"Best Foods to Improve Sexual Function"
What are some pill-free ways to improve your sex life?
Exercise, quit smoking, don’t drink too much,
don’t weigh too much, and eat a healthy diet.
But what does that mean?
Heart-healthy lifestyle changes
are sex-healthy lifestyle changes,
as has been demonstrated in studies from around the world,
including in women.
Sexual function in women is also significantly affected
by coronary artery disease,
atherosclerotic narrowing of blood flow through our arteries,
including the arteries that supply our pelvis.
So, high cholesterol may mean lower arousal, orgasm, lubrication,
and satisfaction, and the same with high blood pressure.
So, putting women on a more plant-based diet
may help with sexual functioning.
Researchers found that improvements in female sexual function
index scores were related to an increased intake
of fruit, vegetables, nuts, and beans
and a shift from animal to plant sources of fat.
And, the same with men:
a significant improvement in international
Index of Erectile Function scores.
In fact, the largest study on diet and erectile dysfunction
found that each additional daily serving of fruits or vegetables
may reduce the risk by 10%.
But why?
It may be due to the anti- inflammatory effects.
Two years on a healthier diet resulted
in a significant reduction in systemic inflammation,
as indicated by reduced levels of C-reactive protein.
Fiber itself may play an anti-inflammatory role.
Those who eat the most fiber tend to have
significantly lower levels of inflammation in their bodies.
The opposite was found for saturated fat,
associated with an increased likelihood
of elevated C-reactive protein levels.
This is how we’re used to seeing changes in inflammatory markers,
over weeks, months, or years,
but people don’t realize that the level of inflammation
in our bodies can change after a single meal.
For example, there’s a pro- inflammatory signaling molecule
in our bodies called interleukin 18,
thought to play a role in destabilizing atherosclerotic plaque.
As such, the level of interleukin 18 in the blood
is a strong predictor of cardiovascular death.
What would happen if you fed people
one of three different types of meals:
sausage and egg-butter- olive oil sandwiches,
or cheeseless pizza with a white flour crust,
or the same cheeseless pizza but with a whole wheat crust?
Within hours of eating the sausage sandwich,
interleukin 18 levels shot up about 20%,
an effect not seen eating the plant-based pizza.
And, those eating the whole food plant-based pizza
had about a 20% drop in IL-18 levels within hours
reinforcing dietary recommendations to eat a diet high in fiber
and starches and low in saturated fat to prevent chronic diseases.
But the billions are in pills not plants,
which is why the pharmacology of the female orgasm
has been studied ever since 1972, when a researcher at Tulane University
implanted tubes deep within the brain of a woman
so he could inject drugs directly into her brain,
and was able to induce repetitive orgasms.
A man who had electrodes placed into similar parts
of his brain was given a device for a few hours
that allowed him to press the button himself
to stimulate the electrode.
He pressed the button up to 1500 times.