What are the health benefits of sex?

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Sex is one of life's greatest pleasures, and not one that we want to give up because we're too old. It helps us be emotionally, physically, and mentally satisfied. Remaining sexually active will help make your RealAge (physiologic age) younger no matter what your calendar age.

Why? Sex decreases stress, relaxes us, enhances intimacy, and helps form the foundation of strong and supportive personal relationships.

Omega-5, otherwise known as myristoleic acid, is less common in nature -- found primarily in the seed oil from plants in the Myristicaceae genus where nutmeg is the most well known; the oil is also extracted from saw palmetto. Myristoleic acid extracted from saw palmetto has been shown to effectively combat cancer cells in prostate and pancreatic cancers. Additionally, omega-5 may play a key role in the inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase, a mediator of inflammation, thus, by acting in this anti-inflammatory capacity it helps to promote appropriate inflammation in the body.

Food sources of omega-5, beyond extracting myristoleic acid from the aforementioned plants, include the fat of marine animals (wild Alaskan salmon), beavers, and bovines.

Optimism is an extraordinary limbic resource, and available to everyone, because it’s a learned skill. You can decide to be optimistic with remarkable success. Not Pollyanna optimistic, but glass-half-full optimistic, and it’s worth the effort.

Women who are optimistic about motherhood before pregnancy have a much lower risk of postpartum depression. Optimistic women have lower mortality rates from cancer and heart disease. If you approach illness with a positive, optimistic attitude, you have lower blood pressure, better immune function.

You recover from bypass surgery faster and better, you get out of bed sooner after back surgery and you go back to work and regular exercise sooner. Anger doubles your risk of heart disease. But perceiving your work as satisfying cuts your risk of heart disease in half.

Parsley has a number of health benefits, many of which I even didn't know. I'm going to have to remember this question come the Spring when my parsley plants come back to life. ----quote---- Anemia: Builds up the blood because it is high in iron.

The high vitamin C content assists the absorption of iron. €¢ Antioxidant: Increases the anti-oxidant capacity of the blood. €¢ Bactericidal (kills bacteria) • Bad breath • Baldness: Believe it or not, men even scrubbed parsley onto their scalps to cure baldness—which doesn’t work.

€¢ Blood purifier • Blood vessel rejuvenation: Maintains elasticity of blood vessels, and helps to repair bruises. €¢ Diarrhea is greatly helped by drinking parsley tea. €¢ Digestion: Parsley is an excellent digestion restorative remedy.It improves the digestion of proteins and fats therefore promoting intestinal absorption, liver assimilation and storage.

Because of its high enzyme content, parsley benefits digestive activity and elimination. €¢ Dissolves cholesterol within the veins • Diuretic • Ear health: Treats deafness and ear infections. €¢ Edema: Acts as a diuretic and blood vessel strengthener.

€¢ Fatigue: Parsley is high in iron so helps repair and provides components for better blood cells. €¢ Gallstones: Helps dissolve them. €¢ Glandular support of the liver, spleen, kidneys and adrenal glands.

€¢ Gout • Hormonal support: In women, parsley improves estrogen and nourishes and restores the blood of the uterus. Conditions like delayed menstruation, PMS, and the menopause (dry skin, irritability, depression and hair loss) can often improve. €¢ Hormone balancing is achieved through the volatile fatty acids contained in parsley.

€¢ Immune booster: The high vitamin C, beta carotene, B12, chlorophyll and essential fatty acid content render parsley an extraordinary immunity enhancing food. Parsley is an immune-enhancing multi-vitamin and mineral complex in green plant form and one of the most important herbs for providing vitamins to the body. €¢ Inhibits tumor formation, particularly in the lungs.

€¢ Insect bites: Rub on to relieve the swelling and itch. €¢ Jaundice • Kidneys: Parsley is effective for nearly all kidney and urinary complaints except severe kidney inflammation.It improves kidney activity and can help eliminate wastes from the blood and tissues of the kidneys. It prevents salt from being reabsorbed into the body tissues; thus parsley literally forces debris out of the kidneys, liver and bladder.

It helps improve edema and general water retention, fatigue and scanty or painful urination. €¢ Liver congestion: It enriches the liver and nourishes the blood. Parsley helps reduce liver congestion, clearing toxins and aiding rejuvenation.

€¢ Menstrual irregularity: Parsley helps to make the cycles regular by the presence of apiol which is a constituent of the female sex hormone estrogen. €¢ Menstrual pain • Night blindness: Bad eyesight is a sign of Vitamin A deficiency. €¢ Rheumatism • Spleen strengthening: The parsley root in particular strengthens the spleen, and can, therefore, treat malabsorption.

€¢ Stamina loss and low resistance to infection, point to a sluggish liver. This can manifest itself in blood deficiencies, fatigue, a pale complexion and poor nails, dizzy spells, anemia and mineral depletion. €¢ Stomach problems • Strengthens loose teeth: In the Middle Ages parsley was used for many conditions including 'fastening teeth' (Scurvy, which is caused by a Vitamin C deficiency, makes the gums spongy and the teeth loose.

) • Uterine tonic • Weight loss benefits from being a diuretic ----/quote.

Surveys show that 60% of older American women live alone. Those who get out of the house and stay involved with their communities, activities, friends and families do well; those who don’t tend to decay. Hundreds of studies confirm that isolation hurts us and connection heals us through the same basic, physical mechanisms as exercise and diet.

Older people who have at least one close friend have cardiovascular systems that are younger by a series of objective measures than those of isolated people. Blood vessels are measurably more elastic, cardiac reserve is higher, cardiac inflammatory protein levels are lower, blood pressure response to exercise is better, and so on. More connected people also have stress hormone blood profiles that are measurably healthier than those of isolated people.

Less cortisol, less inflammation, less insulin, lower blood sugar. Cardiac catheterization studies show that the less socially connected a woman is, the more plaque she has in her arteries. Women with fewer social connections have fewer circulating immune cells in their blood and weaker immune responses to vaccines.

In one study, researchers swabbed viruses into volunteers’ noses, and the most socially connected volunteers got markedly fewer colds than the least connected. When you take a puppy away from its mother, there are immediate disturbances in heart rate, digestion, cortisol levels, blood pressure, energy and sleep. The same is true for humans.

The more a baby is touched and held in the neonatal ICU, the higher its survival rate; babies who are not touched at all are highly likely to die. That same limbic chemistry operates in adults, too. When nurses touch cardiac patients in the ICU, it brings an immediate reduction in the number of abnormal beats on the heart monitor.

Your blood pressure falls when you hear the sound of another person’s voice. Electrical resistance in the skin, a chemical marker for the fight-or-flight response, falls off dramatically with therapeutic touch or mas-sage. The list goes on for pages and pages, and the point is that connecting is a biological imperative.

With studies we now know that we connect with some miraculous source of healing when you experience times of serenity. Your blood pressure goes down, your immune system gets a boost, and you slow down the aging process. Scientific research clearly reveals that your body replenishes and heals as you practice serenity.

In the silence, your thermostat resets and you settle into the real rhythm of your mind, body, and soul.

Fish consumption has been shown to be very beneficial for protecting againstHeart diseaseAlzheimer's diseaseMany forms of cancer.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

Resveratrol, the chemical found in grape skins (not seeds) is being tried as an alternative method to cause the same anti-aging benefits as calorie restriction. (The calorie restriction theory led to a series of experiments on different animals. Results showed that reducing total calories by 15 to 30 percent of the normal amount extended life by 30 to 150 percent.) Resveratrol apparently acts on certain cellular elements to cause the same changes calorie restriction causes.

Whenever calorie restriction has been applied to groups and species of animals, it has almost always prolonged life span. Calorie restriction without nutrient deficiency is being tried by a few self-selected humans in the United States. Clearly, this is difficult to achieve, as we can't even persuade humans to eat just the right amount of calories, let alone 15 percent less than they would ordinarily eat.

Investigation is being aggressively pursued to see if the effect of resveratrol can be produced by medicine or another food substance.

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