How Yogurt Could Impact Your Sex Drive
First off, your body needs to have a healthy amount of ”good” bacteria in the digestive tract, and many yogurts are made using active, good bacteria. One of the words you’ll be hearing more of in relation to yogurt is ”probiotics.” Probiotic, which literally means ”for life,” refers to living organisms that can result in a health benefit when eaten in adequate amounts.
And let us not forget that yogurt comes from milk. So yogurt eaters will also get a dose of animal protein (about 9 grams per 6-ounce serving), plus several other nutrients found in dairy foods, like calcium, vitamin B-2, B-12, potassium, and magnesium.
In fact, the health benefits of yogurt are so impressive that many health-conscious people make it a daily habit. Here are five possible health benefits of having a yogurt a day.
There’s a medical truism that states: “You’re only as healthy as your colon.” When eating yogurt, you care for your colon in two ways. First, yogurt contains lactobacteria, intestines-friendly bacterial cultures that foster a healthy colon, and even lower the risk of colon cancer. Lactobacteria, especially acidophilus, promotes the growth of healthy bacteria in the colon and reduces the conversion of bile into carcinogenic bile acids. The more of these intestines-friendly bacteria that are present in your colon, the lower the chance of colon diseases. Basically, the friendly bacteria in yogurt seems to deactivate harmful substances (such as nitrates and nitrites before they are converted to nitrosamines) before they can become carcinogenic.
Red Bull might give you wings, but yogurt gives you bigger cojones. Male mice that ate a diet supplemented with yogurt grew larger testicles. The change was dramatic enough to give them a distinctive “mouse swagger” as they compensated for their greater endowment.
The study, by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was intended to examine the effects of yogurt on obesity. Previous research had shown that yogurt could prevent age-related weight gain.
Researchers fed one group of mice a junk food diet—high in fat, and low in fiber and nutrients. A second group ate standard mouse food. One half of each group also received vanilla-flavored yogurt.
At the end of the study, the testicles of the mice that ate yogurt were five percent heavier than those of the standard-diet group, and 15 percent heavier than the junk food group.
These changes were not just superficial. Yogurt-eating mice inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring. Female mice also benefitted from eating yogurt, with larger litters and more successful weaning of their pups.
Researchers think that probiotic microbes found in yogurt helped make the mice slimmer and healthier, which encouraged growth of the testicles.
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