The Rationale of Sexercise

l Sex is an instantaneous cure for mild depression, as it releases endorphins, or ‘feel-gooder’s, in the blood.

l During lovemaking, women produce double the amount of estrogen, which makes the hair shiny and the skin smooth.

l The release of the hormone estrogen helps prevent osteoporosis.

l Sex helps the insomniac: it deepens and lengthens sleep. It is 10 times more effective than valium.

l Half-an-hour of passionate sex is good exercise too. Dr Bhamgara explains that skeletal muscles, which constitute 42 per cent of our total body mass, are under our control, unlike the muscles of stomach, heart, lungs and other organs and glands. He points out that by working our skeletal muscles, we benefit the involuntary, organic and glandular muscles, and all the trillions of cells of the body, which form the various systems of the body.

l An exercise bike may help burn a maximum of 600 calories in one hours, while passionate sex uses up the same number of calories in only half-an-hour.

l Sex reduces the hostility of the Type A personality.

l Nervous tension, panic and anxiety are best antidoted by love-making.

l Like laughter, sex also burns up adrenalin, the stress hormone.

l It boosts the immune system and builds resistance to chronic cold, flu etc.

l It also helps one cope with stress.

Interestingly, Dr Bhamgara points out that in the ‘World Stroke Congress’ in Melbourne, the doctors included prolonged lovemaking in the same category as jogging or brisk walking. Case studies established that even in men past the age of 65, testosterone levels rose with love-making. Dr Bhamgara says that exercise of any sort also impacts the sex life positively.

I pass on to you his wishes for me, which he

inscribed in his dedication of The Rationale of Exercise to me: ‘‘May this prove to be an inspiration for perspiration’’.