, and losing fat or staying trim both improves your sex life and allows you to keep it for years or even decades longer.

1. Good sex is sexual and about literally feeling good and pleasure.

But for that to work well, your nerves and brain need to work well and stay with you instead of disappearing. The good news is that exercise has been found to cause your body to release a key nerve growth hormone, BDNF, every time you exercise. So, exercise literally grows new nerves and brain cells. In fact, it was in the news lately that even moderate walking if you do it every week, will prevent your brain from shrinking as you get older.

2. Sex response at its best requires good blood circulation to work well.

That means that everything you do to keep your circulation good and your arteries clear and your heart healthy improves and preserves your sex life. (Our next post on Thursday is planned to cover much more on protecting your heart and the many ways to do that which also protects your circulation.

But one of the best ways is to get regular exercise each week. If you do vigorous interval cardio or focused strength training you can literally feel the increased circulation and with the interval cardio, you get so much all over your body, right at the end, you will actually look reddish from the extra circulation.

But the news is even better than that. It has long been known that getting such regular and vigorous exercising dramatically slows aging. So you look younger because in many ways you actually ARE younger. And you keep your good health longer – and a decent sex life longer.

AND, it was recently found that such a regular and continuing practice of doing vigorous exercise every week boosts your good cholesterol and lowers your bad cholesterol and triglycerides more years you exercise like that, the better your readings get! So instead of your heart attack risk and circulation getting worse as you get older, they get better instead!

3. High blood sugar causes type 2 diabetes if it gets bad enough which causes circulation problems and often causes sexual problems because of that.

But both doing any vigorous exercise even for as little as two minutes every day and doing both strength training and interval cardio every week, strongly lowers high blood sugar, improves insulin resistance or simply prevents them. (If your HBA1C reading is high, this kind of exercise has been proven to lower it.)

4. Being fatter than you should be cuts back on your sex life. You have less energy and your body makes less sexual hormones. So you are in the mood less often. Sex becomes harder to do. And, you look less attractive.

The good news is that many of the things to stop eating or drinking to protect your heart also make you fat, so for many, eating real food instead will remove many pounds of excess fat.

And, again regular exercise, doing both strength training and interval cardio every week, burns extra calories directly and even for hours afterwards. So it allows you to eat more and still get or stay trim. Plus you gain more muscle which burns more calories than the fat it replaces.

Again, there’s more. Even before all the fat comes off, people who begin to exercise regularly begin to get better health and better circulation AND have much higher self esteem.

So, getting both strength training and interval cardio every week is a potent way to improve and keep your sex life.

Lastly, something not everyone knows yet is this.: IT WORKS AS WELL FOR WOMEN AS IT DOES FOR MEN. And, it’s quite effective for men.

5. The one non-exercise way to improve your sex life that’s so important, I’ll include it today as well as next time is this.:

Not every one who smokes or is exposed to second hand smoke gets cancer from it though far too many do.

But what way too few people yet know is that EVERY exposure to tobacco smoke begins to cause heart disease and make your circulation worse. No one exposed often to tobacco smoke has as good a circulation as they would if they were not exposed.

But making your circulation worse means your sex life will be worse. Since this effect also causes ED, for men it often gets MUCH worse.

So the second major way getting healthier improves your sex life besides exercise is to completely avoid tobacco smoke.