This is a story about love cycles, which are not silly things moonstruck couples ride on the boardwalk of hotels They are rhythms that link your sexual behavior to your hormones.
And Winnifred B. Cutler, Ph.D., found them. She discovered that regular sex is good for you. It orchestrates a woman's body biologically, regulating the flow of hormones that make it fertile and increase well-being. It also props up testosterone levels in men.
The time to embrace is once a week. Weekly intercourse--but not less frequently-- tunes the menstrual cycle to 29.5 days, optimal for fertility and general endocrine health.
Here's the tricky part: For Cutler, the findings mandate monogamy. Only committed relationships allow sex so regularly. If regular sex is not possible, then it's better to abstain altogether, because intermittent sex drives hormones wild, sending estrogen to lower lows (and higher highs) than the more moderate lows of celibacy, Cutler claims in a report, Love Cycles, the Science of intimacy. (Lows are responsible for bone loss, depression, heart disease.)
Banish the thought that you can keep yourself hormonally humming by your own hand. It isn't the orgasm but the presence of another person, preferably male, that does the trick. Males add pheromones: The odors fire off nerve signals to the brain and alter endocrine patterns.
Riding the cycles of love is definitely an indoor sport.
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