5 Foods That Kill Your Sex Drive
by Grant Stoddard
If you or your partner isn't in the mood tonight, it very well might be because of something you ate.
Have you ever been in a car where the driver keeps hitting the
brakes? It can be sheer torture, right? That's what these foods are to
your sex drive, which is typically fueled by testosterone. We often
think of it as a hormone than men have zipping through their bodies.
Estrogen, on the other hand, we mainly consider to be a female hormone.
The truth is that both testosterone and estrogen play vitally
important roles in the bodies of both sexes and—unless we have a good
ratio of one to the other—all sorts of things can get wonky. Men can
grow breasts; women can sprout excessive facial hair. But in both cases,
an imbalance of testosterone and estrogen can increase or decrease
libido—and a surprising amount of research has gone into figuring out
which foods can increase or decrease our T and E levels.
Below are some of the food items could futz with that delicate
balance or be a contributing factor to a sputtering sex drive:
1. PROCESSED FOOD
Processing removes most of the nutrients in whole foods, including ones
that are important to your desire for hanky panky. For example: When
whole wheat is processed into white flour, it loses about three-quarters
of its zinc, a mineral essential to men's sexuality and reproduction.
Eating refined grains can lead to insulin resistance, the last stop
before diabetes.
