Sexual Health: 5 Super Sexy Foods

Does your love life need resuscitating? Ready to bring the romance back to your relationship? There are many natural and nutritional approaches that can help spark more passion in the bedroom.

Eating naturally improves your “wholistic” health as well as your sexual energy and hormone balance. Incorporating foods that nourish sexual health is a safer and longer-lasting approach to regaining your libido – without frightening side effects. To spice up your sex life the natural way, try eating these 5 super sexy foods:

1. Burdock Root

This hardy, brown, twig-like root grows deep in the earth. Its downward-gathering energy supports the lower half of the body, especially the intestines and reproductive organs. Burdock also cleanses the liver and tonifies the blood, which helps to strengthen overall health and boost energy.

2. Pumpkin Seeds

All types of seeds represent new life and improve the health of women’s reproductive organs. Pumpkin seeds are alkalizing and cleansing to the blood. They’re also especially high in zinc, which nourishes men’s prostates.

3. Salmon

Because salmon swim upstream, they contain gathering energy, like burdock root, which helps to nourish and strengthen the entire body. High in zinc, salmon is especially good for strengthening depleted reproductive organs. It also contains omega-3 fatty acids that nourish the heart and cardiovascular system, opening the heart to experience joy and love.

4. Sea Vegetables

Mineral-rich sea vegetables are used in macrobiotics to strengthen the main conduit in the body, the spine. This allows universal energy to flow through the main energy centers, or “chakras”, that run up the center of the body – a simple, nutritional way to harmonize the reproductive organs and strengthen sexual vitality.

Sea vegetables also have unique compounds that bind to toxins and remove them from the body. Wakame is good for the uterus and helps cleanse dairy congestion from the reproductive organs. Sea vegetables help to keep blood vessels flexible and strengthen the cardiovascular system. This allows more love to flow in your relationship.

5. Black Sesame Seeds

Higher in minerals than tan sesame seeds, black sesame seeds help to revitalize the kidneys and reproductive organs. They can be toasted and hand-ground with sea salt to make gomashio (often called “sesame salt”), an alkalinizing condiment for grains and vegetables.

Choosing natural foods over pills is a healthy and powerful way to support your libido. Not only will you prevent an array of health problems by eating these foods, you’ll also achieve balance between your body, mind, and spirit, which makes for a much more joyful and harmonious relationship.

The Author:

Julie S. Ong is Your Guide to Macrobiotic Living and author of The Everything® Guide to Macrobiotics (Adams Media, 2010). She helps couples boost energy, improve sexual health, and nurture loving relationships through better ways of eating.