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Plenty of things can do a number on your erection: poor cardiovascular health, alcohol consumption, smoking, and taking certain medications all come to mind when you think of the usual suspects of problems with your “plumbing”, so to speak.
However, one of the most notorious mood killers might just have flown under the radar in the form of poor nutrition. What you put in your body and how often you put them in your body can ruin your mood, energy, circulation, and hormone production – all of which play integral roles in maintaining a healthy sex life.
And just as there are many food sources to help maintain your erections, boost your sperm quality, and increase your testosterone levels, the same is true about eating habits that kill off your libido.
Let’s take a look at the six ways your diet could ruin your sex life – and what you can do to raise your performance levels when you need to the most.
While getting the booze on might help you turn up the confidence levels up a notch, having too many drinks hanging off your dick will spell trouble getting it up when it matters.
Alcohol is a proven depressant, and its consumption can contribute to dulling the feelings of sexual stimuli and reduce the blood flow leading to and from your penis. Why? Because your body’s working overtime to expel the alcohol from your body, rather than focusing on fueling your hard-on.
Worse, binge drinking can seriously diminish your testosterone levels and increase estrogen, which can rob you of your sex drive, dampen the mood, and make it infinitely harder to achieve mind-blowing orgasms even when you can get it hard enough.
The more you drink, the more difficult it is to get and stay hard. Want to keep your erection at its best? Cut off the booze to one drink per day – or just drop it entirely.
High-sugar diets affect overall cardiovascular health, and consequently affects your reproductive health. Sugar also reduces your sex drive due to its effect of diminishing your T levels. According to a 2013 study, individuals who consumed twice the recommended daily intake of sugar for men experienced a 25% decrease in average T levels.
That’s not to mention the subsequent sugar crash, which might leave you too exhausted to even think about having sex.
The solution is to consume natural sugars rather than high-fructose corn syrup, whenever possible. As far as added sugars in baked goods and soft drinks are concerned, the AHA recommends consuming no more than 36 grams per day for men.