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Hi there! Belah here. Thought fruits and veggies weren’t sexy? Think again!Today I have with me Dr. Joel Kahn of drjoelkahn.com and author of The Whole Heart Solution. Dr. Kahn is practicing medical doctor who specializes in cardiology and gives quick, but important keys to support your sexual health. He believes in a holistic therapeutic approach more than just looking at the individual components. He gives pointers on how to achieve a better lifestyle to support a great sex life, and how wives can support their husbands in this journey toward optimal health. Listen as he explains practical insights on making your health work in the bedroom!

 

You’ll Discover:

• That we can drastically change what your genes are doing in a very short time by embracing a healthy lifestyle
• How to burn 3 – 5x more calories even when you’re not exercising with this one tip!
• How erectile dysfunction could be a warning sign to bigger problems.
• How having quality, loving relationships are critically important in overall health
• How loneliness and isolation and lack of connectivity can negatively affect your health
• Specific hormones are released just after sex and help you sleep. It’s a scientific fact.
• How those people who are enjoying good quality and regular sexual relationships generally tend to be healthy people with optimistic outlooks
• What the endothelium is and how vital its role is in our everyday health
• The six key pointers on how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle
• Exercising is a key component to a healthy life, but you don’t have to feel like running a marathon is your only option. Walking. Just standing instead of sitting is helpful.
• Certain foods that are specifically helpful to your sex life: watermelon, pine nuts, cacao powder, arugula, maca powder

 

Quotes:

Food is medicine. Medicine is food. -Hippocrates

The source of all health is in the gut. -Hippocrates

Your fork is your fate. Your dinner plate is your destiny. -Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

 

Resources Mentioned:

The Environmental Working Group (www.ewg.org)

Forks over Knives documentary (http://www.forksoverknives.com/)

The Clean 15 and Dirty Dozen lists (http://www.fullyraw.com/dirty-dozen-clean-15)

The Coronary Calcium Scan to be an early predictor of heart disease (http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/cardiac-calcium-scoring)

The Whole Heart Solution by Dr. Joel Kahn

Dead Execs Don’t Get Bonuses by Dr. Joel Kahn

 

Tweetables:

• We’re beasts that don’t like to change our habits.
• The healthiest people in the world have stable, long-term relationships.
• Hormesis: the scientific way of saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
• Every sexual response is a lot of blood flow shifting to the areas that are being stimulated.
• Standing beats the crap out of sitting.
• Smoking can cause sexual dysfunction.
• Don’t underestimate the power of the salad.
• The body has amazing restorative possibilities if you stop blocking its efforts with the  lifestyle.
• You do not have to train for marathons to claim that you’re fit.
• Diabetes shortens your life, shortens the quality of life including the sexual aspect.

 

Thanks for listening! I hope you are encouraged to live in wholehearted intimacy!

Love,

Belah

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