You Are What You Eat: Diet and Sex

Sex depends on a lot of things to be just right: mood, atmosphere, timing and much more. Without these ingredients, your recipe for passion and fun can flop like a failed soufflé! But there is another key ingredient, a fundamental, personal additive that will take your sex life from fast food to five-course delicacies.

As we move through life, we get busy and the first thing most people lose track of is eating right. We become too dependent on quick meals, prepared dishes and eating out. This type of diet can affect many different aspects of our lives - including our sex lives. While it may not be obvious at first, maintaining a balanced diet of healthy food makes a huge difference to our lusty libidos and sexy skills.

Eat healthy food for a healthy libido

Let's start at the top. One key to being a passionate play partner is, well, wanting to be one! Desiring and wanting sex is just as important as any technique you'll read about. When we want, we are more likely to excel. Unfortunately, the more unhealthy food we eat, the more likely we are to be depressed. And that doesn't get anybody going. Processed foods and junk foods depress our systems and lower our libidos. If you’re looking to keep the blues away, cut down on your coffee intake. It produces the same brain chemicals that stress does. Instead, try a ginseng tea with some nuts and seeds for snacks.

Moving down a little further, you have to have heart to be super sexy. No, literally. Having stamina and interest in sex is directly linked to heart health. If you eat good, healthy food, you increase your chances of a healthy heart, and that healthy heart will reward you with greater cardio strength. That improved cardio will also increase and better your circulation. Fellas, if you're experiencing erectile dysfunction, poor circulation could be a cause. Give your heart some love to improve your chances at lovin'. To be heart smart, cut down on food full of saturated fat and go for something with some good unsaturated fat, such as avocado.

Increase your protein intake

All too often, in our busy lives, a diminishing sex drive often comes down to lack of energy. At the end of a long workday, with kids needs met, errands run, house taken care of and hey, maybe a moment or two of time spent with the partner you would like to have sex with, the idea of actually going through with sex is a daunting one. Have you ever wondered if it were possible to get off together without having to do any work? Or have you declared “Okay, let’s do it, but only if I’m on the bottom and don’t have to do anything?"

This is a good indication you could use some more protein in your diet. Whether you’re a meat-eater or vegetarian, be sure to add some extra natural energy boost. If you do eat meat, try to make your protein supplement less fatty and more lean. If you can combine this increased protein habit with some good exercise, you’ll be ready to work out your love muscles much more often.

Don't go looking for the easy fix

One last word of advice: don’t go looking for the easy fix. While some foods such as oysters can increase testosterone and estrogen production, thereby increasing libido, more food deemed aphrodisiacs are nothing more than rich in certain vitamins and nutrients that might be helpful. Might.

And of course, perhaps the best way that food can increase your sex drive? Put it on your partner and eat it off them!