Rejuvenating Sex And Health Naturally
Our physical and psychological makeup is influenced by the sexual
imperative far more than most of us realize or wish to admit.
Entire systems of psychoanalytical therapy (e.g. Freud) are based
upon the premise that we are primarily sexual creatures.
Behaviorally, there is little doubt that there are dramatic
differences between the sexes.
This can be seen even in the
earliest of years. (This is so in spite of vigilant efforts by
"rights" groups to blur distinctions and to declare sexual equality
by legal fiat.) Girls with dolls and boys with trucks and guns
manifest with no coaching from parents, and reflect the
natural nurturing tendencies of
girls versus the more aggressive and protecting inclination of
boys. Physically the primary and secondary sexual characteristics
are obviously different.
These features, in fact, attract the
opposite sex and prepare each sex for reproduction, caregiving and
protection for the young.
But sex is not just about recreation or procreation. It can
directly impact health. For example, the risk of breast cancer is
directly linked to childbearing and nursing in women - having
children and nursing them for extended periods of time decreases
the number of ovulations a woman has and thus decreases the
pro-cancerous estrogen surges.
Other research has demonstrated that
fulfilling sexual activity in women is also linked to health.
A man's sense of strength, perception of attractiveness to
women, feelings of being loved and depended upon, financial
success, respect, and feeling accepted are all intricately tied to
sexuality. Male sexual self-worth goes hand-in-hand with physical
and mental health.
Who primarily commits violent crime in society? Is it not young
men in the heyday of their testosterone surge? Sexuality and health
at their peak create the potential for either great accomplishment
or great harm depending upon how these energies are focused.
On the other hand, when male hormone levels start to ebb in
later years, health decline parallels this downturn. Men experience
loss of muscle mass, lowered energy levels, decreased immunity,
increased susceptibility to a variety of degenerative diseases,
decreased libido and fertility, and various degrees of impotence.
Sensing this decline, men can feel hopeless, worthless and at the
end of life. Such feelings further fuel the downward health spiral
often resulting in an early death.
The importance of sexuality in men is evidenced by polls showing
that men would sooner risk serious life-threatening side effects
than forego the possibility that a new drug (e.g. ViagraT) might
rejuvenate them sexually. Being sexually alive even in the very
oldest of men may be as important as life itself.
Although male hormone levels decrease with age, the slope of the
curve can be dramatically altered. It will not, however, be just a
matter of taking a pill. Supplemental male hormones are available
but their use disrupts the body's natural balances and can cause
negative feedback inhibition. When this occurs, exogenous hormones
(pills) send a signal to hormone-producing tissues that hormone
levels are high enough.
Endogenous (from the body itself)
production therefore slows. Over time this can weaken
hormone-producing tissues so that the initial problem of inadequate
production is compounded. This is at least part of the mechanism
for the adverse effects of anabolic (male hormone-like) steroids
taken by athletes and bodybuilders. Young men eager to exaggerate
muscularity end up with withered and weakened testicles and other
endocrine glands setting them up for serious diseases as they get
older.
A better alternative is to make healthy
lifestyle changes (suggested in the
Optimal Health ProgramT) combined with natural
nutritional supplementation, which has been proven to provide
benefit to many.
Androgenic phytonutrients from
herbs (such as Tribulus terrestris,
Muira puama, Avena sativa and nettle leaf), amino acids (including
L-arginine) and certain foods such as melons naturally increase
testosterone production without the danger of negative feedback
inhibition as experienced with anabolic steroids and other
hormones. Increased testosterone levels, in turn, increase libido,
act as an aphrodisiac and help prevent impotence. (In fact, modern
research has revealed that testosterone is the only substance
capable of generating libido in both men and women.
)
Recent studies suggest that these phytonutrients also affect
brain chemicals such that potency and erectile capacity are
improved and male reproductive system growth, function, and repair
is enhanced.
Phytonutrients can also improve sexual function through
inhibiting the binding of sex hormone-binding globulin to its
receptor site on prostatic membranes. This provides relief to
benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) sufferers who often experience
painful intercourse, a certain impediment to sexuality.
Other nutrients such as zinc, vitamin B12 and vitamin C directly
stimulate sperm production and motility and thus increase
fertility.
Modern, processed, food fraction-based dietary fare can
be woefully deficient in these nutrients. Selecting good
supplements and converting the
diet to more natural, fresh and
varied foods is the solution.
Lifestyle changes (outlined in the
Optimal Health ProgramT) - not the least of
which is maintaining healthy body weight and regularly exercising -
when combined with proper nutrition can rejuvenate the entire body
and with that send a signal to the sexual core of our biological
being that we are alive and well. Such signals stimulate a natural
invigoration of sexuality, and with that mental and physical
health.
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college
instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life,
inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and
fitness products and devices,
research director for the present company by his name and founder
of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The
Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new
two volume set on philosophy for
living entitled Thinking Matters:
1-Living Life..
. As If Thinking Matters; 2-The Big Questions...
As
If Thinking Matters, several books on nutrition, prevention and
health for people and animals and over 18 years of monthly health
newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free
subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at
.wysong.
net. Also check out
.cerealwysong.com
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