Healthy Life

For those who are celebate for religious reasons, then these findings will probably not have much effect on how you change your lifestyle. But for everyone else, you might be far better off engaging in hot and heavy passion of a physical kind, whether you are man or woman, just for the positive physiological effects it bestows upon your bodily person, not to speak of the mental boons it can provide as well.

After following one-thousand men over the course of ten years, the University of Queens in Belfast published findings which are highly favourable to the interpretation of sex as indeed one of the healthiest activities one can partake of to improve and maintain general health.

Some of the research findings, first published in 1997 in the British Medical Journal, stated that the higher the occurrence of orgasm had a positive correlation with those men who enjoyed a death rate half that of those who did not experience the high frequency of orgasm.

In general, sex has been found to have some of the following health-related side-effects, all of them positive:

Some people claim that sex has a definite smell, others don't seem to notice it, but either way, the post-sex period has an effect on the chemical balance of the brain, specifically increasing the prolactin hormones which are causally related to the developement of stem cell neurons which control the olfactory senses.

In other words, sex makes you 'smell better', so to speak.

Stronger Heart: In a 2001 follow-up to the Queens University study already referred to, researchers looked more closely at cardiovascular health.

What did they find?

The men who had sex at least three times per week, were the men who reduced their danger of heart attack (or stroke) by half.

At the very minimum, sex is certainly a way of working-out the body. The equivalent of fifteen-minutes running on a treadmill, sex can burn up to and beyond, 200 calories during a particularly 'heated' session with a partner.

Pulse? It can rise to 150 b.p.m. and that is up from the normal rate of 60-70 b.p.m.

Like to eat Big Macs? No problem. Indulge in vigorous sex at least three times per week and the Mac will melt away and for men the testosterone levels will rise, (no surprise) during hot passionate activity, and this in turn will lead to healthier bones and muscles...not a bad side-effect for so much fun!

In 2002 a Gullup study found that women can benefit from having sex where the male's semen is allowed to come in contact with the vagina...hence no condom for this effect to have value. (Married or stable partners only, therefore should consider this advantage.)

Prostaglandin, which is a a hormone found exclusively in semen, may be taken-in (when it is deposited) by the female's genital tract, which in turn may modulate the hormones of the woman. This, at present is only a theory which is provided to explain the fact that indeed women who come in contact with sperm do in fact suffer less depression than those who do not.

There is known to be an enormous increase, up to five-times as much, of the oxytocin levels for women, just prior to the onset of orgasm. In turn, this releases endorphins, which lessen the pain of everything from headache to severe migraine. In addition the production of estrogen levels are magnified and this has been known to reduce the effects of PMS in many women.

Pennsylvania's Willkes U. found that for those having sex at least twice per week, there were thirty-percent increases in immunoglobulin A, which has a powerful beneficial effect on the immune system.

Flu and cold virus thus are less likely to invade and thrive in a body where the a strong immune system rules.

Sex is also great for doing what the Kegel exercises do for those who familiar with aerobic work-outs.

These exercises strengthen the pelvic-floor muscles and that is something everyone should be concerned about strengthening, particularly as we get older. The pelvic-floor controls urine expulsion so it is obviously important for that reason, but also has uses in increasing pleasure during sex itself.

Zinc and calcium are found in semen and these are, coincidentally very good minerals to have come in contact with the teeth, just as important as those found in the average toothpaste, and certainly known to have good effects on the strengthening of the teeth and preventing tooth decay.

So enough said--draw your own conclusions as to techniques to attain the seminal fluids for your dental-benefits.