When Dr. Oz said healthy, monogamous sex can help you lose weight, viewers wrote in with lots of questions.
First, Dr. Oz wants to clear up a misconception that sex burns a lot of calories. In fact, sex only burns about 25, equal to half a slice of bread.
Instead, Dr. Oz says the real value of meaningful sex—not recreational sex—comes from the release of a hormone called oxytocin, which makes you feel community, love and empathy. "That is incredibly important because besides lowering your blood pressure, what it does is it tells your gut not to send signals to the brain to eat. So it's a wonderful tool to get you where you want to be," Dr. Oz says. Losing weight then tends to increase your sex drive, he says.
And, losing weight improves the sex lives of men in another way. "If you lose 35 pounds, if you're a male, you are gaining one inch of penis length," he says. Often when a man is carrying a lot of extra weight, Dr. Oz says a fat bundle builds up and starts to surround the shaft. As a man drops the weight, that fat starts to recede.
"I've been doing this show 21 years," Oprah says. "I always love to hear something I've never heard before, and I've never heard that before."
its all bs.. basically its like if you lose weight overall you look more toned, fit, maybe some areas of your body looks a lil longer.. here's more bs.. you all need to have sex 200 x a year.. thats like doing it every other day.. ok i should stop clicking these random links ppl send me..
Question 10: According to Dr. Oz, how often should you have sex? A) Once a week B) Twice a week C) 10 times a month D) 200 times a year or more
The correct answer is D.
"If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years," Dr. Oz says. He bases the number on a study done at Duke University that surveyed people on the amount and quality of sex they had. "They looked at what happened to folks that are having a lot of intercourse over time, and the fact is, it correlated."
Among the benefits of having sex often, Dr. Oz says, is that it can prove that your body is functioning as it is supposed to. "But in addition, having sex with someone that you care for deeply is one of the ways we achieve that Zen experience that we all crave as human beings," he says. "It's really a spiritual event for folks when they're with someone they love and they can consummate it with sexual activity … seems to offer some survival benefit."
I'll tell my girlfriend that for every time she doesn't have sex with me, I am literally losing years of my life. She already is genetically destined to live longer than me, so she can't refuse...
Oprah is atrocious. Worse than Tyra banks, 'coz at least Tyra isn't fat. Both are pretty terrible though.
This really doesn't make sense. Especially for those people who can't LOSE 35 pounds; if I lost 35 pounds, I'd be excessively underweight. I'm already only like 10-12% body fat ~~;;
I'm deeply in love with me and care a lot about myself, so according to this my physiologic age is steadily decreasing and I should be immortal right? OMFG great NEWS!
The weight loss from the physical activity really depends on the kind of sex you're having. If it's really er intense, while you won't be burning a whole lot during the activity itself you'll incite an effect known as EPOC (Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) that essentially causes you to burn fat for hours after the activity.
It is for this reason that high intensity interval training (in the form of sprints and so forth) are believe to be superior for the purpose of removing subcutaneous fat.
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