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Eating Your Way To Better Sexual Health.

Eating a healthy and balanced diet can have many positive effects on your overall health, including your sexual health. Here are a few ways that certain foods can benefit your sexual health:

By saddamhussain4494Published about a year ago 4 min read
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healthy diet that includes a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, nuts and seeds, seafood, and dark chocolate can help improve your sexual health by providing the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. Eating a balanced diet, getting regular exercise, and maintaining a healthy weight can also help boost your overall health and improve your sexual function

Fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants and phytochemicals, which can help protect your body against damage from free radicals. These molecules can also boost your circulation, which is important for sexual function.

Seafood: Seafood is a great source of zinc, which is essential for the production of testosterone, the hormone that plays a key role in sexual desire and function. Oysters in particular are often considered an aphrodisiac due to their high zinc content.

Nuts and seeds: Nuts and seeds are rich in healthy fats, which can help lower cholesterol and improve blood flow to the genitals. They are also a good source of protein, which is essential for the production of sex hormones.

Whole grains: Whole grains are rich in B-vitamins, which are essential for energy production and the nervous system. They also provide important minerals such as zinc and magnesium.

Lean proteins: Eating lean proteins like chicken, fish, and tofu can help maintain muscle mass, which is important for sexual function. They also provide essential amino acids that are necessary for the production of hormones.

Berries: Berries are rich in flavonoids, which are antioxidants that can help improve blood flow and protect the body against damage from free radicals. Berries are also a good source of vitamin C, which can boost the immune system and help the body fight off infections.

Dark chocolate: Dark chocolate is a great source of flavonoids and can help improve blood flow to the genitals. Dark chocolate is also rich in antioxidants that can help protect the body against damage from free radicals.

What do grapes, oysters, and chocolates have in common? Well, aside from being food, they’re all supposedly aphrodisiacs. For

the unaware, an aphrodisiac is basically a food or drug that has effects on sexual health, typically by either making it

easier to become sexually aroused or by boosting sexual performance. Now, while all of the above foods have been known to

release varying levels of endorphins into the body in the same way sex does, they are not necessarily all that beneficial to

one’s sexual health. Of course, that doesn’t mean that food and meals don’t play a part in a person’s sex life, because

there’s quite a bit of scientific data saying that it does.

Working from the top and going down, the brain is the core of all activity that concerns the body, including sexual

functions. Replacing full meals with snacks or junk food can seriously decrease the usual flow of nutrients to the brain,

making it less capable of processing all the stimuli and emotions involved in sexual activity. In short, the lack of

nutrients can dampen someone’s ability to enjoy sexual intercourse.

Moving a little lower, it makes sense that sexual health is connected to the overall state of the circulatory system. Blood

circulation is necessary not only for the proper functioning of internal organs but also for ensuring the functions of the

male and female reproductive organs. So, if the heart or the blood vessels are in poor condition, it also has a detrimental

effect on the body’s ability to perform properly during sexual intercourse. Increased or improved blood flow helps increase

the sensitivity to stimuli of the appropriate organs and heightens the level of physical endurance during intercourse.

For more specific help regarding food and sexual health, some might want to look into Nitric Oxide, which is not to be

confused with Nitrous Oxide. Nitric Oxide (NO) is the substance found on the lining of the internal workings of male and

female genitalia. Without it, men can’t obtain or sustain an erection (even with proper blood flow), while women are unableto become lubricated, regardless of what stimulation is put in there. Some doctors suggest that the ingestion of arginine,

another substance which encourages the body to produce NO. Arginine helps improve circulation and sexual health. Arginine is

typically found in walnuts, almonds, and salmon.

Antioxidants, particularly the ones that are chemically abundant in dark chocolate, also have positive effects on sexual

performance and health. Antioxidants are linked to improved blood circulation, something that has already been mentioned as

being beneficial to sex. Other good sources include tomatoes, spinach, garlic, red peppers, and red grapes. However, some

point out that chocolate somehow also increases desire along with improving performance, likely because certain components in

    chocolate can improve circulation.Overall, a healthy diet that includes a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, nuts and seeds, seafood, and dark chocolate can help improve your sexual health by providing the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. Eating a balanced diet, getting regular exercise, and maintaining a healthy weight can also help boost your overall health and improve your sexual function.

    BY MOHAMMAD SADDAM HUSSSIN NOORPUR BEGUSARAI

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