Get your mojo working with our expert advice on reclaiming your libido
Women's Health Specialist
If your libido lags at times, don't worry, it often comes roaring back. To keep it consistent, try stimulating your brain first. Read erotic literature, watch sexy movies, investigate self-pleasure aids such as lubricants or vibrators. Your brain will get you going.
If you've been in a relationship for a long time, you and your partner may be relating sexually in stale ways. Sex needs to be fun and novel. Go away together and rediscover each other, learn about sensual massage, make it a priority to rejuvenate your sex life. Midlife is the perfect time to reinvent yourself sexually and surrender to your feelings. Menopausal women have been made to believe they're not sexual, but many can have the best sex of their lives after menopause.
— Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Wisdom of Menopause (Bantam, 2001)
Naturopath
Loss of libido is often brought on by hormonal changes that occur during menopause — specifically, a dip in testosterone production. In these cases, I usually start with the herb damiana, which may help to stimulate sexual arousal. I use damiana in tincture form and often combine it with panax ginseng, another herb that may help stimulate sexual arousal and could also increase testosterone levels.
If that's not effective, the next step is to try the steroid hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is a precursor to hormones like estrogen and androgen. I start my patients with 15 to 20 mg of DHEA, but only if blood results reveal a deficiency. If you decide to take DHEA, talk to your doctor about monitoring your levels of the hormone by regularly testing your blood.
— Jane Guiltinan, N.D., director of the Bastyr University Natural Medicine Institute for Women's Health
Sex Therapist
Some of the best ways to improve your sex drive have nothing to do with sex. One of the most important things is to have an interest you feel passionate about — even if it's needlework. It can be anything from social activism or working out at the gym to dancing or a love of the arts. You need that passion to keep you energized.
Reevaluate your living space to be sure it's conducive to having sex. If your bedroom is cluttered with a computer, TV, office items, and exercise equipment — all of which are huge sexual turnoffs — redo the space so it's more inviting, incorporate peach and other pastel and skin-tone colors in your paint and bed linens, and decorate with art you find erotic. It could be a sensual painting, a goddess statue, or anything else that speaks to you personally.
— Barbara Keesling, Ph.D., author of Sexual Healing (Hunter House, 2006)
By: Northrup, Christiane, Guiltinan, Jane, Keesling, Barbara, Natural Health, Sep2006
If your libido lags at times, don't worry, it often comes roaring back. To keep it consistent, try stimulating your brain first. Read erotic literature, watch sexy movies, investigate self-pleasure aids such as lubricants or vibrators. Your brain will get you going.
If you've been in a relationship for a long time, you and your partner may be relating sexually in stale ways. Sex needs to be fun and novel. Go away together and rediscover each other, learn about sensual massage, make it a priority to rejuvenate your sex life. Midlife is the perfect time to reinvent yourself sexually and surrender to your feelings. Menopausal women have been made to believe they're not sexual, but many can have the best sex of their lives after menopause.
— Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Wisdom of Menopause (Bantam, 2001)
Naturopath
Loss of libido is often brought on by hormonal changes that occur during menopause — specifically, a dip in testosterone production. In these cases, I usually start with the herb damiana, which may help to stimulate sexual arousal. I use damiana in tincture form and often combine it with panax ginseng, another herb that may help stimulate sexual arousal and could also increase testosterone levels.
If that's not effective, the next step is to try the steroid hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is a precursor to hormones like estrogen and androgen. I start my patients with 15 to 20 mg of DHEA, but only if blood results reveal a deficiency. If you decide to take DHEA, talk to your doctor about monitoring your levels of the hormone by regularly testing your blood.
— Jane Guiltinan, N.D., director of the Bastyr University Natural Medicine Institute for Women's Health
Sex Therapist
Some of the best ways to improve your sex drive have nothing to do with sex. One of the most important things is to have an interest you feel passionate about — even if it's needlework. It can be anything from social activism or working out at the gym to dancing or a love of the arts. You need that passion to keep you energized.
Reevaluate your living space to be sure it's conducive to having sex. If your bedroom is cluttered with a computer, TV, office items, and exercise equipment — all of which are huge sexual turnoffs — redo the space so it's more inviting, incorporate peach and other pastel and skin-tone colors in your paint and bed linens, and decorate with art you find erotic. It could be a sensual painting, a goddess statue, or anything else that speaks to you personally.
— Barbara Keesling, Ph.D., author of Sexual Healing (Hunter House, 2006)
By: Northrup, Christiane, Guiltinan, Jane, Keesling, Barbara, Natural Health, Sep2006
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