Foods for a Healthy Blood Flow

It’s no secret that maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help keep up your sexual performance. Exercise helps. But so does eating a variety of healthy foods.

Dial down the fatty, artery-clogging food and fill up on the stuff that’s good for you: fruits, vegetables, lean proteins and whole grains.

More specifically, Best Life has come up with a roster of foods that help boost a healthy blood flow – one of the keys for sexual function.

* Pomegranate juice: The Journal of Urology finds it cut the risk of erectile dysfunction in rabbits.

* Shrimp salad: The zinc in the shrimp and the folate in leafy greens can boost sperm levels.

* Oatmeal: Helps release testosterone into the blood supply, which can increase your sex drive and orgasm strength.

* Citrus fruits: Vitamin C keeps sperm from clumping, and men who have at least 2,000 milligrams a day improve their sperm counts and motility.

Lower Your Stress to Improve Sexual Function

Treating your erectile dysfunction, and doing it effectively, requires a comprehensive strategy. Making lifestyle changes may not be enough – on its own – to bring success.

But the healthier you are, the more successful your treatment will be.

Being healthy means reducing stress.

Stress is natural, but it can cause your body lots of problems. To deal with it, you have to identify what triggers it and find ways to direct it and reduce it.

A good first step is finding an effecting way to relax and making it a regular part of your routine. Take some down time. Even if it’s just a few moments, it can make a difference.

Take a look at your goals and expectations. Are they unrealistic? This could be causing you stress that could be avoided.

Talk about your problems with a friend; having a heart-to-heart can help you adjust your perspective.

Keep an upbeat attitude, and believe in yourself. Accept that you cannot control everything that happens. Be assertive, not aggressive.

To manage more difficult forms of stress, it may help to look for professional assistance.  Boston Medical Group are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of men’s sexual health.

Dried Tomatoes May Prevent Prostate Cancer

New findings by researchers at the University of Missouri suggest that dried tomatoes show a potential for preventing prostate cancer. In some cases, dried tomato product prolonged life by eleven weeks.

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“Processing of many edible plants through heating, grinding, mixing or drying dramatically increases their nutrition value, including their cancer prevention potential,” said Valeri V. Mossine, Ph.D., research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri.

Mossine and colleagues found that FruHis, an organic carbohydrate found in dehydrated tomato products, provides a strong protective effect.  During the research, a control diet and a tomato-based diet were set in place. After the test was completed, three times as many tumors were found in those not given the extract of Fruhis in their diet.

Mossine “evaluated the anti-cancer properties of FruHis and 14 other D-fructose amino acids and found that FruHis in a concentrated form protected against DNA damage known to lead to prostate cancer,” says the American Association for Cancer Research.

Mossine urged not to draw conclusions from such a preliminary test but said  “the result may introduce an additional intrigue into an ongoing dispute over the beneficial effects of dietary lycopene and tomato products in lowering the risk of prostate cancer. Human trials are certainly warranted.”

Source:  Science Daily