Being overweight can affect normal hormone levels in both men and women and reduce blood flow. Studies have shown that walking just 30 minutes a day, or taking other moderate exercise, can help restore sexual desire and performance.
Strengthening the pelvic floor muscles has major benefits for both sexes. For men, it enhances rigidity during erections and helps keep blood from leaving the penis. For women, exercising the pelvic floor helps builds the neural pathways between the brain and the vagina that can mean more frequent, more intense orgasms.
Smoking damages arteries, affecting circulation. It affects a man’s ability to get and maintain an erection and impedes both men’s and women’s ability to orgasm.
It has been clinically shown that men who get less than five hours of sleep a night for a week have reduced levels of testosterone, the libido hormone. Not enough sleep also affects men and women’s mood and sex drive.
Studies have shown that people who see themselves as unattractive are more likely to report a drop in sexual desire. Focus on what you like about your body rather than what you don’t.
If you think it’s possible that an undiagnosed medical condition is affecting your sex life, you should seek help from your doctor.