Will ensuring quality sleep help with sexual well-being?

  The change of lifestyle has significantly shortened the time of sleep. Whether young people, or middle-aged and elderly people addicted to play computer, Internet, or play cell phone, brush WeChat, stay up late is a common thing. The emergence of smart phones, more people tend to alienate each other, people put interest, attention, into no feelings on the computer and cell phones, rather than the pillow men and women. According to the bed to play cell phones. Do not take into account the other half of the bed sexy and provocative, when you finish reading weibo, perhaps the other half has long been sleepy, difficult to have sex.  Sleep is the main way to eliminate physical fatigue, restore strength, energy, repair body tissue. Do not underestimate the necessary 7 to 8 hours of sleep per day, during sleep the body will produce antibodies to enhance immunity. It repairs DNA, synthesizes, secretes and regulates many hormones to promote growth and development, etc. For example, the penis, in a night with alternating light and deep sleep and unconscious erection 4 to 6 times, so that the cavernous body repeatedly filled with blood to get enough nutrients, to maintain normal sexual function has an important role.  If you stay up late at night or sleep irregularly, sleeping less than 5 hours a night for a week, for men, androgen levels will be significantly reduced, resulting in a significant reduction in night and morning erections, or even disappear, which may cause erectile dysfunction in the long run. For women. For women, it will affect the secretion function of sex hormones of the ovaries, resulting in changes in hormone levels in the body. Further, it is manifested as a decrease in libido and sexual disorders.  The Chinese medicine believes that sleep is the heart of the main, Yang into the yin is sleep, that is, the daytime Yang Qi invigorated, support the internal organs activities, especially the heart and soul active, to the night Yang Qi latent in the body, the internal organs activities in the rest, low level of work idle state, in order to facilitate the next day Yang Qi re-generation active, the internal organs to restore the normal level of activity. This alternate working state of Yang Qi in the day and night is common to many animals, including humans, and is the proper rule of the biological clock.  Evening, especially after 23:00 (Ziqi), to the second half of the night, is the best time for Yang Qi latent rest, at this time the full deep sleep, to be able to protect Yang Qi. Long-term stay up late will make Yang Qi continue to be hyperactive, imbalance of Yin and Yang, Yang Qi dark depletion and lack of essence damage, the natural decline of sexual function. It is interesting to find that those who worked the night shift and came to the hospital the next day to check the semen routine, their sperm vitality have different degrees of decline, fully illustrating the less sleep injury qi. Only, sleep enough, heart and kidney water and fire that is to help, the balance of yin and Yang, energy, in order to maintain good sexual function.  The United States a 11,000 people involved in the survey found that 60% of new mothers because of the lack of sleep and low libido, another 84% of couples believe that fatigue and sleepiness took away their sexual interest, and even affect family harmony. If the child is younger than 5 years old, the parents lack the most sleep and have the lowest frequency of sex; if their sleep time is extended, the situation can be significantly improved.  Recently, the journal Human Beginnings reported that David Kambak of the University of Michigan Medical School in the United States? Dr. Kambak and a team of researchers at the University got 171 young women to participate in a study. The results showed that for women, getting enough sleep helps maintain a healthy libido and sexual response, and improves the chances of having sex – on average, each additional hour of sleep for volunteers increased the willingness to have sex with a partner by 14%; compared to women who slept less, women who slept longer on average also had higher vaginal sensitivity, were more likely to become sexually aroused, and were less likely to encounter barriers; occasionally poor sleep quality had little effect on the next day’s orgasm situation.  Even the Lancet, the world’s most authoritative academic journal in medicine, also said that the average number of sex lives in the UK among people aged 16 to 44 is only 5 times a month, and compared to the last century, the frequency of sex has dropped by a full 20%, one of the culprits of this housing crisis is the electronic products that accompany bedtime.  So, in addition to overall health, mood, and relationship status of the couple, sleep is also an important potential factor affecting women’s sex drive. Some doctors in the United States have made improving the quality of sleep as one of the remedies to improve libido. Of course this is not absolute, women should not simply take sleep as a magic pill to promote sex, because, too much is the opposite, long sleep lazy bed also hurt the gas.  For the sake of physical health, but also to maintain a harmonious regular sexual well-being, then, please adjust your sleep habits and quality. Especially one hour before bedtime this time is very critical, pay attention to the following issues: 1, do not exercise intensely, do not participate in a lively discussion of issues, do not drink tea and coffee, do not read the swinging TV and novels; 2, may wish to take a bath with warm water, or hot water soaking feet, so that the whole body lower extremity blood vessel expansion, limb relaxation, reduce brain congestion; 3, a glass of hot milk, can reduce the symptoms of poor sleep.  4, turn off the power of cell phones, computers, cut off WlFl. Go to bed early on time and close your eyes to brew sleep.  5, go to bed without thinking about the problem, about the next day’s work arrangements, before and after work to consider finished.  6, physical intimacy between the couple, to meet the skin hunger for warmth, such as the male embrace the female to sleep, hand in hand embrace, stacked shares and sleep, a sense of security.  7, such as within 10 to 15 minutes did not fall asleep, immediately get out of bed, quiet, adjust breathing, browse the plain newspaper novel until there is sleep.  8, regardless of the depth of sleep at night, wake up in the morning on time to let the alarm clock to wake themselves up, do not snooze during the day, sleep on time at night, to establish a stable biological clock.  When two people go to bed at the same time, turn off the lights early, even if you can’t fall asleep right away, snuggle up, tell each other what’s on your mind, or, when the mood strikes, dry fire, linger a bit, are the best way to enhance mutual emotional communication, promote sleep, so sexual well-being and sleep of the positive interaction is easy to establish.