How Sex Improves your Health

Sex is a way of showing love. It makes your relation strong and also, makes you emotionally attached with your partner. It not only requires your physical involvement but also mental involvement. Not only Sex is a great stress buster but also improves your health. Don’t get shocked, it’s true that sex improves your health.

By getting involved in intercourse three times a week, you burn up 35,000 kilojoules of calories, which is equivalent to running 130 kilometers in a year. I know you must be thinking of dropping the idea of going for running, instead you are thinking of spending some cozy and romantic moments with your partner.

Not only sex burn calories but as Sex stimulates the production of a natural amphetamine that regulates the appetite called phenetylamine, so it has a calming effect on food cravings also.

Not only this, sex increase your testosterone levels and supplies you with HDL (Good) cholesterol. It also fortifies your bones and muscles.

Just prior to orgasm, hormone called DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is released. This hormone is good for our health as it improves our immune system, improves cognition, build our bones and inhibit the growth of tumor. One of the great ways of protecting against cold and cough is having regular orgasms.

During sex, body’s natural pain killers called Endorphins and other feel-good hormones are released. These hormones relieve from whiplash, arthritis and headache and also give you feeling of well-being. These hormones have a calming effect on our body and relieve you from stress also.

In women, during sex a hormone called oxytoxin that arouse the desire to be touched, is released in large doses and level of estrogen hormone also increases.

Hormone called Estrogens in women is associated with better cardiovascular system and better bones. They are also responsible for the development and maintenance of female reproductive structures, also protect the heart and extend the life.

Collagen is also produced during sex which keeps the skin supple and gives it a peachy glow.

So, have a vibrant sex life and enjoy a longer and healthy life.