Like a car, your body has a “check engine” light to alert you when something isn’t quite right with your overall health. Your body has many indicators, and your penis is one of them.
Like the dipstick to your vehicle’s oil reservoir, your penis can clue you in when it’s time to tune in and tune up the rest of the machine. And just like caring for your automobile, you don’t wait until it breaks down on the side of the road before you give it what it needs to keep you going.
Below, we’ll discuss why penis health is important, the ways you can keep yours in good working order, and how girth enhancement can help with some aspects.
“Men’s Health”
The term “men’s health” includes everything from the hair on your head to the skin on your feet, penis included. You do not want to lose its functionality in providing pleasure or aiding in waste elimination and reproduction.
Penile Health
Penile health focuses on the shape, function, and longevity of your penis and all its capabilities. Luckily, what benefits your overall health is good for your penis too. Maintaining healthy lifestyle elements, like what you eat and drink, muscle strength and cardio endurance, protection during sex, mental health, and good sleep patterns can contribute to a healthier penis.
How to Protect Your Penis Health
1. Eat a Balanced Diet and Exercise Regularly
Overweight and obese men experience sexual dysfunctions, like ED, more than those who maintain a healthy BMI. Excess weight (and its associated health risks) impact penis health. A 2005 National Institutes of Health (NIH) study discovered that 31% of men with ED regained normal function after losing weight. Maintain your weight with the following tips.
What you put into your body matters. A poor diet leads to overall poor health and affects your penis. Look no further than the Mediterranean diet to guide you. It’s rich in whole foods like vegetables, fish, and fruits while low in refined grains and processed junk.
You’ll get more nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to keep all your organs healthy. Healthy organs mean healthy blood flow, which your penis needs. Your overall health contributes to your body’s ability to maintain erections and optimal sperm volume.
Additionally, healthy blood flow equals healthy erections. Cardio and strength-training exercises boost your cardiovascular system for proper blood flow throughout your body and to your penis.
Exercise improves confidence, enhances mental health, and reduces depression and the risk of heart disease. These factors affect overall sexual health and performance.
Aim to move your body for at least 30 minutes a day. Begin including cardio and muscle-building exercises for as little as 20 minutes a day, five or six days a week, to improve your overall health and penis health.
2. Drink More Water
Chances are good you don’t drink enough good ol’ H2O. Even mild dehydration can cause penile health problems–from kidney stones to erection difficulties. Try to drink between ½ to 1 gallon (8 or more glasses) of plain water daily. Add citrus fruits, berries, herbs, or fresh cucumbers to your water if you need to switch up the taste without compromising your hydration.
3. Stay on Top of Your Mental Health
Mental health affects the rest of you, even your sex life and penis function. Built-up stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression can affect your erections, performance, and sex drive. Those concerns can also cause more anxiety over how you perform in bed, which can snowball into performance anxiety or penis dysmorphic disorder.
Listen to mental health podcasts, read mental health news and books, and consider seeing a mental health therapist. Even if you think everything is on the up and up in your head space, a trained and neutral third party can help you better handle stressors.
Also, avoid porn as it can negatively affect mental health surrounding sex. It’s linked to increased sexual dysfunctions, even in young men.
4. Exercise Your Pelvic Floor
Kegels aren’t just for a woman’s pelvic floor. Men benefit from these exercises, too. They increase your level of bladder control (to include dripping after urination) and stamina during sex.
Tighten your pelvic floor muscles and hold the position for about three seconds. If you’ve done it right, you’ll feel the muscles behind your scrotum lift.
5. Sleep Well
Too little rest prevents your body from being its healthiest because it needs time to recuperate and restore. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends an average of seven or more hours of sleep each night.
6. Reduce Substance Use
Men dependent on alcohol have higher instances of sexual dysfunction–poor performance, premature ejaculation, low libido, and unsatisfactory intercourse.
Drink in moderation. What does that mean? While it’s impossible to put a number on “moderation,” a good rule of thumb is no more than two drinks in a day. Try not to drink alcohol daily.
Smoking is harsh on your respiratory and cardiovascular systems. You need both in tip-top shape for good penis health. Check out this NIH study on the link between smoking and ED and try to quit.
7. Wash Your Junk and Protect Yourself Against STIs
Hopefully, it goes without saying to clean your penis. If you don’t, smegma (a mixture of dead skin cells, skin oil, and moisture) can build up (and smell), especially if you are uncircumcised. It won’t prevent STIs but can help you avoid other infections.
Wear a condom every time you have intercourse if you aren’t in a long-term, monogamous relationship. STIs (sometimes called STDs) like herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and human papillomavirus (HPV) can affect how your penis looks, feels, or performs. Some STIs affect your entire body.
Regularly get tested if you have sexual intercourse with others you don’t know well. Encourage new partners to get tested, too. Learn whether or not you can have protected or unprotected sex with an infected, non-symptomatic person.
What Affects Penis Health
Lots of things can impact the health of your penis, like high blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. Your age, hormones, medications, and intensity of intercourse affect you, too. Even self-assurance plays a role.
Improve Your Penile Self-Esteem
Speak with a knowledgeable men’s girth enhancement expert if you’re working on your holistic health but are still worried about the size and functionality of your member. Likely, your penis size is average 3.5-5.5 inches. However, adding girth has never been easier, quicker, and less invasive than it is now. Growing in girth can heighten your and your partner’s sensations in the bedroom. Additionally, it can boost your self-esteem and outlook on your manhood.
Holistic Health
Whatever affects your overall health affects your penis. Healthy blood vessels improve erections and sexual satisfaction. Give your body the healthy food, water, exercise, sleep, and mental health it needs to keep your penis in good working order.
