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Sexual Orgasm Increases Longevity

Ladies, how would you like to cut your partner mortality risks by 50 percent, literally by doing what comes naturally on a regular basis? This interesting Forbes.com piece cites a number of sound medical reasons, based on a number of studies, why having sexual intercourse on a regular basis with a willing partner is a healthier option for both of you, versus abstinence.

Some noteworthy health advantages for keeping the sexual spark alive in your relationships:www.v.mercola.com

  • Reducing the incidence of depression.
  • Improving your immune system.
  • Adding to your exercise load.
  • Strengthening your body's natural ability to relieve pain.

If you're having a problem in that part of your life, please don't fall for the hype behind sexual dysfunction medications. As convenient as they appear, impotence drugs contribute to infertility, heart problems and can even blind you. And, taking synthetic hormones in hopes of putting the spring back into your step causes all sorts of terrible health problems too.

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British Medical Journal, Vol. 315, No. 7123, December 20, 1997: 1641-1644 Free Full Text Study

This interesting Forbes.com piece cites a number of sound medical reasons, based on a number of studies, why having sexual intercourse on a regular basis with a willing partner is a healthier option for both of you, versus abstinence.

One warning from the article, however, that you would do well to take seriously: if you're having a problem in that part of your life, please don't fall for the hype behind sexual dysfunction medications.

As convenient as they appear, impotence drugs contribute to infertility, heart problems and can even blind you. And taking synthetic hormones in hopes of putting the spring back into your step causes all sorts of terrible health problems too.

If you want to get your sex life back on track (and improve your health as a happy side effect!), here as some natural alternatives to treating sexual dysfunction:

Dr Mercola's Comment

  • The neurotransmitter that causes the sexual message, in men and women, is acetylcholine (ACH). With too little ACH, sexual activity goes down. One way to safely and effectively enhance ACH levels in the body is to take choline supplements (1,000-3,000 mg) and vitamin B5 (500-1,500 mg).
  • Studies have shown active men who engage in regular physical activity lowered their risk of experiencing sexual dysfunction. So start an exercise program guys! Remember, when using exercise as a drug, it is important to set a goal of 60 to 90 minutes per day, every day. Obviously, depending on your current condition, you may need to work slowly up to this level.
  • Optimize your diet based on your body's unique nutritional type. We each have a unique nutritional type and each type demands varying ratios of macronutrients (fats, proteins and carbohydrates) to function optimally. This is why you may respond well to a low-carb diet while your friend on the same exact diet may not.
  • Because sexual dysfunction can worsen due to stress and anxiety, take control of your emotions by learning the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), the proven energy psychology tool I use daily in my practice. EFT is a psychological acupressure technique that can help you to effectively address your stress-related thoughts and leave you feeling calmer and more able to face your challenges.

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BY Adam_S   
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not everyone is as conservative as Katherine.  Physically teenagers are adults, which most traditional cultures have long recognized.  Just because you're overlaying a repressive Victorian construct--the teenager--on top of your Judeo-Christian cultural heritage doesn't mean that there is an actual difference between teenage and adult sex (except perhaps frantic energy and enthusiasm).  Teenager is a semantical invention about a hundred and fifty years old.  It actually gained teeth as a part of culture around the time that the high school building spree of the nineteen-tens and twenties took kids out of the competitive work force and compelled them to attend school.

I imagine Katherine would happily marry her brother in law if her husband died (even if he already has a wife) after all, that particular LAW in leviticus is only a handful of verses away from the ones about cleanliness during menstruation, homosexual sex, guidelines for kosher food preparation. and much more.

I hope you've never eaten bacon (or if you did you ritually cleansed yourself and kept yourself out of society for ten days), because the old testament philosophy you're invoking in your idiotic attitude towards sexuality doesn't distinguish between levels of sins.

On the other hand Christ made a very clear distinction between sins of the flesh--sins when we don't overcome our animal nature--and sins of spirit--of maliciousness.  Christ could have cared less about the sins of the protitute flung at his feet, those were so unimportant to him--you sound ready to stone her (and every other teenager who has succumbed to their animal nature and had sex) 2000 years later.  On the other hand Christ unleashed holy anger at the Pharisees and money lenders who were guilty of malicious sins of the spirit.  One sin is a human failing of the body we overcome on our path to God  the other is a sin against our soul and spirit. 
 
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BY Anne_Cramer   
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Adam, why do you conveniently forget where Jesus says to the woman, "Go, and sin no more?"   You have taken things seriously out of context!

            
 
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BY mamabear   
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I am coming in late on these posts but I just have to say that Orgasm is not a Sin. It is a physiological response to stimuli, where the stimuli comes from could or could not be a sin depending on personal views. Without getting too personal I would say that a STRESS causes sickness and orgasm releases STRESS, seems pretty simple to me.

            
 
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I don't understand what homosexuality has to do with the rate of abortion in any way.

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BY Katherine Mayfield   
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Adam, you are trying to combine the Mosaic Law, which is dead, with the Higher Law, which is alive. As far as eating so-called unclean meat, such as bacon, this is what God has to say about the matter in His own words...almost (I paraphrased a little, but you can look up the scriptures, if you like):

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. Acts 10:9 (NIV). He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. Acts 10:10 (NIV) He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. Acts 10:11 (NIV) It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Acts 10:12 (NIV) Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." Acts 10:13 (NIV) "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." Acts 10:14 (NIV).

The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." Acts 10:15 (NIV) This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven. Acts 10:16 (NIV). Furthermore, it has been proven that the brains of teenagers are still developing so therefore it is not wise that they have sex at all--just because a person is physically ready to have sex doesn't mean they are emotionally ready.

My idiotic attitude towards sexuality, as you say, is anything but that, because if people would abstain from fornication, adultery and homosexuality, the abortion rate would drop significantly (it's interesting that with all this birth control out now, the abortion rate is skyrocketing) because almost all abortions are performed on single women; if people would abstain from those three sexual sins, there would be fewer divorces (even though there is no longer a stigma to shacking up, giving people the chance to "try each other out" before they marry them, the divorce rate is 50%), and AIDS may even be wiped off the face of the earth if people would just stop jumping in the sack with strangers.

Dr Mercola is just using the health benefits of orgasm to justify his fornicating with his signifcant other.

 
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