Could Having a Healthy Sex Life Help Control Your Type 2 Diabetes?

It was after an intimate expression of love shared between my husband and I that I realized sex could help control my type 2 diabetes. Thinking that surely someone has already thought of this, and quite possibly has done a study of sorts on the subject I searched the internet far and wide for something, anything that would substantiate my theory. I found nothing, although I did find many articles on the importance of exercise and type 2 Diabetes, I found nothing that indicated a healthy sex life could help someone with diabetes.

Since I could not find anything to prove my theory, I decided to do my own personal experiment to see if sex would lower my blood sugar. I did not plan a sex session nor did I tell my husband. I wanted my "sexperiment" to be as normal as possible. I knew we would probably engage in sex after dinner right before bed. Prior to our sexual engagement my blood sugar tested at 180 after our engagement my glucometer t read 119. In about 45 minutes time my glucose had dropped over 60 points putting me within the American Diabetes Associations recommended testing level which should be anywhere between 100 and 130.

It is recommended that people with type 2 Diabetes exercise three to four times a week and while engaging in exercise they should maintain an aerobic like activity such as walking or biking for 15 to 30 minutes. Newer studies has also shown that strength training can have a very profound, positive impact on managing type 2 diabetes. Sex, at least in the way that I perceive it, can implement all the basic aspects of exercise, and would only make sense that someone who maintains a healthy sex life could also maintain a healthy life with type 2 Diabetes.

An active sex life can encompass everything that a typical exercise session would provide. Sex in it's self is aerobic, in most cases a persons heart rate is raised to a level that will in turn burn calories. Muscles will also be given a work out which is an important aspect of strength training. Exercise is important for someone with type 2 diabetes because muscles are capable of absorbing 20 times the amount of glucose (sugar) during moderate, continued exercise. In my opinion it is fair to assume that an active sex life can help manage type 2 Diabetes because it can be considered moderate, continued exercise.