Amazing benefits of sex

If your sex life has become something not that important, consider placing it among the priorities as it not only strengthens your teeth, but it can also save your life. Here are 16 amazing benefits of sex.

Some of us are overly committed to maintaining a youthful appearance. We are investing small fortunes in to lotions and creams that have filled our bathroom, we have personal trainers, we pay expensive doctors, nutritionists and healers... We do everything it takes to have a skin that looks younger, better hair volume, less wrinkles on our face… we are also trying to reduce the risk of disease and to make ourselves feel good.
But, as it turned out, the secret of youth may be just hidden in our bedroom sheets. Not only that it helps us feel better and more passionate, it is proven that sex is good for our psyche. Here are 16 amazing benefits of sex that are doing good to our health and beauty. 

Improves hair growth

Our hormones are controlling even the condition of our hair. Studies have shown that satisfactory sexual relations are making our hair healthier and luxuriant because of the increased ability of the body to receive nutrients.

Cleanses our face

Say goodbye to facials treatments and miraculous pills. Sex balances our level of hormones, which leads to a purer skin.  Many people probably didn’t knew about this in high school, because if they did, they wouldn’t have so many problems with impure skin on their face.

Improves the health of teeth

It is determined that semen is rich in zinc, calcium and other minerals that are reducing tooth decay and which have many other benefits when they are absorbed by the body. Although a lot of sex cannot prevent visits to the dentist, extra doses of these minerals will certainly not harm pearly white teeth.

Reduces stress

Life is indeed stressful. Despite many proven ways of reducing it - exercises, a glass of wine, morning meditation, walks on the beach and other – the good old sex also helps. Since blood pressure is increasing during sex, maintaining a healthy sex life helps us to keep the healthy level of blood pressure and stress in its lower limits.

Helps us to fall asleep

That’s the answer why men always fall asleep after sex. Oxytocin that is released during orgasm is the reason. The next time you are unable to sleep, skip the warm milk or a sleeping pill and try sex.

Strengthens a relationship

Oxytocin is also known as the "love hormone" because it helps people build trust and connection. The more sex a couple has, the more oxytocin they exchange and their feeling of connection is strengthening.  Oxytocin also increases a sense of generosity, so if a man is more loving and surprises you with flowers, you should thank this hormone.

Improves heart health

Want to live for 100 years? Sex can help. Studies show that men who have sex twice a week or more have a lower risk of heart disease than those who have sex less than once a month. Of course, there is no man that needs such facts in order to spend more time in the bedroom, but it’s not so bad to know that every time you have sex, you are doing good to your heart.

Improves immune system

You know the old saying "Apple a day keeps the doctor away”? It turned out that there was a typing error in the medical journal. They were supposed to write: “Sex once or twice a week increases the level of antibody called immunoglobulin (which prevents colds and other infections) that really keeps the doctor away”. So, more sex means more stronger immune system.

Strengthens nails

Hormones that sex is stimulating, and that help your skin become shiny, also strengthen your nails, which means that they are breaking less often and look healthier. 

Keeps the skin young and healthy

Sex increases blood circulation, which helps pumping the oxygen in to our skin and leads to a more beautiful appearance. This explains why our skin looks shiny after sex. Regular sexual activity has a prolonged effect in this regard and can indeed make us look younger. Sex improves our natural production of collagen, which prevents wrinkles and sagging of the skin. Simply put, the more "wrinkles" on the bed sheets the less wrinkles on your face!

Reduces weight

Want to lose weight but without giving up on your favorite foods and sweets? Sex can be an option! Although it might not be as productive as weight loss by training, on average, we burn about 170 calories per hour of active sex, which means that you need about 21 hours of active sex to loose one pound.

Maintains hydration

Here's a little science in this regard. Sex improves blood circulation, which gives our body enough moisture to stay healthy. This means, no dry skin. Furthermore, sweating during sex is equal to facial treatment because through sweat we are ejecting filth from our pores.

Reduces the risk of cancer

Studies show that men who, in their twenties, ejaculate five or more times a week, are reducing the risk of prostate cancer by one third, and older men who have 21 or more ejaculations per month are also reducing this risk. As for women, regular sex reduces the risk of breast cancer.

Makes you feel sexy

There is good sex and great sex, the only difference is how it affects your confidence. When you feel great, sex is infinitely good and increases your self-esteem. So, the next time you feel so-so on the sexy scale, check out if sex can help you feel better.

Improves spermatozoids

Several studies have shown that men who have frequent sex have a greater amount of semen and spermatozoids, but also and a greater percentage of healthy spermatozoids than those who have sex infrequently. This is good news for women, because studies show that absorption of sperm helps fight depression, makes them stronger and facilitates the delivery.

Natural painkiller

Oxytocin, one of the chemicals that are released during sex, increases endorphins and reduces pain, especially headache. This means that headache as an excuse to avoid sex, which women are most commonly using, no longer stands. Sex also accelerates the healing of wounds, even ulcers like those that diabetics have.  So, before reaching for the medications, try sex and see if it’s helping.  

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Our first nine months are shaping the rest of our life

Scientists can now predict health of a person even before his birth. By calculating all factors that are shaping the baby in the stomach, they can determine who will later be obese, diabetic, prone to heart attacks, cancer and other diseases.

What makes us the way we are? Why are some people predisposed to be tense, obese, or asthma sufferers? How is it that some of us are prone to heart attack, diabetes or high blood pressure?

Type and amount of food you received in the womb, pollutants, drugs and infections to whom you have been exposed during your mother's pregnancy, your mother's health, stress level and state of mind while she was pregnant - all these factors shape you as a baby and continue to influence you for the rest of your life. 

This is a provocative statement of the theory known as fetal origin, whose pioneers say that nine months of pregnancy determine our later life and permanently affect brain development and functioning of organs like heart and liver. They claim that conditions encountered in the womb shape our susceptibility to disease, our appetite and metabolism, our intelligence and temperament. 

In the literature on the subject, which exploded over the past 10 years, you can find references on the fetal origins of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, allergies, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, mental illness…They are even explaining the causes of diseases associated with older age, arthritis, osteoporosis and dementia.

Most of what pregnant woman encounters in her daily life - the air she breathes, food and drink she consumes, chemicals to which she is exposed, even the emotions she feels – are, in some way, shared with the fetus. The fetus receives all of these influences and makes them a part of its flesh and blood.

Two decades ago, a British physician named David Barker, noticed odd correlations on a map: the poorest regions in England and Wales are the ones with the highest rates of heart disease. After comparing the health of some 15,000 individuals with their birth weight, he revealed an unexpected link between low weight at birth - a common indicator of poor prenatal nutrition - and heart disease in middle age. Faced with inadequate nutrition, concluded Barker, the fetus diverts nutrients to its most important organ, the brain, and skimps on other parts of the body - the debt that is paid later in the form of a weakened heart.

One study that was conducted at Harvard showed that mothers, who gain too much weight during pregnancy, increase the risk that their child will be obese already in its third year. Another study has shown that this relation is present even in adolescence.

During pregnancy, women with high blood sugar levels hinder the development of fetus’s metabolism, and thus create a predisposition to diabetes and obesity. This was determined with a research conducted over Pima Indians in the reservation in Arizona, which have the highest percentage of type 2 diabetes (metabolic disease) in the world. Studies have shown that the cause of this is prenatal experience, or, to be exact, high blood sugar levels in mothers during pregnancy.

Frederica P. Perera, Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, became interested in the effects of polluted air on the fetus some 30 years ago. Perera’s research was associated with exposure to polluted air during pregnancy, something that affects the number of adverse birth outcomes, including premature birth, low birth weight and heart disorders. One of her most memorable studies was the one from 1998, when more than 500 pregnant women, from Upper Manhattan and South Bronx, wore identical black backpacks at all time, for two days. Inside each backpack was a device that was constantly monitoring air pollution levels. When babies were born, blood analysis from the umbilical cord showed that 40 percent of them had subtle DNA damages, and this is associated with increased risk of cancer. Further analysis revealed that these children were more than two times slower in learning at the age of 3, had less points when they enrolled in school at the age of 5, and less points on IQ tests than children who were exposed to less polluted air when they were in the womb.

During similar researches, scientists came to believe that the conditions in the womb affect not only our physical health, but also the intelligence, temperament, even sanity.

The evidences show that pregnant women, who are exposed to starvation or extreme stress, deliver children with higher risk of schizophrenia. In the mid-20th century, inhabitants of the province of Anhui in China suffered from a severe starvation. Individuals who were born to women who suffered from hunger had two times more chances to suffer from schizophrenia than those who were born in another period.

Catherine Monk, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, says that mental state of pregnant women may shape the psyche of a child. In fact, Monk and her colleagues have, in a way, "put the fetus on the couch". In her laboratory, they attached devices, that are measure breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, excitement, and heart rate of fetuses, to depressed and anxious pregnant women on one side and pregnant women with normal mood on the other side. Then they subjected these women to mental exercises. All women showed signs of physiological stress when they were answering on the questions during this test, but only fetuses of depressed and distressed women displayed their own disturbances. “This difference suggests that these fetuses are more sensitive to stress. This kind of research takes us back to the original question, when did we became what we are now” - says Monk.

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Numbers for healthier life!

Scientists have come across magical figures for long and healthy life. Besides recommendations regarding weekly consummation of alcohol and sugar, this new list also recommends and a number of required orgasms, along with restricting your daily use of Facebook to one hour max.







You probably know how much fat content has your milk you buy everyday, how many kilometers you can run on a gym treadmill and how many calories your going to kill that way, and you maybe know even your body mass index. But, right now there are some new and interesting numbers which are key to your physical and emotional health. This here is one of wining number combination's  for your healthy life.

• 5 drinks

Right now there is an on-going debate about healthy effects of alcohol (moderate use is potentially very good for your heart) versus negative effects (other researches have shown that alcohol can increase the risk of breast cancer and other tumors), so the right number of drinks depends mainly from your personal health, history and risk factors. However, according to the latest researches, it is recommended to limit your alcohol consummation to 5 drinks per week, if you are a woman, while men can drink a few drinks more.

• 1 orgasm

One happy ending of a day can actually be ideal. The most important is not to allow your self long periods without orgasm. The experts say that in principle many orgasms are required and that sometimes masturbation is a great way to experience them. Orgasm is letting you free from anxiety and stress and your heart is having the most benefit from it.

• 3 hours of yoga

For people who have mild but chronicle back pains the magical number is three and that’s exactly how many hours per week you should commit to yoga practicing. One study has determined that patients with chronicle mild pain in their back who have practice iyengar yoga for 90 minutes per week for six months, the pain reduced and so did depression. They could physically do a lot more than the patients who went and used conventional treatments.

• 500 calories less

If you reduce your daily input of calories by 500 – you will lose 0,5kg per week. That maybe sounds a lot, but it isn’t. Reducing your daily quantity of calories by 500 in combination with physical activity will set you free of 3.500 calories per week and that is equal to one kilogram of fat that you will remove from your hips. Also, even a minimal reduction of your body weight can do a miracle for your health because with that you are reducing your chances of suffering from heart diseases.

• 8 scoops of sugar

Statistics say that we eat about 97kg of sugar per year, and that is about 30 scoops per day. The most of it comes from food in which we add sugar (not counting fruit or milk because it contains sugar by it self). Sugar has its place in healthy diet but if it is over present he is not healthy anymore. It is recommended that daily quantities are limited to 32 grams or 8 scoops (which is around 2000 calories).

• 1000 IU of vitamin D

Although there exist no formal consensus about exact quantity of vitamin D that is required, a lot of experts recommend about 1000 IU (international units) daily. Lack of vitamin D is common for adults and children and it is associated with many health issues, from increased blood pressure and sugar disease to depression. Recent researches indicate that low level of vitamin D is causing double risk from stroke and death. Vitamin D is present in provisions such as salmon, canned tuna fish, yolk and milk. You can introduce vitamin D and with exposure to sun but its less dangerous if you input it through food.

• 6 painkillers

60 million Americans are everyday swallowing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like Ibuprofen. But up to 30% of them will be suffering from gastrointestinal ulceration, and even have symptoms like dyspepsia or nausea and vomiting, because this drugs are irritating gastrointestinal tract. Healthy women that are using medications for spasm and pains shouldn’t take more than two pills of Ibuprofen three times a day. If your pain is extreme and or doesn’t go away within 10 days, you should talk to your doctor.  After examination he will dismiss some serious problem or give you the green light for increasing your doses.

• 3 sushi's

Fish is an excellent source of proteins and omega-3 fat acids, but people who eat fish every day are risking to introduce to much mercury in their organism. Pregnant women or women who are planning to get pregnant are recommended not to introduce more than 40 calories of fish like salmon per week. If they it tuna fish then the limit is 20 calories per week. Risk of poisoning with mercury is even greater threat for pregnant women, kids, older persons and ones with weak immunity. That’s why they should skip raw and partly cooked fish, and they shouldn’t even think about oysters.

• 1 hour on-line

Facebook or Twitter networking can be fun and it could even help you in your business. But to waste more than 1 hour daily on social networks can be a sign that you should dedicate more of your attention to real needs of life. How to progress (not just survive) in a time of personal and global turnovers? Although social networking researching is still rare, 1 hour daily is widely accepted among experts as a sufficient time during which your presence on the network will not have negative effects on your off-line relationships or your job.

• 1 weight measuring

Women are advised not to step on a scale more than once a day and it is advisable even less. For many women, weight measuring more than once a day can be contra productive, not to mention that it is madness. If you notice some extra few grams, it will make you a person who is preoccupied with food or your body. If you are in this faze, it will be smarter to hide your scale in a closet for some time.

• 3 sweeteners

In sweeteners or products with low level of calories, enjoy mostly women, but diabetics also, who now have a wider specter of food choice. Nevertheless, safety issues are worrying many people. Based on most evidence, this stuff is safe but nevertheless we should be cautious and moderate. This means that we should not take more than a few sweetener pills per day with our coffee, plus to eat yogurt with zero percent fat and drink diet soda drink. 3 sweeteners per day are enough and we should not take more than that.

• 6 hours of sleep

Almost third of us losses sleep because of finance worries, according to one research. Lack of sleep is causing an increased level of hormone grelin, which is increasing are desire for food, and reduced level of leptin, which represses appetite. Most adults need seven to eight hours of sleep. If you face problems with your sleep, first check your diet habits and physical activity before sleep (besides avoiding caffeine and alcohol, 3 hours before sleep you should rest good). If you still have problems, talk to your doctor.  

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