Why sex is good for health Regenerate general energy, rejuvenate, improve health: sexual pleasure acts as a natural remedy and libido prolongs life. Explanations.

Numerous studies confirm this: desire, this life instinct contributes to our longevity. Just because the pleasure of making love makes happy, and that the state of bliss is excellent for the immune system. Physical pleasure, source of energy, promotes a better hormonal balance. The explosion of endorphins in the brain at the moment of orgasm creates this feeling of euphoria and then of well-being: calm, reduction of stress and anxiety and sleep recovery.

The hormone of the hug
The hormone that puts us in this condition and makes us addicted to each other is oxytocin. Boosted by caresses and kisses, it reaches its maximum in the blood at the moment of the orgasm. Well known for triggering childbirth and developing mother-child attachment, oxytocin also plays a role in protecting against breast cancer. Released by the stimulation of the nipples during sexual intercourse, it would help to eliminate the carcinogenic elements of the mammary glands. "Women whose breasts are regularly caressed during sexual intercourse are better protected from breast cancer. This is what a 1995 study reveals, explains Sylvain Mimoun , gynecologist, and sex therapist. Make love boosts the general and local circulation. Regular sexual intercourse thus reduces the risk of inflammatory phenomena that make the bed of cancers and cardiovascular diseases. In case of abstinence, it is therefore advisable to caress. "

Men also concerned
"On the male side, an American study, carried out on 30,000 men and confirmed by an Australian study, shows that frequent ejaculations lower the risk of prostate cancer," explains Frédéric Saldmann, cardiologist, nutritionist and author of La Vie et le Time (I read, "Pocket", 2012). The statistics are more than precise: from twelve monthly ejaculations prevention becomes significant and twenty-one ejaculations per month reduce this risk by a third. Indeed, the prostatic massage performed during the report and the emission of sperm would help to eliminate carcinogenic cells. And it would also reduce the microcalcifications that accumulate in the prostate. Again, studies point out that in the absence of sex, masturbation protects the prostate.