Fuel for Love

Researchers have found that many foods contain hundreds of chemical compounds that have very specific, and sometimes sex-enhancing, effects.

You can make nutrition as complicated as you like, but you should follow the basics—keeping your weight down, eating less junk food, and getting the right mix of protein, carbs, and fats. You're going to have more energy than you did before. Simple as that.

Energy, of course, is one thing, and sexual energy and capacity are something else altogether. Which brings us to the subject of food and sex. In the past few decades, researchers have gotten pretty good at decoding the chemical mix in the foods we eat. What they've discovered is that many foods contain hundreds of chemical compounds that have very specific, and sometimes sex-enhancing, effects.

They're not aphrodisiacs, in the sense of driving up libido and inflaming desire. Rather, many of these chemicals essentially fine-tune the machinery of sex by reducing cholesterol buildup and enhancing blood flow, stimulating the release of feel-good brain chemicals and hormones, and giving your body the chemical energy it needs to work at top capacity.

From Built For Sex, a Rodale Inc. book

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