Health Benefits of Sex

Sex is Good for Relieving Stress

Sex has health benefits. Yes, doctors will admit this. Of course, they are talking about protected sex, hopefully with one steady partner. Now just think about it for a moment. How do you feel when you are in a loving relationship, when you are having sex, making love on a steady basis. Don't you feel better? Doctors and researchers admit that you aren't just imagining this. You can actually feel better. Sex has many health benefits. 

For starters, it is a stress reliever. Stress is a killer. We all are filled with it. Stress invades are bodies from practically the moment we awake to the moment we try to fall asleep. With good sex, we can rid our bodies of this poison and hopefully have fun doing it.

By relieving stress, we also are happier and less depressed. Depression is growing by leaps in bounds in America alone. Just look at all the antidepressants on the market today. It is scary.

Stress can also cause us to over-eat. Over-eating causes us to be over-weight. Plus, what do doctors recommend we do when we need to loose weight, exercise? Sex, is an exercise.

With a reduction in stress, we also sleep better at night. Sleeping better, means our bodies functions better and we are again more relaxed.

Okay, so far, we have established that sex helps our stress level, which helps us fight depression, makes us happier, helps keeps us from over-eating and helps us sleep better, which allows us to function better. Plus, it is an exercise. Not bad, huh. But there is more.

Researchers also say that having sex can lower our cholesterol. This is again because of the exercise factor and we all know exercise is suppose to help lower our cholesterol (yes, it is).

Sex can also help improve our circulation. When we are having sex, our heart beat increases (hopefully), this causes our blood flow to increase to our brain and to other parts of our body, thus our blood begins circulating better.