Good Sleep, Great Sex & Exercise Keeps Your Heart Young
Good
sleep is major to great sex
Research findings say women who slept better had greater desire
the next day. So ladies if you’re looking for ways to jump start your sex life,
you may need to rejig your sleeping habit.
The research states that extra hour of sleep increased, by 14%,
the possibility of a woman participating in sexual activity with a partner the
next day. The argument is that a great
deep rejuvenating sleep is crucial to a healthy sexual desire and arousal in
women.
171 women were examined who kept diaries of
their sleep for 14 successive days and reported whether they engaged in sexual
activity the next day. Longer sleep hours was connected to greater sexual
desire the next day. Women with longer average sleep duration reported better
genital arousal than women with shorter sleep time. On average, the women
reported sleeping 7 hours, 22 minutes.
Other studies have suggested that short sleep hours and poor quality sleep lead to poor female sexual response. These findings propose that a
closer examination of sleep health in women with sexual problems is a useful
endeavor, as poor sleep may lead to sexual problems.
Though it’s uncertain how lack of sleep affects sexual desire, the
message is that sleep health is important for many areas of our daily living.
Good sleep has been shown to improve mood, energy, concentration, overall
health, and sexual desire and arousal. So for now, ladies you can include
it in your list of benefits of good quality sleep to your health.
Generally
the message is that women and their partners can help promote good sleep for
each other, thus protecting against problems in the bedroom, by helping to reduce
workload, go away on romantic weekends, or just work at a good sleep habit.
Exercise
Keeps Your Heart Young
Research has shown that a lifetime of
exercise may keep the heart young and prevent one of the most common
age-related heart problems. An active lifestyle can prevent stiffening of the
heart, a condition that can lead to heart failure in older adults. Research
findings show the hearts of athletic senior citizens were half as stiff as
those of adults who had been sedentary throughout their life.
Heart failure occurs when the heart is
no longer able to pump blood efficiently to meet the body's needs. The risk of
heart failure increases with age, and the condition is the leading cause of medical
condition among people over 65.
Almost 50% of all heart failure cases
are a result of diastolic heart failure, which is caused by a gradual
stiffening of the heart muscles. The lower chambers of the heart relax and
function to fill with blood in between heartbeats, but when the chambers fail
to relax completely, an aging heart can cause an increase in pressure within
the heart chambers. In people with diastolic heart failure, the heart appears
to be pumping normally, but the stiffened heart muscle causes excess fluid to
build up in the lungs, feet, legs and ankles.
Researchers examined whether stiffness of
the heart and pumping ability deteriorated with aging alone or if sedentary
lifestyle also contributed to this process. The result was that the older,
sedentary individuals' hearts were 50% stiffer than the senior athletes, with
an added bonus that the hearts of these senior athletes were similar to those
of the healthy younger participants. The pumping ability of the senior
athletes' hearts was the same as that of the younger adults less than half
their age.
Generally the message is that you can
be young and have an aging heart if your life is sedentary, so this is the time
to involve in exercise training if you want to prevent stiffening of the heart
muscle.
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