Sexual Health Is Anti-Aging

Your sex life holds the key to your longevity. It is always a misconception that your sex life becomes more unfulfilled as you age. But loss of sexual function and erectile dysfunction are NOT the normal consequences of aging. Of course, the male and female experience gradual but significant changes in their sexual response as they continue to age:

Male

·   Delayed penile erection
·   Diminished ejaculatory secretions
·   Short duration of orgasm

Female

·   Diminished vaginal secretions
·   Delayed arousal
·   Fewer and weaker uterine and vaginal contractions

                     Male erectile dysfunction or impotence

Causes

Previously, it was thought that male erectile dysfunction was mainly due to psychogenic factors:

·   Depression (bereavement or loss of interest)

·   Fear of failure (performance anxiety)

·   Widower’s syndrome (a new sexual relationship)

·   Over-stress

Now, medical science has discovered the main causes of erectile dysfunction are more than psychogenic:

·   Vascular dysfunction (50 percent) - poor arterial inflow, excessive venous outflow or both

·   Neurologic problems - stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord trauma and tumor, among others

·   Diabetes (Read my web page Diabetes.)

·   Systemic disorders, such as renal failure

·   Medications (all anti-hypertensives), such as antidepressants and H2 blockers

·   Obesity

·   Zinc deficiency

Are you in good sexual health?

Male sexual health means that healthy males have 2 to 5 nocturnal erections, each lasting about 20 minutes. If you don’t, you may have organic, rather than psychogenic, causes of erectile dysfunction. And you must address this issue that may affect your sexual health.

On the other hand, if you do have nocturnal erections, your problem may be psychogenic. And in that case you should also do something about your psychogenic problem to improve your sexual health. Remember, sexual health is also physical and mental health.

Diagnosis

You should be screened for sexual problems so that proper diagnosis can be conducted to identify the cause or causes of erectile dysfunction that may adversely affect your sexual health.

Device to treat erectile dysfunction for better sexual health

Vacuum tumescent device uses a pump to create negative pressure in a tube placed over the penis artificially to induce erection. After a cork ring is placed at the base of the erected penis, the vacuum is released and the tube is removed; the erection can usually last up to 30 minutes.

Medication to treat erectile dysfunction to improve sexual health

Viagra is one of the more common prescribed medications to treat erectile dysfunction. However, Viagra is not a sex hormone or aphrodisiac. It works by increasing the blood flow into the penis; it does not produce an erection of its own accord, and adequate sexual stimulation is still required to produce an erection. Viagra’s side effects include headaches, stomach upsets, and rarely heart attacks.

According to Chinese medicine, sexual problems are due to energetic weakness of the kidney. Yin (female energy) serves as a container for yang(male energy). The kidneys are responsible for all sexual and reproductive functions. Therefore, if your kidneys are healthy, you feel good about yourself sexually. Get Kidney Rejuvenator to enhance your kidney health.

Sensate focus touching exercise to treat erectile dysfunction due to the mind to enhance sexual health

If you problem is due to anxiety, practice sensate focus touching exercise. It is a "no-sex" exercise to relieve the pressure of performance. Partners touch one another, including breasts and genitals. Exploring each other’s body helps to express pleasures without anxiety that intercourse must follow the foreplay. Finally, mutual masturbation can help many individuals overcome impotence due to the mind.

                                              Hot Rod for Men

Hot Rod for Men is based on an ancient Chinese holistic all-natural herbal formula of an imperial physician to the emperor. One of the most important ingredients is deer antler velvet, which has been used for thousands of years in China for sexual health enhancement. The Chinese believe that ejaculation of the male seed for purposes other than having children is a wasteful loss of an extremely precious treasure, and hence the need to preserve and enhance it with deer antler velvet, which functions to:

·   Stimulate growth of your organ and testosterone production

·   Increase your libido

·   Balance your hormones needed for peak sexual function

·   Strengthen your qi or life force energy for optimum overall health.

With six other topnotch ingredients, Hot Rod for Men is highly recommended for sexual health enhancement. Of course, there are many other sexual enhancement products on the market, but 95 percent of them may contain yohimbe, a proven herbal aphrodisiac with undesirable side effects. Hot Rod for Men not only is free of yohimbe, but also contains all natural herbs to give you peak performance within 40 minutes by channeling maximum blood flow to your sex organ for quality sex to benefit your sexual health.

Hot Rod for Men is highly recommended for optimum sexual performance and sexual health at any age for optimum sexual health.

                                               Male low libido

Causes

Emotional stress from an unsatisfactory relationship is one of the major causes of low sex drive, which may adversely affect your sexual health.

Emotional symptoms resulting from mental anguish may also be due to dietary deficiencies (vitamin B6 deficiency; lack of essential fatty acids) and the environmental assaults (toxins in drugs, chemicals in pesticides and industrial pollutants) on the body.

Treatments

·   Both herbs, Saw Palmetto and Damiana, increase sensitivity of the penis and enhance sexual desire, and hence benefit sexual health. Saw Palmetto must contain 85 to 95 percent fatty acids and sterols, with a dose of 80 to 160 milligrams twice daily to be efficacious.

·   Drug use, processed foods, sugar and caffeine, drinking and smoking diminish your sexual desire, and contribute to depression and stress, adversely affecting your sexual health. Remember, anything that creates a high in you inevitably results in a low in the brain, where sexual desire originates.

Any artificial stimulant may have long-term effect on your sexual health.

Some foods believed to have aphrodisiacs (Greek goddess of love) properties for better sexual health.

Whether the following foods can actually enhance your sex drive and improve your sexual health is up to anyone’s guess:

·   Fresh figs
·   Ginger
·   Ginseng
·   Mussels
·   Oysters
·   Pine nuts
·   Snails
·   Snake
·   Spanish fly (crushed and dried bodies of a southern European beetle)

                                             Prostate cancer

The prostate is a large male glad located just below the neck of the bladder and around the top of the urinary tract.

Prostate problems

Prostate problems usually begin after age 35. By age 50, 25 percent of all men have enlarged prostate, and by age 80, nearly 80 percent have prostate problems of some sort. As you age, enlarged prostate is as inevitable as death. But the good news is that the majority of men do not die from prostate problems or prostate cancer. However, prostate problems may have adverse effect on your overall sexual health.

There are two major factors contributing to enlarged prostate as you age.

·   Obesity

    Avoid a diet high in saturated fat, especially meat from animals injected with hormones.

·   Hormonal changes

    Hormonal imbalances may be caused by an enzyme that interacts with your testosterone, producing di-hydrotestosterone (DHT).

Alcohol, especially beer, elevates the DHT in your body. Drink less.

Saw Palmetto (an herb) and Pygeum Africanum reduce your DHT levels. Take their supplements.

Symptoms of enlarged prostate include:

·   Frequent urination
·   Occasionally painful desire to urinate
·   Reduced flow of urine
·   Incontinence
·   Fever
·   Lower back pain
·   Insomnia
·   Physical fatigue

Nature has provided you with 4 warriors to combat potential prostate cancer. Make the most of them to maintain and sustain your sexual health:

·   ISOFLAVONES: Genistein in soybeans inhibits prostate cancer cells. Eat more tofu, tempeh, and miso.

·   SULFORAPHANES: Eat all cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale) raw, or only lightly cooked to get the benefit.

·   LYCOPENES: Eating cooked tomatoes makes lycopenes more digestible, and adding flaxseed oil makes it more easily absorbed. Watermelon and pink grapefruit also have lower concentration of lycopenes.

·   POLYPHENOLS: The EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) in green tea kills prostate cancer cells.

The prostate diet essentially takes away the fat from your body to maintain your overall fat intake at 10-15 percent, which constitutes good sexual health.

·   Cut down on meat and dairy products. Beware: food with 100 calories may elevate your body’s fat content up to 45 percent even with one tea-spoon of oil; all processed foods are high in hidden fat.

·   Eat whole grains and fiber-rich vegetables to help remove fats from your body for better sexual health.

·   Use olive oil for cooking. Always go for low-fat cooking options: steaming, blanching, baking, and broiling, instead of frying.

·   Get at least 15 minutes of sunshine everyday. Research has shown that places with less sun have higher incidence of hormone-related cancers.

Treatment

Maintaining healthy functioning of the kidneys is integral to your prostate health. Your entire life cycle is linked to the condition and maintenance of the kidneys, which play a critical role in your sexual health.

The kidneys are the “root of life” and the “basis of life.” Rejuvenate your kidneys, which play a critical role in your overall sexual health.

Natural prostate recovery requires abstinence of sexual intercourse, which irritates the prostate and delays the repair process, which may ultimately damage your sexual health.

Treating prostate problems with medications often comes with a list of side effects that can lead to loss of libido and potency. Think twice before you resort to medications and invasive procedures.


                        The importance of male sexual health

Testosterone

Testosterone is a natural anabolic steroid hormone produced by the testicles. It plays a critical role in your sexual health.

The levels of testosterone vary throughout a man’s life: it increases significantly during puberty to manhood. For most men (about 80 percent), testosterone levels remain within the normal range throughout their lives, although the amount of hormone in the blood declines gradually after the age of thirty.

Testosterone is responsible for the following:

·    Maintaining the sex drive

·   The growth of the penis, testes, and scrotum

·    Stimulating sperm production

·   The ability to ejaculate

·   Sustaining the body’s muscle bulk

Making love regularly stimulates the production of testosterone, which in turn fuels the production of sex drive.

Ejaculations on a regular basis make for a healthier prostate.

Without the sex drive, there is no sex, and sex forms an important bond between a man and a woman, such that when it declines or stagnates, the whole relationship falls apart, resulting in all types of health-related problems.

Stress from work, from finance, from health, from relationship takes toll on your libido and plays havoc with your sexual health, which will ultimately consume the well-being of an individual. The importance of sexual health cannot be overstated.

If you want to have sex for the rest of your life, focus on how to keep having sex for the rest of your life. In other words, always keep yourself in good sexual health.

Recommendations for men for better sexual health

·   Aloe: Erectile dysfunction
·   Bee pollen: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Cayenne: Erectile dysfunction
·   Damiana: Prostate, erectile dysfunction
·   Garlic: Erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Gingko biloba: Erectile dysfunction
·   hGH: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Lecithin: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Pygeum: Prostate, erectile dysfunction
·   Royal jelly: Erectile dysfunction
·   Saw palmetto: Prostate, erectile dysfunction
·   Sea vegetables: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Velvet antler: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance
·   Wheat grass: Prostate, erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalance

                       Female sexual dysfunctional problems

Women have advantage over men in sexual matters in that predominantly they need not worry about performance. However, they are not immune from other related sexual problems, such as, loss of libido, menopausal conditions, vaginal dryness, and vaginal atrophy.

Loss of libido

There are several factors affecting loss of sexual desire in women, both organic and environmental, which may adversely affect their sexual health as well as that of their partners.

·   Emotions affecting hormone levels and the endocrine system

·   Depression causing physical fatigue

·   Menstrual cycles

·   Dietary deficiencies, such as a lack of essential fatty acids, protein deficiency due to dieting

Taking supplements of DHEA (a hormone naturally produced by the adrenal glands), and Damiana (an herb) will help enhance your sexual drive, and hence improve your overall sexual health.

Menopausal conditions

Menopausal conditions affect the sensitivity of the tissues of the bladder and urethra. The frequency of urination or a full bladder will curtail a woman’s desire for sexual intercourse.

Taking supplements of vitamin B complex and calcium will support the nervous system and decrease mood swings.

High doses of estrogen (the female sex hormone) may suppress your immune system. Menopause lowers the risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers due to the reduction of estrogen level. However, it may lead to weight gain or obesity, which can convert other hormones and steroids into estrogen. Therefore, overweight women are more at risk for breast and other cancers after menopause than thinner women.

Also, before menopause, women have lower cholesterol level than men, but during and after menopause, their cholesterol level may dramatically elevate.

Loss of estrogen increases the risk for osteoporosis in women, resulting in the characteristic stooped "widow’s hump” posture.

Virtually all women going through menopause agree that getting the right information, the right facts, uncovering the truth about menopause at the right time is invaluable.

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Vaginal dryness

Itching and burning sensations are symptoms of vagina dryness.

Female estrogen deficiency is the main cause of sexual problems associated with a reduction in vaginal blood flow, decreased vaginal lubrication, and increased vaginal fragility with thinning of vaginal mucosa - all leading to difficulties in sexual intercourse and intimacy enjoyment. Estrogen has a positive and beneficial impact on vaginal lubrication and tissue, and testosterone plays a significant role in libido in the female.

Application of creams and lotions is not a long-term solution to vaginal dryness.

Avoid using bubble bath, hand lotion, vinegar, and soaps to treat your vaginal dryness, because these products irritate rather than relieve the symptoms.

A diet rich in vitamins A, C, and E, and a good essential fatty acid source, such as flax, will help support your mucous membranes and moisten your vaginal lining.

Taking a supplement of a growth hormone (hGH) may not only lubricate the vaginal but also restore youth and vitality. Learn more about Oral Human Growth Hormone.

Vaginal atrophy

Vaginal atrophy, a closing down of the vagina during or after menopause, causes painful intercourse. Such occurrence is due to a drastic decline in testosterone level beginning at age 40.

Application of natural progesterone cream and supplements containing testosterone may reduce vaginal atrophy and restore the elasticity of the vagina.

Ginseng, an herbal source of plant testosterone, stimulates production of testosterone in the body.

There are many different medical advice sites for different diseases and getting answers to medical questions for different health issues like women's health.

Recommendations for women for better sexual health

·   Aloe: Menopause
·   Bee pollen: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Damiana: Low libido
·   Dong Quai: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Ginger: Low libido
·   Ginseng: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   hGH: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Lecithin: Low libido, menopause, vaginal dryness/atrophy, hormone imbalance
·   Nutritional red yeast: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Royal jelly: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Velvet antler: Low libido, menopause, hormone imbalance
·   Wheat grass: Low libido
·   Wild yam: Menopause, hormone imbalance

Many of the above are obtainable from Herbal Remedies.

It should be noted that wheat grass is beneficial not only to men and women’s sexual health but also to their overall physical health. (Read the benefits of wheat grass on my web page Daily Good Health Maintenance.) You can easily grow wheat grass at home, juice it, and reap its immense health benefits.

                      Reasons for changes in sexual activity

The most common reasons for aging individuals, both men and women, to change their sexual activity are as follows:

·   Lack of a partner
·   Partner’s erectile problems
·   Personal health problems
·   Vaginal dryness

But you need not reluctantly change your sexual activity simply because you are growing old; longevity living permits you to enjoy what is left of you; make the most and the best of what you have.

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If you (or your partner) have an erectile problem, go and fix it with Hot Rod For Men.

If you have health problems, do something about them. Physical health, mental health, and spiritual health are conducive to sexual health, which is an important ingredient in longevity living.

It is fallacy that man’s sexual and spiritual energies are opposing forces, fostering the misconception that one has to deny one’s sexuality in order to become more spiritual.

In fact, sexuality requires an individual to do some soul-searching to recognize his or her innermost feelings and to express them through intimacy; it is something more than just physical, leading to a spiritual dimension. Therefore, sexuality and spirituality complement and enhance each other - both are powerful forces for longevity living.

               The importance of sexual activity in longevity

According to the Oriental wisdom, yin and yang are two aspects of Heaven and Earth, which are in constant flux, controlling and restraining each other. They are forever at variance with each other, like the changes of the four seasons. These changes are what maintain human life. To live a long life, individuals must abide by the natural variances of yin and yang, just as they must act in accordance with the changing of the four seasons.

When an individual suppresses his or her sexual activity, the vital life energy, or qi, is incapable of being vented, and the intermingling of yin and yang is therefore obstructed. If blockage occurs, it is then impossible to keep the tone of the physical body, which is normally provided through sexual activity.

It is absolutely necessary that the qi of the body is allowed to move so that it may aid in the venting of waste gases and other toxic materials from the body for ultimate health. Therefore, sexual activity - not necessarily intercourse - is an important component of balance and harmony in any individual, irrespective of age. (To find out more about qi, read my web pages:Natural Healing For Longevity Health and Anti-Aging)

Remember, sex is sacred because it connects you in the most basic way to the source of Creation; it is an act symbolizing the origin of life, and hence is life in its essence.

In addition, sexual activity contributes to companionship, an important ingredient as one ages.

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