Podcast 474: Sex, love & your mental health
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about ways to improve your relationship, develop sexual intimacy, and increase your health and longevity. This is part 2 of my series on love, sex, relationships and wellbeing. As mentioned in part 1, safe, consensual sex in a loving relationship can help improve our health and wellbeing and even increase our longevity. But this is not just about sex. How well we interact with and relate to our partner will lay the foundation for a fulfilling and intimate relationship. Of course, this is easier said than done—as I am sure you know, relationships can be complicated! This is why I recommend creating rituals and routines in a relationship to improve sexual intimacy and overall health.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
1:00 The relationship between sexual intimacy & wellbeing
1:40 How routines & rituals can help improve relationships
2:50, 4:56 The difference between routines & rituals
6:20 The brain science behind connection in a relationship
7:50, 13:57, 17:35 Ways to create routines & rituals in relationships to enhance intimacy and wellbeing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Miss. |
| 0:09.0 | Okay, today's part two of my discussion with you guys about love, sex, relationships |
| 0:15.0 | and telomeres. And I told you in last week's podcast about the fact that our biological age |
| 0:21.0 | actually gets better with safe, consensual, sexual intimate relationships and relationships |
| 0:27.0 | where people have been together for a long period of time and I feel even a short period of time |
| 0:32.0 | where they feel safe and supported. And studied by Dr Lisa Eppel, who I have interviewed, |
| 0:39.0 | who is a leading authority when it comes to chronic stress and how to fix chronic toxic stress |
| 0:46.0 | and how that affects our biological age as assessed through looking at telomeres |
| 0:50.0 | which are the ends of chromosomes. So go listen to last week's podcast first, |
| 0:54.0 | or you can listen to this one and go back and listen to that one and go listen to the one |
| 0:59.0 | we are interviewed Dr Lisa Eppel as well because the study that she did on how sex basically influences |
| 1:06.0 | telomere length and therefore your biological and physical health was who most |
| 1:11.0 | was one of her studies that went completely viral and we'll put the link in the show notes |
| 1:16.0 | as well so you can go read the study. |
| 1:20.0 | So last week I gave you some tips and I'm going to continue with another tip today |
| 1:25.0 | to help increase our telomere length and have great relationships and great sex. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay, so here is the next tip. So another thing that you can do to help with increasing |
| 1:36.0 | our biological health through increasing telomere length and mitochondrial function |
| 1:40.0 | and immune system health which all work towards improved sex life, improved physical, |
| 1:46.0 | how you feel physically and mentally is to create some routines and rituals together |
| 1:52.0 | in your life with your partner. Okay, so a routine, what's the difference? |
| 1:56.0 | First of all, between a routine and a ritual. So but first of all, routines and rituals |
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