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Dhru Purohit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

It probably does.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

As long as you wash your hands.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Exactly.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But I mean, this makes sense, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

I mean, for an activity that is linked to literally every other health outcome, of course, it's going to also be related to our immune function.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

And so that is what we've found in that data is that people who are having regular sex have fewer colds, less instances of the flu, and fewer sort of long-term ailments than people who are not having sex.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Yes, we are.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

And I think that that is for all of the reasons that we've been talking about in terms of the stress and anxiety and the state of the world that's sort of weighing on everyone's minds.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But that finding is particularly driven by Gen Z, which is surprising to many people because we assume that they're all sex obsessed because of the amount of sex we see in our culture.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But Gen Z and millennials tend to be really driving that decline.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

However, it is present among all age groups.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

And when we talk about, okay, well, what's the solution to that?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

This is where I really believe in, and this is based off of just robust data showing the efficacy,

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

of planning intimacy, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Which many couples think, oh my God, like I don't want to have to plan sex.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

That just seems like it's the most unsexy activity in the world.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But I'm not saying that you need to create a contract where you're going to go have a sex date where you just mid dishwasher emptying, go and jump in bed and expect your body to instantly turn on and have sex.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But it's about carving out time for connection and intimacy with your partner and creating an environment where intimacy is likely to happen, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

There can be flexibility built around it.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But like I mentioned before, we could manage usually 30 minutes once a week in our schedules to plan that intimacy.