Gentlemen, if you want to have a fulfilling sex life, you better get rid of your belly. Excess belly fat turns your testosterone, the essential hormone for libido, into estrogen. In other words, you become effeminate and no longer have sexual desire or the ability to maintain an erection.
What to eat and what to avoid to restore testosterone
According to surgeon Mihail Pautov, abdominal fat leads to the secretion of enzymes that convert testosterone into estrogen.
Testosterone is responsible for your athletic strength, how clearly you think, but also your libido, your sex drive, and your ability to get a proper erection, he says.
Excess fatty tissue induces hormonal disorders – the amount of estrogen in the body increases, to the detriment of testosterone.
The more belly fat you have, the greater the risk of erectile dysfunction.
To get rid of the belly and recover testosterone and, by default, sexual desireDr. Pautov says so you have to do sports and give up flour, excess potatoes, rice.
It is not needed all those simple, empty carbohydrates. You don’t have to rule them out entirely, but you can replace them with smart carbohydrates – all vegetables and fruits of all colors. You need to have about 30 percent smart carbohydrates in your diet, adds Dr. Mihail Pautov.
In other words, to have sexual pleasure, you have to give up the pleasure of junk food.
High cholesterol also affects your sex life
The relationship between obesity and erectile dysfunction becomes even clearer when the following two things are understood: how important blood flow is for normal sexual function and how obesity affects the vascular system.
An erection is, in principle, a cardiovascular event, being the result of an increase in blood flow.
If the blood cannot circulate normally because the blood vessels, in turn, cannot dilate normally, hence there is a decrease in erectile function.
Although the exact mechanism by which it occurs has not been discovered impotenceobesity appears to damage the vascular endothelium (a major component of the vascular wall), which, if not functioning properly, will not supply enough blood to the genitals to produce or maintain an erection.
Like this, a man’s ability to have and maintain an erection depends on the health of his circulatory system, more precisely, the condition of the blood vessels.
His turn, the vascular system is impaired by obesity. Foods rich in fat, bad carbohydrates and a sedentary lifestyle contribute to the narrowing and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), so that cholesterol accumulates more and more on the walls of the arteries.
Just as arteriosclerosis, in case of localization in the coronary vessels, can cause a myocardial infarction, it can easily affect the small blood vessels that lead to the genital organs. Their damage can also precede damage to other vessels and therefore erectile dysfunction may be one of the earliest manifestations of atherosclerotic disease, added Dr Şerban Vasile, primary surgeon.
Studies show that weight loss, especially in the abdominal area in men, has a significant positive effect on sexual function. After a Clinical study conducted in Naples, Italy, it was observed that 32% of obese men who lost 5% of their weight (20 kg) were able to restore their sexual function.
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