As an acupuncturist and herbalist specializing in sexual health, I treat women and men looking to have better sex. Acupuncture is great in bringing blood flow to the sex organs and balancing hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. If we want to address the underlying mechanics of consistently great sex though, we need to think about diet.

Great sex is more than finding someone who will touch your genitals. And desire is not simply a psychological phenomenon. The health of a person’s vascular and nervous systems, as well as hormonal balance all greatly affect how they will experience sex. For women it will affect their ability to orgasm, and for men it will affect the strength of erection and ejaculation. For both it will affect libido, sexual pleasure and quality of orgasm. So, with patients, we address the meridians, as they are known in traditional Chinese medicine, and we also adopt a diet which nourishes great sex. Such a diet ensures that blood vessels are delivering good blood supply to the genitals, that nerves send messages of pleasure from the genitals to the brain, and that sex hormones are optimized for arousal and pleasure. For this reason, great sex involves treating ones body kindly with food.