Is sex leaving you exhausted? It's enough to set several things in motion: your heart rate and cardiovascular get going; adrenaline starts pumping through your body; hormones are flying and liquids are . . . being spent. But realistically, it's not much of a work out -- since the average session of sex (25 minutes: and that's including foreplay, ladies!!) only burns off about 100-300 calories -- compared to your usual aerobic visit to the gym.

Yet, how many times has shredding the sheets left you too tired to run away or hide in the closet when your lover's spouse comes home early?

It may seem common to want to roll over and take a nap after sex (mmm . . . nap), but common is not necessarily normal. The body's capability to keep its endurance and replenish the lost hormones, fluids, and energy is dependent upon how healthy your body is. Duh!

Diet definitely has a lot to do with our body's ability to recuperate. In this health-conscious era of ours, we all know scarfing down burgers and fries aren't going to give you the energy you need. Fatty foods and high cholesterol are just going to slow you down and fatten you up. But hey, maybe you're getting ready for winter.

Exhaustion could also stem from the fact that you're a tub of lard and haven't exercised since your pimple-filled days of high school. Is sex the most strenuous thing you've done lately, besides trying to pick that wedgie out of your bulbous crack?


That's Not Me!!

So maybe you're eating right and getting enough exercise. You sleep at a reasonable hour and lay off the booze and drugs. Geeze, you sound boring. You're relatively young and yet, you're still having trouble shaking off that feeling of exhaustion, huh?

Perhaps it's Sexual Exhaustion, my friend. Encompassing not only regular sex (or as close to regular as you can get, you freak), masturbation is also grouped among the causes of sexual exhaustion. Fatigue and exhaustion are merely early stage symptoms. More serious cases of sexual exhaustion can result in impotence, body pain (including headaches), and even hair loss.

Even if you're running through a dry spell and haven't gotten any in a while, masturbation alone is still draining. You might not be breaking a sweat when you're popping your own weasel, but your body is still going through a rigorous routine. The energy and fluids being spent during masturbation has to be refilled. Excessive masturbation doesn't give the body a proper amount of time to recoup.

Like a workout, you have to allow time for your body to rest and recover. No one works out every single day because the body and muscles need a day or two to recover from the stresses put upon it and to replenish the fluids and nutrients lost. Is it that hard to believe that you should treat sex the same way?


The Moans of Lost Hormones

Sexual activities convert your body's store of serotonin and dopamine into the adrenaline needed for sex. The problems arise when you begin with an already low level of the hormones or excessively masturbate and deplete what you do have.

With a low level of the serotonin nervous modulation, the adrenal medullas perform excessive dopamine to adrenaline conversions. The excessive adrenaline injected into the bloodstream suspends the DHEA production in the adrenal cortexes, resulting in a deficiency of DHEA/androstenedione/testosterone in the local tissues, upon orgasm or/and ejaculation.

The result is a domino effect that affects other chemical reactions in your body and your muscles. A common result is feeling sore and fatigued. I'm sure plenty of people have had a throbbing feeling in their privates after sex. It's more than just sensitivity from the friction of the act. Men might feel their testicles tingling. Worse case scenarios bring out serious pain.

On top of that, the adrenaline being produced tends to overwork your body. Ever get a buzz from a cup of coffee and then feel like crap once the caffeine high is gone? The same thing happens to your body with adrenaline. The natural high you get from it can leave you a bit worn-out once it wears off.

Frequent ejaculation depletes the body of serotonin, which then strikes an imbalance in melatonin production. Melatonin -- converted from serotonin -- is the hormone responsible for controlling your biological clock (not the baby one, the one that controls your sense of time) that tells your body when it's sleepy. We all know how cranky we can get when we don't get enough sleep.

Because the body is short on melatonin, it isn't able to fall asleep long enough. You might be going to bed and waking up before the alarm sounds off, but it's not because you're all rested up. Insomnia and other serious sleeping disorders tend to develop if your body continues to operate without sufficient melatonin.

Sadly, you're only getting started here. Plenty of other problems besides fatigue and exhaustion will now arise from your excessive adrenaline, low dopamine, and low serotonin. Being tired is really the least of your problems.

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