How to Improve Health With Sex

Scientific evidence supports what people have suspected for a long time: good sex not only adds joy to life, but it also improves health while even contributing to longevity. When looking for ways to feel better and improve your health, look no further than the bedroom door. Sex is a health regimen everyone can feel good about.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Achieve better health through the daily maintenance of a close, intimate relationship with someone. This type of healthy relationship helps to balance the body's health and healing systems.
2. Engage in sexual activity; it's an exercise that increases your heart rate and overall cardiovascular health. Sex reduces your chances of developing significant heart-related problems such as hypertension and heart disease. Research also shows that sexual dissatisfaction can be prevalent before a heart attack.
3. Focus on developing sexual intimacy to reduce the risks and effects of certain diseases. Sexual contentment may help to lessen the severity of migraine headaches, reduce the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) for women, and ease the pain of chronic arthritis.
4. Cherish close personal relationships. Scientists are researching how the brain and nervous system, the immune system and the sexual-genital system interact and affect overall health. They suspect a biological drive that makes human beings seek closeness, intimacy and connection to other human beings.
5. Understand that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to sex. For women especially, sex goes beyond the physical and has much more to do with feelings of openness and connection to a partner.