Can eating certain food help your menopause low libido?
Food sources to help boost your perimenopause passion!
Positive Pause believes in the power of nutrition to help you along this bumpy road to help your menopause symptoms. May food bring you love to lift your perimenopausal desires!
Phytoestrogenic plant compounds that mimic the effect of oestrogen may help. Eat more: Linseed, edamame beans, tofu, tempeh, and soy milk contain
Zinc-rich oysters, kidney beans, lean red meat, and liver. Zinc plays a part in producing sex drive and boosting testosterone.
Magnesium is helpful with many menopause symptoms, find it in small quantities in kale, rocket, Swiss chard, almonds, and seeds, they are all good sources of magnesium, which works alongside zinc to increase sex drive.
Protein and amino acids Eat more: oily fish, eggs, nuts, dairy products, beetroot, and bananas. These are natural dopamine-boosting foods to help lift levels in your brain, treat your flagging libido and help increase blood flow to your sexual organs. Find it in our old favourite SMASH - salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and halibut. Snack on pumpkin, chia and sesame seeds, walnuts and, well, just about all nuts.
Chillies help release feel-good endorphins, speed up your metabolism and increase blood flow to the parts that matter!
Dark chocolate (over 70% cocoa) We love chocolate, so the suggestion that it might improve your desire is worth considering. It’s suggested that it may help increase levels of the pleasure chemical dopamine in the brain, lifting your mood, helping you to relax and improve your body’s reaction to stimulation.
Pomegranate: linked with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, it may lower cortisol levels and increase testosterone. Sprinkle seeds onto cereal, and salads, mix with a fruit salad or drink juice daily.
Saffron: Savvy, wealthy Romans sprinkled saffron on their marriage beds as it contains picrocrocin, a chemical that helps your body become more sensitive to touch.
All areas of your body need water to help retain moisture and as vaginal dryness in menopause is a common culprit to create a curse in the pleasure zone, do ensure that you drink plenty of water too.