mere 1 mm wide, or the size of a little coffee-stirring straw.
Which one do you think would clog up quicker? Makes you think, doesn’t it, guys?
A study of 3,000 men by the National Institute on Aging found that men with higher blood pressure had double the risk of developing a useless tool between their legs than those with lower blood pressure.
These discoveries have also debunked the old impotence myth that men lose their sex drive as they age. In 2007, the
New England Journal of Medicine
published a report on the largest sex study of seniors ever conducted; it showed that healthy old timers often feel as frisky as anyone else. It’s the sick ones who need a little pill. Doctors now believe that older men lose their mojo because they are more likely to have diseases that compromise their blood circulation, like heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, all results of eating too much meat.
In other words, going flaccid is not a natural part of the aging process.
All this is good news for plant-strong eaters because if a food is heart healthy, it is also pants healthy. So if you want to keep raising the flag, snuggle up to libido-friendly fruits and veggies. Foods that come from animals just clog your arteries and keep blood from flowing to the place you need it most: your Eiffel Tower.
23
Plants Light Up Your Love Life: Women
N ot long ago I received this testimonial from a new adapter to the plant-strong life who happens to be sixty-nine years old. “Dear Rip: Sorry to make this R rated. But I have to tell you I have been on plant-based eating for about 11 months now. I am 100 pounds lighter. I am 69 years old and I have not had sex for years with my husband. The last month I just can’t get enough of him. I am convinced the blood flow has reached new and exciting places, thanks to the Esselstyns’ books and DVDs. It’s like getting married all over again.”
It’s true for women as well as men! Plants improve your enjoyment of sex. To prove it, I have handed over the reins for this chapter to my sister, Jane Esselstyn. Jane has been teaching sex education to middle-school boys and girls for more than eighteen years using an open, humorous, and approachable style. She’s also a mother of three, writes a blog called
Puberty from Head to Toe
, and is a plant-strong cooking genius. Take it away, Jane!
For women, the term “sexual health” could simply refer to a rocking, healthy sex life, but it also refers to her body and the systems associated with her gender: breasts, uterus, endometrium, body fat, and vascular system. Most people don’t realize that applying a plant-strong diet to the complicated equation of women, sex, and health engenders exciting results.
As discussed in the previous chapter, a major benefit of eating a plant-based diet is blood flow. Blood flow is essential for a penis to achieve an erection. Similarly, blood flow helps women in different areas, in different ways.
Front and center in this blood-flow discussion is the clitoris. In GPS terms, this little bundle of eight thousand nerves, this doorbell of desire, resides just south of the pubic bone, just ahead of the vaginal and urethral openings, and is housed between the genital labia (lips).
The clitoris is only the beginning of the story. This external button is literally only about one-tenth the size of the equipment within. When a woman is aroused, the external clitoris, also known as the glans, engorges with blood. Not as much as a penis, but more than you’d imagine, for as the romantic mood and physical stimulus continue, the
internal
clitoris starts to engorge, as well.
This tissue, called the
corpus cavernosa
, is the same engorgeable tissue found within the penis shaft. Blood flow into the internal clitoris causes engorgement and deeper arousal. Blood flow here is not insignificant, because the full range of the internal clitoral tissues, the
corpus cavernosa
, is intriguing: This tissue lassos around the
Which one do you think would clog up quicker? Makes you think, doesn’t it, guys?
A study of 3,000 men by the National Institute on Aging found that men with higher blood pressure had double the risk of developing a useless tool between their legs than those with lower blood pressure.
These discoveries have also debunked the old impotence myth that men lose their sex drive as they age. In 2007, the
New England Journal of Medicine
published a report on the largest sex study of seniors ever conducted; it showed that healthy old timers often feel as frisky as anyone else. It’s the sick ones who need a little pill. Doctors now believe that older men lose their mojo because they are more likely to have diseases that compromise their blood circulation, like heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, all results of eating too much meat.
In other words, going flaccid is not a natural part of the aging process.
All this is good news for plant-strong eaters because if a food is heart healthy, it is also pants healthy. So if you want to keep raising the flag, snuggle up to libido-friendly fruits and veggies. Foods that come from animals just clog your arteries and keep blood from flowing to the place you need it most: your Eiffel Tower.
23
Plants Light Up Your Love Life: Women
N ot long ago I received this testimonial from a new adapter to the plant-strong life who happens to be sixty-nine years old. “Dear Rip: Sorry to make this R rated. But I have to tell you I have been on plant-based eating for about 11 months now. I am 100 pounds lighter. I am 69 years old and I have not had sex for years with my husband. The last month I just can’t get enough of him. I am convinced the blood flow has reached new and exciting places, thanks to the Esselstyns’ books and DVDs. It’s like getting married all over again.”
It’s true for women as well as men! Plants improve your enjoyment of sex. To prove it, I have handed over the reins for this chapter to my sister, Jane Esselstyn. Jane has been teaching sex education to middle-school boys and girls for more than eighteen years using an open, humorous, and approachable style. She’s also a mother of three, writes a blog called
Puberty from Head to Toe
, and is a plant-strong cooking genius. Take it away, Jane!
For women, the term “sexual health” could simply refer to a rocking, healthy sex life, but it also refers to her body and the systems associated with her gender: breasts, uterus, endometrium, body fat, and vascular system. Most people don’t realize that applying a plant-strong diet to the complicated equation of women, sex, and health engenders exciting results.
As discussed in the previous chapter, a major benefit of eating a plant-based diet is blood flow. Blood flow is essential for a penis to achieve an erection. Similarly, blood flow helps women in different areas, in different ways.
Front and center in this blood-flow discussion is the clitoris. In GPS terms, this little bundle of eight thousand nerves, this doorbell of desire, resides just south of the pubic bone, just ahead of the vaginal and urethral openings, and is housed between the genital labia (lips).
The clitoris is only the beginning of the story. This external button is literally only about one-tenth the size of the equipment within. When a woman is aroused, the external clitoris, also known as the glans, engorges with blood. Not as much as a penis, but more than you’d imagine, for as the romantic mood and physical stimulus continue, the
internal
clitoris starts to engorge, as well.
This tissue, called the
corpus cavernosa
, is the same engorgeable tissue found within the penis shaft. Blood flow into the internal clitoris causes engorgement and deeper arousal. Blood flow here is not insignificant, because the full range of the internal clitoral tissues, the
corpus cavernosa
, is intriguing: This tissue lassos around the
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