Aside from putting a spring in your step, science has proved that having regular sex can not only feel good, but do good.
Unbeknown to most, there are many surprising and
unusual benefits to the act - from keeping your heart healthy to
achieving younger skin. To celebrate World Sexual Health Day, we’ve
rounded up a handful of the best.
Sex is good for your ticker
Anything that exercises your heart is good for you, and regular orgasms improve cardiovascular health.
Sexual arousal sends the heart rate higher and the number of beats per
minute reaches its peak during orgasm - meaning you should aim to have
more if you want to cut down on your gym time.
Sex makes you look younger
Here’s a good reason to stop spending money on
expensive face creams: Regular sex could now be the key to looking up to
seven years younger according to Dr David Weeks, who is the former head
of old age psychology at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
According to Dr Weeks, sex can make men and women look
between five and seven years younger. Of course, this is mainly due to
the health benefits attached to sex - a healthy person tends to look
younger than an unhealthy person - the act of lovemaking also releases a
human growth hormone which can help skin to retain elasticity.Sex can help you to de-stress
Feeling the strain at work? In recent stress tests,
including public speaking and doing mental arithmetic out loud, the
people who had no sex at all had the highest stress levels whereas
people who regularly had sex had the smallest rise in blood pressure.
Sex can keep you in shape
According to a study by the University of Quebec
at Montreal, a 24-minute sex session can burn 104 calories for men and
69 calories for women. That’s around the same (average) amount as
walking a mile.
Sex can combat illness
Want to avoid getting the flu this winter? According to a study carried out in Pennsylvania and published in Psychology Report,
people who have sex once or twice a week have, on average, 30pc more
Immunoglobulin A (IgA), which is used to fight illness, than those who
are not sexually active.
Sex can help you sleep better
Forget wellbeing retreats and sunrise lamps - sex could actually be your key to a good night's sleep. The researchers at the Yale School of Medicine
say the production of oxytocin and the decrease in the body’s cortisol
leaves your body in a relaxed state, making it easier to drop off.
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