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We all know by now that orgasms are a great stress reliever. It builds up all the tension in your body, only to release it in one go, zapping you of all energy and making you want to sleep in bliss. But did you know there are many other health benefits to orgasms and sex, benefits which only until recently doctors and medical experts are discovering all the time? Here are a few of the benefits that you may be able to get from sex.

While you’re extremely relaxed in the afterglow following an orgasm, your heart races and your blood pressure rises during the act. You sweat, and your breath speeds up. It sounds like a workout at the gym, doesn’t it? Well, it’s a workout in the comfort of your bedroom, or wherever else it is that you and your partner like to do it. You can burn up to 100 calories an hour from vigorous sex, although this number varies from person to person depending on their weight and overall health, as well as things like physical exertion during sex. While 100 calories an hour isn’t enough that you should give up your gym membership, it should be another incentive to hit the sheets.

So, sex and the ensuing orgasm tends to put most of us in a pretty good mood, but now a study is being conducted that links sex to alleviating depression.

Forget pain relievers - try self-medicating with sex first. Sex releases endorphins, which help manage pain. In fact, with sex it’s possible to decrease pain by up to 70%. Who wouldn’t take this over acetaminophen? Sex can also help relieve that migraine, even though for some people sex triggers this kind of severe headache.

A recent study in the British Medical Journal revealed that men who regularly engaged in sex had a decreased mortality rate than those who didn’t. Regular is defined as twice a week, according to the study. As if there wasn’t enough incentive to have sex before! The study took 1000 Welsh men and kept track of them for a decade. They found that those who had sex less than once a month were more likely to die than those who had sex often. In fact, those men who had sex infrequently were twice as likely to die as those who had frequent sex. Researchers are still trying to determine why this is so.

More specifically, research is being done to prove that sex can decrease chances of certain types of cancer, such as prostate cancer, and heart disease. Again, sex twice a week can improve your chance of survival.

So if you needed an excuse to have sex before, you’ve got several reasons to now. While you’re at it, why not add a little something? Try TRX, a supplement in capsule form that increases the testosterone that slowly dwindles over the years. Side effect free, expect a supped-up libido as well as more energy and better concentration, to name just a few benefits.