Libido
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It’s normal for your sex drive to fluctuate throughout the years. If you look back, you can probably associate many of your highs and lows to some type of life changes such as new relationships, relationships ending, medications, or pregnancy.
But it can be devastating to your relationship when you lose your sexual desire, making the other person feel unattractive and unloved. These types of feelings cause a strain in even the best relationships.
Don’t worry; there’s hope.
What Are The Causes of Low Libido in Women?
There are many potential causes of low libido for women. Many of the underlying issues are medically, emotionally, or psychologically related. Problems at work, causing stress, will attribute to your lack of sexual desire.
A woman’s desire for sex involves many factors; it’s not just about intimacy - physical, hormonal, psychological, and relationship. This makes uncovering the cause difficult sometimes.
Here are some causes of low libido in women,
- Sexual problems. If you experience pain during sex or the inability to reach climax will result in loss of sexual drive.
- Medical diseases. Many diseases, such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and neurological diseases, affect our libido.
- Medications. Taking prescription drugs, such as antidepressants, is likely to lower your sex drive.
- Lifestyle habits. Drinking too much alcohol, smoking, lack of exercise, and poor eating habits can affect your sex drive.
- Fatigue. This is more than just feeling tired. Fatigue will contribute to low sex drive and is often a result of an illness.
- Menopause. Low levels of estrogen will make you less interested in sex. It also causes dry vaginal tissues, making sex painful and uncomfortable.
- Pregnancy and breast-feeding. Your body is going through hormone changes during pregnancy and also after when breast-feeding. This can cause fatigue and contribute to the change in your sexual desire. Mental health problems, such as anxiety or depression
- Stress. Whether you're worried about finances or work, it will affect your libido.
- Poor body image. You may not even realize that you’re worried about what he’ll think of your new body after having a baby, or increased weight gain.
How to Increase Female Libido?
It’s not going to be as simple as taking a pill and getting back your sexual desire.
Women are much more complex than that. In order to find the right treatment, we must first uncover the cause.
While some of the causes may be apparent such as relationship issues, and stress most are not so easily defined. Medications that you are currently taking, lack of proper nutrition, and exercise may be the culprit. Talking through these things with a trained professional such as a holistic nutritionist will help you identify the cause.
A holistic nutritionist will define the underlying cause of your lack of sexual desire and help you to restore it naturally through various treatment plans. These individualized plans include dietary changes, nutritional supplements, exercise programs, and emotional support.