Sex is wonderful, but sometimes it can threaten your health and even cause sudden death. Sudden sexual death refers to an accidental death caused by sexual behavior, also called "sudden sexual death". It includes not only sudden death during orgasm, but also death after sexual intercourse. Before this disease occurs, both parties have no warning and mental preparation. Therefore, preventive measures are often lacking and rescue is not possible.

The following are several causes that may lead to sudden death during sexual life. Middle-aged and elderly people should be especially vigilant.

1. Overworked or long-term separation

If you have sex immediately after long-distance travel, long-term physical labor, or a reunion between husband and wife after a long absence, your heart and blood system may be exhausted, leading to sudden death. In these cases, it's not too late to get intimate after you've relieved yourself of fatigue.

2. Suffering from basic diseases

For patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and other heart diseases, the physiological regulation function of the organs is no longer in a normal state. Sexual impulse can highly excite the central nervous system, causing a sudden rise in blood pressure, cardiac overload, and easily inducing myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction. Bleeding, etc., resulting in sudden death. These people should not be overly excited during sex. If necessary, they should take nitroglycerin or antipsychotics and other drugs before sex.

3. Having sex after drinking

Some people think that alcohol can help with sex, but alcohol itself can also accelerate blood flow and increase blood pressure. Coupled with the stimulation of sexual excitement, it can easily induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, you should not drink alcohol, drink stimulant drinks such as coffee, or smoke a lot before sex.

4. Extramarital sex

At this time, the person concerned will be mentally nervous, afraid of being discovered by others, or emotionally excited, resulting in great psychological pressure and emotional instability, which may induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and sudden death.

5. There is a huge age difference

If the age difference between men and women is too large, the older person's heart rate is likely to rise rapidly, which leads to sympathetic nerve excitement, vasoconstriction and blood pressure increase. In extreme cases, blood vessels may even rupture, leading to sudden death. The greater the age difference between the parties, the higher the chance of sudden death.

6. Effects of drugs

In order to increase sexual desire, some people abuse aphrodisiac drugs, which may cause excessive sexual impulses, excessive force during sexual intercourse, violent sexual movements, and sudden death.

7. Incorrect sexual postures or habits

When some couples hug and kiss, they put their hands around the middle part of the outside of each other's neck. The baroreceptors in the carotid sinus are compressed. In mild cases, it can cause the heart rate to slow down and blood pressure to drop. In severe cases, it can lead to reflex cardiac arrest and death.

If you want to maintain sexual function, you should pay attention to these points in your daily diet

1. Ensure a balanced diet

To meet the needs of growth and development of human sexual organs and maintain normal physiological and sexual functions. If you are frail and sick, your sexual life will inevitably be affected.

2. Some ingredients in food are directly related to sexual function

For example, vitamin A compounds (except retinoic acid) can maintain the normal function of the reproductive system; zinc has an important impact on the development of the human body and sexual organs. Zinc deficiency can cause growth and development retardation and low reproductive function. 

3. The impact of food choice on sexual function

Choosing foods that can regulate qi and blood, nourish the kidneys and strengthen yang can effectively enhance male sexual function and prevent and treat sexual dysfunction. Foods with this effect include shrimp, walnut kernels, roosters, animal whips, yams, wolfberry seeds, leek seeds, Chinese leek, Sichuan peppercorns, epimedium, etc. There are also the following types:

Animal kidneys: The kidneys of pigs, dogs, sheep, and cows all have the effect of nourishing kidney qi and replenishing the essence. For example, sheep kidneys are sweet and warm, which can nourish kidney qi; pig kidneys are salty, help kidney qi, and benefit the bladder; dog kidneys are good for enhancing sexual function. The functional effect is better; the testicles of some animals can cure impotence, spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea and other diseases.

Sea cucumber: nourishes the kidneys, replenishes essence, aphrodisiacs, and cures withering. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", sea cucumber is sweet and salty in taste, nourishes the kidneys, replenishes the essence, absorbs urine, aphrodisiacs and treats impotence. Its nature is warm and tonic, and it can nourish the enemy, hence the name sea cucumber. The sea is rich in arginine and zinc, which have good therapeutic effects on impotence.

Honey: There is a plant hormone similar to human pituitary hormone, which has the effect of activating gonads, and the sugar in honey is very beneficial to the formation of semen.

Eggs: Contain eight kinds of essential amino acids for the human body, which can strengthen Jingqi, improve semen quality, and enhance sperm motility. It is also the best food to restore physical strength after sex.

Kelp: Very nutritious, containing iodine, iron, calcium, mannitol, carotene and other ingredients needed by the human body. According to dietotherapy experts: In the cold winter, kelp also has the function of preventing cold and aphrodisiac.

4. The relationship between drinking and sexual function

A small amount of drinking has certain benefits to the body. Long-term excessive drinking can cause damage to the oral cavity, gastric mucosa, liver, cardiovascular, respiratory tract, lungs, etc. It can also damage nerves, vision, and reduce memory and intelligence. Fetuses conceived after drunken intercourse are often malformed or mentally retarded. Some people call them "alcohol babies." Alcohol has an inhibitory effect on sexual function and can cause impotence, premature ejaculation, menstrual cramps, etc.