Healing with Sexual Energy: Sex for Health, Relationships and Spirituality By Walter Last, Part 4:
Further evidence of a lasting post-orgasm hangover comes from sexually exhausted male rats. The number of androgen receptors in the hypothalamus declines, reducing the effectiveness of testosterone and changing sexual behavior. These changes last for about seven days, corresponding to a lack of libido of the rats.
In addition to serving as a sexual brake, prolactin also affects our moods and behavior somewhat like a hormone of resignation. For example caged wild monkeys initially had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol but gradually prolactin levels rose as they became resigned to their fate. Prolactin levels were highest after seven months. With raised prolactin levels they do not mate, which looks like the same effect that we see in long-term relationships without close oxytocin-producing bonding.
The Coolidge-Effect
In experiments with rats it has been observed that after vigorous copulation with a new partner, male rats soon completely ignore this partner, but when a new female is introduced, they immediately are revitalized - at least sufficiently to become sexually active once more. This can be repeated again and again until the male rat is completely exhausted.
This phenomenon has been called the “Coolidge Effect” after an American president. On a visit to a farm his wife had been shown a rooster who could copulate with his hens all day-long day after day. She liked that idea and asked the farmer to let the president know about this. After hearing it, President Coolidge thought for a moment and asked: ”Does he do that with the same hen?” “No, sir” answered the farmer. “Please tell that to Mrs. Coolidge” said the president.
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Coffee, Part One
Usually when people add milk and sugar to coffee this can give people problems because the coffee amount is too much. However, when you start slow, and reverse it by adding small amounts of coffee to the milk and sugar, slowly increasing the coffee amount as your body tolerates it better!
Coffee has a number of health benefits! It provides energy, enhanced alertness, concentration and an overall feeling of happiness. Coffee contains large amounts of magnesium, which helps you feel calm, B vitamins and also acts as an antioxidant which helps protect cells from damage!
Some say “Coffee gives me jitters. I feel anxious after having coffee.” or “Coffee gives me headaches.” There are a lot more reasons people give when discussing their inability to handle and enjoy their coffee drink. Yes, it is true that coffee can cause problems such as the ones just described. Just like everything, context matters and there are a bunch of variables to take into consideration when trying to understand why something isn’t working. Explore what the real reason could be when you feel coffee isn’t working for you, but against you.
Lets explore why coffee might be harming, rather than helping:
1. Black Coffee by Itself (with no meal): Coffee revs up your engine (bodies metabolic rate) and this increases the bodies need for glucose. As a result, it can cause blood sugar dysregulation, which will cause stress hormones (such as adrenaline) to rise, often contributing to the jittery effect that you feel taking place.
2. Drinking too Fast: Drinking coffee too fast can cause the body to react negatively. Regardless of it being good for you, it can overload the system and bring about negative outcomes.
Video of, Buster Keaton from the motion picture "My Wife's Relations", 1922
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Healing with Sexual Energy: Sex for Health, Relationships and Spirituality by Walter Last, Part 3:
Symptoms associated with excess Prolactin:
Women:
Loss of libido
Mood changes / depression
Hostility, anxiety
Headache
Menopausal symptoms, even when estrogen is sufficient
Signs of increased testosterone levels
Weight gain
Intercourse may become painful because of vaginal dryness
Men:
Loss of libido
Mood changes / depression
Impotence
Headache
Infertility
Decreased testosterone levels
Weight gain
Initially, during the honeymoon period of our relationship, we remain strongly bonded by high oxytocin levels, and quickly overcome our hormonal blues by having more sex. Initially sex stimulates us to crave for more sex. This leads to rapid rises and falls in dopamine levels and corresponding rapid emotional fluctuations in our relationship. Later we become less and less interested in sex with our partner (perhaps because we subconsciously begin to associate him or her with the “lows” of the cycle, or perhaps because we grow tired of being used as a fix, and therefore feel less attraction), and now we try to prop up our dopamine level by becoming addicted to some kind of food or drug, or by becoming interested in a new sexual partner. Basically this type of behavior is the same for humans, primates, mammals and reptiles because it originates from the primitive part of our brain.
Photograph from, the motion picture "Curse of the Faceless Man", 1958
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