Sex – it’s not just for reproduction and pleasure; it’s also imperative to your overall well-being!
There are many surprising health benefits to having an active sex life, ranging from better-looking skin to reducing your risk of serious disease. Unfortunately, we often overlook or minimize the importance of our sexual health. Here are some of the benefits to lovemaking:
Better Relationships – sexual intimacy stimulates the production of hormones, like oxytocin, that help to build feelings of love, trust, and bonding between partners.
Reduces Stress – sex relieves stress and anxiety by stimulating the release of hormones that make you feel good, calm, and relaxed. One of the basic foundations of optimal wellness is the reduction of stress. Stress can lead to inflammation. When inflammation becomes chronic, it may lead to many long term health concerns and diseases.
Reduces Pain – sex releases hormones that raise your threshold for pain, helping to relieve discomfort from common conditions like headaches, cramps, arthritis, and back pain.
Improves Sleep – the same hormones that relieve stress and pain also help you fall asleep more quickly, sleep longer, and improve the overall quality of your sleep.
Counts as Exercise – intercourse increases your heart rate, engages various muscles, and burns about five calories per minute, which adds up to 150 calories burned in 30 mins. Sex should not replace regular workouts, but it does count as exercise and will help improve your overall health and fitness.
Balances Hormone Levels – regular sex helps to keep your hormone levels in balance, which reduces the risk of many health problems, like osteoporosis and heart disease.
Strengthens Immunity– regular sex helps your body produce more of the antibodies that protect you from the viruses, bacteria, and germs inclined to make you sick.
Lowers Blood Pressure – sexual intercourse can lower systolic blood pressure and hypertension, reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Enhances your Skin – sex stimulates the production of hormones that have many anti-aging effects, such as estrogen and testosterone, both of which keep us youthful and vibrant, and prolactin which lowers internal inflammation to reduce blemishes and puffiness. It also gets the blood flowing, sending oxygen throughout the body, to create that well-known post-sex “glow” and promote the production of collagen.
Boosts Brainpower – studies have indicated that more sex helps you to think more clearly and can improve your memory.
Strengthens your Libido – Increasing the frequency of satisfying sex can significantly increase your desire; so, the more sex you have, the more you’ll enjoy it!
There are also benefits that are gender-specific.
- For women, orgasms help to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, which is very important to maintain proper bladder control and avoid incontinence. At Belcara Health we offer two types of vaginal rejuvenation treatments — Core Intima laser treatments and O-Shot PRP injections — to improve a woman’s ability to achieve orgasms.
- For men, frequent ejaculations have been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
If your sexual life is not what it once was, it is important to learn why because many of the physical conditions that lead to sexual dysfunction can be addressed with the right treatments. There are a lot of misconceptions and myths out there around erectile dysfunction and other related conditions. That’s why our Sexual Health Specialists are here to help you identify and treat the root cause of your condition through ED therapies, vaginal rejuvenation and genital aesthetics, and more so you can enjoy an active, healthy, satisfying sex life once again.
Schedule your private consultation today. Call 410.296.0414 or contact us online.