An Active Sex Life Is Alkalizing

When you have "sex" on your mind, chances are "alkalizing"
is the last thing you're thinking about - but the two
actually go hand-in-glove! Sex promotes both our physical
and psychological health which in turn may help to
maintain the alkaline design of the body.

The following are eight ways in which having sex
can help to alkalize the body:

1) Sex Reduces Stress. Scottish researchers studied
the sexual activity of 24 women and 22 men, then put
them in stressful situations such as public speaking.
The subjects who had intercourse withstood stress
better than those who either abstained from sex or
engaged in other sexual activities. The reduction
of stress helps to reduce metabolic acids.

2) Sex Increases Metabolism. Sex burns up 85 calories
in 30 minutes, and 40 half-hour sessions will burn
about 3500 calories, which is enough to lose one
pound of acidic weight/fat.

3) Sex Builds Cardiovascular Health. English researchers
found fear of a stroke during sex is groundless. They
followed 900 men for 20 years and found no connection.
On the other hand, they found that the men who had sex
at least twice a week reduced their risk of a heart
attack by half compared to men who had it less than
once a month.

4) Sex Helps Lymphatic Circulation. The lymphatic
system functions with the contraction of muscles.
Sex helps to activate the lymphatic system which
in turn helps to move acids out of the tissues
that can cause aches and pains.

5) Sex Helps To Reduce Acidity. When having sex
dietary and metabolic acids are eliminated through
perspiration from increased lymphatic circulation
and through respiration from heavy breathing.

6) Sex Builds Immunity. Having sex several times a
week has been linked with raising levels of the
antibody immunoglobulin A (IgA), which helps to
buffer acids that produce the symptomology of a cold,
according to researchers at Wilkes University in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

7) Sex Builds Bonds. Sex raises the level of the
hormone oxytocin, known popularly as the "love hormone,"
which results in building trust and strengthening
relationship bonds. The more contact - including hugs -
the higher the level of this "love hormone."

8) Sex Lowers Pain. As the love hormone oxytocin
builds, endorphins rise, which results in lowering
of acidic pain. If aches and pains are better after
sex, it's because of oxytocin levels.

9) Sex Lowers Risk of Prostate Cancer. Frequent
ejaculations in young men may lower the risk of
prostate cancer in later years. Australian researchers
studied men with and without prostate cancer, and
found frequent ejaculations in men in their 20s
offered protection, but found no such link for men
in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.

10) Sex Promotes Sleep. Oxytocin is at the forefront
again - it helps both men and women sleep, which in
turn promotes healthy alkaline weight and lower
blood pressure. (Although women would almost
universally say it had a much stronger effect
on men, who are wide-awake one minute and sound
asleep the next minute.)