The Real Reason Your Body Doesn't Respond Like It Used To After Age 35 | #178

Nitric Oxide for Better Sex: The Biohack That's Already Inside You

What if the reason your body isn't responding like it used to has nothing to do with your age, your hormones, or your relationship? Nitric oxide is a molecule your body already makes. It tells your blood vessels to open so blood can flow to your heart, your brain, and yes… your genitals. When it's flowing, erections are firmer, tissues are plumper, lubrication shows up naturally, and pleasure builds the way it's supposed to. When it drops? Everything fades. And most people have no idea that's what's happening. This episode is your roadmap to getting it back.

WHAT WE COVER

• What nitric oxide does in your body and why Dr. Willow calls it your "natural opening signal"
• Signs yours might be low (softer erections, vaginal dryness, orgasms that feel like a fraction of what they used to be)
• Foods that boost it naturally: beets, arugula, spinach, dark leafy greens
• L citrulline and L arginine: the amino acid supplements that support nitric oxide (and why you take them daily, not right before intimacy)
• Saunas, steam rooms, and infrared: how heat widens blood vessels, lowers cortisol, supports testosterone, and detoxes endocrine disruptors
• The VFit red light therapy device: Dr. Willow's favorite intimate wellness tool for tissue health, natural lubrication, and sensitivity (Halle Berry is a fan too)
• A Tantric breathing practice for couples: synchronized breath, bellies together, hip spirals, pelvic floor pulses. Do this before sex. Thank us later.
• Try one thing this week: eat more greens, take a sauna, go for a walk, or breathe slowly with your partner before your next intimate moment. Start there.

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Introduction and Sauna Benefits

Willow 1:32

Hey everyone. Welcome back. It's the Sex Reimagined Podcast. Did you know that one of the most powerful things you can do for sexual vitality is hit the sauna? Studies show that men who use saunas four to seven times a week have a 50% lower risk of erectile dysfunction, which is huge. That's compared to men who use saunas maybe once a week or not at all. So we're thrilled to talk about why saunas work so well for, um, erectile function and, um, I'm Dr. Willa Brown. I'm here with the one and only

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Willow 2:06

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Leah 2:13

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Willow 2:48

And be sure to stay until the very end of this episode because we're gonna be sharing with you our favorite sex toy for vulva owners, which will increase not only your pleasure, but your function as well.

Leah 3:03

it's time now to turn on, tune in and fall in love with Leah and Willow.

Speaker 3:08

Welcome to the Sex Reimagined Podcast, where sex is shame-free and pleasure forward. Let's get into the show.

Willow 3:17

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

The Power of Nitric Oxide

Willow 3:18

So this is pretty remarkable that, uh, 50% lower risk of erectile dysfunction just from taking Asana on a regular basis.

Leah 3:27

That's amazing. I had no idea. That's so cool.

Willow 3:30

I know. Here's some other fun stats for our stat lovers out there. Um, regular aerobic exercise where you're panting and sweating can improve your erectile function by up to 60%. The reason why this works, the reason why heating up your body actually works is because it increases nitric oxide production, which improves blood flow and endothelial function. So just more circulation, more blood flow, especially to the heart, the genitals, all these places in the body that we want good blood flow to when we're having good sex. Um, you know. All of these things that we're gonna talk about today, pretty much all point to nitric oxide. So nitric oxide is this molecule that's already inside of your body. It's endogenous to your system, and it can literally turn up. Your sensitivity, it can turn up your arousal. It can completely revive your erotic life. And what we want to be doing is increasing our blood flow with nitric oxide. So now there's all these supplements on the market. You can take nitric oxide and all these different forms, but we're gonna talk more about how you can just, um, boost what's already in here inside of your body today.

Supplements and Dosage

Leah 4:56

Yeah, so I, um, have experimented a little bit with nitric oxide maybe just once or twice. I think I took a really small amount before, a workout once, and then a girlfriend of mine, I can't remember why we were taking it. I don't know if she just likes the flush or whatever. But I think I took too much and my whole body flushed really red and then it was like pins and needles all over my skin. So I know that was a, a dosage issue, but when someone is taking nitric oxide as a supplement, it's usually a daily supplement, correct.

Willow 5:31

Yeah, it's a daily supplement, which means, you know, it, it compounds on itself, like it builds in your system and your body adjusts to learn how to use the buildup that's happening in your body slowly over time. So, yeah, you want to kind of dose yourself and go low and slow. Similar to what we say about peptides. When your nitric oxide is deficient in your body, you might know that by your erections, they're just not as firm. They're not as hard, they're not as, um, lasting as long as they used to. For vulva owners, lubrication, if there's a lot of dryness. And you're just really not, um, you know, feeling that plump juiciness in the vulvar tissues, then that could be an indication of, low nitric oxide as well as many other things. This is just a piece of the pie, If you have a deficiency of it, then it can make it harder to have those orgasms. We have people all the time who come to us, right? Who are like, uh, I'm used to have these big giant ones and now I can barely, I get these little, like a fraction of what I used to get. And so, you know, that's an indicator for me think, okay, well let's look at nitric oxide as a potential, way to improve your, orgasmic experience.

Leah 6:49

is nitric oxide something that you would take right before your sexual, or is it just like a daily supplement that you would take in the morning or the evening like all your other supplements?

Willow 6:59

Yeah, that's such a good question. You can take it anytime. it's not like the peptide we were talking about earlier, like the PT 1 41. It's more of an ongoing regular, you take it with all your other supplements because Not only is it gonna increase your sexual function, it's gonna increase your ability to run faster, further harder. Your endurance. Yep, exactly. Because it's increasing oxygen in your body basically. And certain things can't live in a highly oxygenated environment. like, Bacterias and molds and all these things, when I was healing my body from Candida, I used to put drops of, food grade hydrogen peroxide in my water, you know, to really bring more oxygen and more flow of blood to all the tissues in my body.

Amino Acids and Their Benefits

Leah 7:50

Can it benefit someone who does not exercise?

Willow 7:53

Yeah, such a good question. I mean, it will still benefit. It will still benefit because again, nitric oxide is in your body already. But then we often get, go through life and we go through, you know, stress and age and issues and things, and we don't have the, the amount that we used to have.

Leah 8:13

Now they say that heat exposure, increases nitric oxide. Do you know why?

Willow 8:19

It's because of that circulation. And so that's why saunas even, um, regular saunas, they don't have to be infrared though we will talk about why those work better. But, just regular old saunas because you're sitting in there, you're getting, the heat is going into your body. It's opening up, it's opening up all the blood vessels. There's a big dilation thing happening in your body. So you could think about nitric oxide is like your body's natural opening signal, right? It really starts to help relax blood vessels so they can widen, so that blood can flow more fully through them. And that's why it so much supports, better sex, better erections, more, juicy erectile tissue in the vulva because the blood vessels are widening, they're expanding. So I also like to just think of it as like, when I take it, you know. In my supplement regime, I just, I know what it's doing. So I think to myself as I'm taking it, like I'm increasing my capacity to feel more of myself.

Leah 9:28

You know what's interesting about these three things, nitric oxide, saunas, and heat, right? Like exercise is that really do work beautifully together because of this heat component. And I would say that every single doctor we have at on here who specialize in male sexual health, whether they are an md, an endocrinologist, so on and so forth. Every single one of them talks about exercise, and I think people don't truly understand just how important exercise is to sexual health. So it makes sense that nitric oxide is going to help increase your efficacy in terms of what you're doing when you're exercising.

Willow 10:14

Absolutely. And I think that, when we hear that word exercise and we're not an exerciser, we're like, Ooh, it sounds daunting. It sounds overwhelming, but it really, it literally can just be going for a walk. It doesn't have to be, you know, 45 minutes on the elliptical, followed by a 25 minutes swim and a bunch of weightlifting. It could be that, that's great if you're in that range, in that realm. But simply walking is just enough to get the natural, endogenous, nitric oxide in your body flowing, and then if you're taking it supplementally as well, or through your food, which we're gonna talk about, which foods will, increase it. Then it will, it will function. That's what we want. We're looking for function in our bodies. That's what functional medicine, that whole world of healing is all about. Is like, let's get the body functioning in a way that, um, can give us more vitality and longevity and just a better quality of life overall. So in penis owners. You know, nitric oxide lets the smooth muscle relax so that those chambers fill with blood and erections happen more easily, and then they actually stay harder longer. And in vva owners more nitric oxide again means. Better blood flow, better sensitivity, and better lubrication. So there's, one of the main foods, you, you'll see these little things on the shelf in the health food store are these little, these little beet chews actually love them. I think they're

Leah 11:47

Oh, they are good. You've

Willow 11:48

They're like, they're like little hippie candies, you know? I just think they're great. They're expensive little hippie candies, but they're great. So there's like the little beet chews, there's beet powders on the, market because beets, or you could just eat beets, you know, but a lot of people don't actually have beets in their diet. But beet root actually, Will increase your nitric oxide because of an an amino acid that is in it, which is L citruline. L citruline is the amino acid, so that's the component in bee root that will, transfer into more nitric oxide in your body.

Leah 12:26

You know, this is a side note, but I have beet powder and the only time I eat beet powder is on popcorn y'all. Make yourself some popcorn, drizzle a little butter on that popcorn, and then sprinkle some beet powder and and a little nutritional yeast. And I have just given you the world's greatest recipe to the world's greatest popcorn. And you may think that sounds so damn odd, but let me tell you, I've been eating it that way for 15 years and it is amazing. So now I know I'm in a little nitric oxide boost every time I make my popcorn.

Willow 13:00

Do you feel sexier and more ready for sex after you eat popcorn? Have

Leah 13:03

Well, gosh, I do feel delicious. It's usually in front of a movie, so, um, you know, feeling horny isn't totally top of mind, but you know, now that I know I get to be more intentional and purposeful. So I'll test it and really see if I can feel my vulva get thicker as a result of my beet powder popcorn.

Willow 13:29

Yes. Let us know how that goes. I'm curious. so yeah, nitric oxide, supports like the blood flow, the circulation, but also energy, right? It's gonna give you more energy to walk longer or workout longer.

Leah 13:42

de-stress you.

Willow 13:43

It's gonna de-stress you and potentially also could be a, a, a key component in balancing hormones. testosterone?, yes, you're the whole body.

Leah 13:56

That's a big another thing back to exercise. Testosterone is going to, uh, when you exercise, you increase your testosterone levels. So important for men at mid age and older.

Willow 14:08

Absolutely. So important. So what can you do today to increase your nitric oxide without even going to the health food store and buying expensive beet juice? You can, you can eat things like beets, um, arugula, spinach, other dark leafy greens. All of these are really high in nitrates that the body converts into nitric oxide. You could also get the actual amino acid in a supplement. You could get L citruline, which the body converts into L Arginine. Which then boosts nitric oxide, or you could just get some L-arginine. But the

Leah 14:55

of both of those.

Willow 14:56

yeah, the problem.

Leah 14:57

are they?

Willow 14:58

You know, just I'll take a pause and talk about, amino acids. So they are amino acids. Anytime you hear L-glutamine, L-arginine, el citraline, l anything that is an amino acid, which is a protein, it's a building block for your body. And so there's these little receptor sites on the cells in your body. This is why the peptide therapies are so big in the industry right now is 'cause they're chains of amino acids. Right. And so these are single amino acids and you can take them supplementally. I used to do it all the time and it was like, it was really how I got myself out of states of depression. It was how I got myself out of, um, addiction to sugar, addiction to substances. You know, and then you can also use these amino acids to restore your brain chemistry. Since I was a vegetarian for a very long time, I didn't eat meat, and a lot of these amino acids are found in red meat, particularly. I was eating fish, but I wasn't getting these amino acids. So as a vegetarian, if we've got any vegetarian listeners out there, I would recommend picking up Julia Ross's. Books. She's got a book called The Diet Cure and a book called The Mood Cure. And those two books are, were basically my Bibles for a long time around nutrition because they will, you can get over addictive habits, patterns and behaviors, even addiction to social media, addiction to porn, all these different things that we don't think of as like problems in our physiological body, but they are. And so when we put the right amino acid into the right receptor site, that little receptor site, which I always think of as like a little Pac-Man, he's not so hungry anymore. He's like, nah, I don't need sugar. I got my L glutamine. You know, I don't need caffeine. I got my tyrosine in in here. So.

Leah 16:57

Okay, so I've got a couple questions about that, but before we move on, if you are enjoying this episode, please like it would you, and if you've got a question yourself, please put it in. Comment box because we do look at those and we will answer those questions. also you might as well know that if you need some support with this type of nutrition, um, with your overall wellbeing, with your sexual health, I cannot recommend our very own Dr. Willow enough. And she gives our audience a free consultation to kind of talk about what's going on in your system, where you need more health and wellness in your life. You can always book that call if you go to www.drwillowbrown.com and click on the free consultation button in the menu. so my follow up question is, you know, all those L dash amino acids that I won't be able to pronounce, uh, I've heard some of those are for joint health also, or, yeah. Okay. 'cause sometimes I try to figure out, yes, amino acid, okay, I've got that figured out. But then there's all these other things that they do. I know that they can help with inflammation. And now we know that, nitric oxide helps with blood flow. Is there anything else about those that you listed that have added benefits?

Willow 19:57

Um, gosh, let's see. Uh, getting off of caffeine, getting off of sugar, getting off of, alcohol, getting,

Leah 20:06

you're really bumming me out right now. That's a, those are a lot of fun things to get off of.

Willow 20:11

Well, if you have a good relationship with them, they're fun. If you have a poor relationship with them, they are running your life. You can overcome drug addiction. There's actually a center up in Marin that Julia Ross opened where she just, you know, helps people get over their addictions from addiction to craving. You know, it's like we have these things where we're like, I'm just really craving this and we know we're not gonna feel good after we eat it, or we know we're not gonna feel good after we snort it or whatever it is, you know? But we do it anyway. And that's because those receptor sites are so fucking hungry. They're like, gimme the substance. Gimme the substance. But if you put the amino acid into that receptor site, the receptor site says, ah, I'm satiated. I don't crave that anymore.

Leah 20:56

That's really, really powerful. There should be commercials on TV about that.

Willow 21:00

I know, but there's not. There's commercials about, you know, other things that just override your system again. Exactly. Yeah. that's why we, I, wanted to do this whole biohacking for Better sex series was because, well, I really wanted to do it. 'cause I just think this stuff is so important, there's so many ways to have better sex. There's communication, there's Tantric practices, there's all these biohacks which are gonna set your system up to actually receive more pleasure. Like how I was saying, when I take my nitric oxide supplement and I put it into my body and I consciously think this is allowing my vessels to expand so that I can feel more of myself. So then let's say from that state, I go into a sexual encounter. Like I am gonna feel more of myself. I'm gonna feel more of my arousal, more of my erotic nature, more of my Shakti, and I'm gonna have a way better orgasm because I am not only, feeding my cells and my body is something that they need, but something that they can, take me to the next level with.

Leah 22:08

Well, I think too, when you think about circulation, I also think about circuitry and your brain is the second biggest sex organ in your body. So if you want there to be good communication, you need that blood flow to be circulating through your whole system. And when you've got places that are being engorged, you want more sensation. And I think that's also interesting that you, oftentimes you feel a flush. The blood comes up to the surface, even with your own skin. And your skin is the first biggest sex organ in your body, and that's where we feel most of our sensation. So kind of interesting that some of these things would tie together.

Willow 22:46

Oh yeah. They all tie together inside of our systems. Great. example of all that, you know, even the breath work. We did a whole, uh, podcast on breath work and, that slow nasal breathing with

Breathwork and Cranial Sacral Therapy

Willow 22:58

the longer exhales, you know, that really supports the, the parasympathetic nervous system, which is that rest and digest. Side of your nervous system, and so many people are running at a sympathetic, dominant nervous system, which means they're always in fight or flight. They're always anxious, they're always stressed. It's very hard for them to get good deep sleep. They wake up, they need coffee, they need wine to wind down. You know, they are just never dropping into parasympathetic. One of the. Huge things that I do with clients is that, that sometimes they get off of my table and they're like, whoa, I feel weird. And I'm like, yeah, 'cause that's 'cause you're finally in a parasympathetic state. They're like, it feels amazing. I'm like, yeah, your body is finally relaxed, you know, and so cranial sacral. Cranial sacral is what I wanted to say. It's one of the most amazing modalities to drop you into, basically an induced meditative state where you just get to take a brain vacation. I mean, raise your hand if you want a brain vacation.

Leah 24:09

I do. so when you say cranial sacral, not everyone's gonna know what that is. Can you describe what that is?

Willow 24:15

So craniosacral is a, a modality. It's a hands-on modality whereby the practitioner is. Listening very, very carefully to your cranial sacral rhythm, to your, the rhythm of your cerebral spinal fluid. So your cerebral spinal fluid flows up and down your spine at a very, very slow rate, but it does have a rhythm and it does have a rate, and you can feel that rhythm in any bone structure in your body. I can feel it in your knees. I can feel it in your toes. I can feel it in your head. And so when. Cranial sacral therapist is listening to that rhythm. Wherever they're touching your body, it's gonna feel like a really gentle, barely touching kind of pressure. but we're listening for that rhythm and that rate. And, for example, when I'm on someone's head, I'm looking for a butterfly sensation, like their cranial bones should be going symmetrically out and symmetrically in. So if you're watching this, you can see what my hands are doing there. Butterfly out, and they're butterfly in at an even and steady rate. But a lot of people's cranial sacral rhythms are out of sync. They're not in rhythm. And so, the left side of the head will be going out and in, but in a crunchy way and not, not smooth. And the right side won't be moving at all, you know, so resetting. That rhythm basically resets your entire nervous system, which is why you then drop into a parasympathetic state. Which is a place where you can actually be in receptivity, and this is one of the biggest, superpowers of the divine feminine, which we all carry no matter what our gender is, is being able to receive. This is a huge, spiritual practice. I was just talking with a man today and he's like, I'm in pain around the fact that I am a bad receiver. You know, like just can't ask for help, and when they can, they can't receive it. And so that's a big practice in and of itself. A little bit of a digression there, but

Leah 26:27

Yeah. Yeah. But that's so true. You know, back to the nitric oxide, I've got a question about dosage. can you share a little bit about how much you take, and does it vary depending on what your goals are?

Willow 26:41

Whatever supplement you get your hands on, that is gonna tell you on the bottle, like or on the package. for those little chews you have two a day, I think it is. I, I often get like, I wanna have four a day and I always am listening to my body. If my body's like, I want four today, then you know, I have four. I don't worry about it. I think that our best dosage indicator is our body. it's like I was watching something recently too about, A little girl with autism who was just eating junk food constantly. And then, her parents were like, okay, we're throwing all the junk food out and you're getting steak and vegetables. And she basically starved herself for six days. She would not eat it and she was throwing tantrums and her, you know, autistic behavior was through the roof and it was a super difficult period of time. Then she started eating the steak and the vegetables, and then she just couldn't get enough. She was just eating plate after plate, feeding herself for the first time.

Leah 27:44

Wow.

Willow 27:46

Yeah. So our body, yeah, our bodies get hungry for the things that, that they need. You know, once we start nourishing

Leah 27:55

Well, and then there's those foods that are highly inflammatory, which I think also makes you crave them. I, I don't know a ton about it, but I know that that's often, a suggested diet for people with autism to be on an anti-inflammatory diet and to really lessen their exposure to gluten like items.

Willow 28:15

Yeah, absolutely. For sure, 100% makes such a huge difference. So these are sort of like, you know, outer layer things. The, the first thing we wanna look at is diet, and then we wanna look at movement, and then we can add things like sauna, we can add things like. Hyperbaric chamber, which we'll talk about in a moment. But I wanted to offer, just a little practice, something that you could do today as well. Yeah, you can start eating more dark leafies and some beets to get that nitric oxide boosted. But a practice you can do, with a partner that can really also increase, blood flow and connection is that long, slow. Deep breathing together, sync synchronizing your breathing, so you're both breathing in together, and you're both breathing out together And bring your bodies together. And you can have one hand on the back of their heart and one hand on the back of their sacrum with your bellies pressing together and you're breathing in together. And you're breathing out together and then just starting to spiral your hips around in a circle from there and it feels so good. And then you can add a little pulsing of your pubococcygeus muscles, which is like the Kegel muscles. And just doing that simple practice and that simple exercise is actually going to increase your nitric oxide as well, your circulation. And if you do this before sex, you're gonna have way better sex.

Leah 29:46

It's a beautiful co-regulation exercise. It brings you into the present moment so that you're really there with yourself and you're there with your partner. Those hip spirals, they just feel so good. It's like opening up your spine and they're sexy and so is those pumping of your PC muscles. What's interesting about when you are squeezing and relaxing and doing those Kegel monk cell exercises, you are, helping the reproductive. Of those organs stay lifted and you're bringing blood flow to the genitals. When you squeeze those muscles and hyper relax them, it acts as a pump and it ends up bringing engorgement to your genitals. And for women, it helps create natural lubrication. I highly recommend that exercise and slowing down your breath, slowing down your breath is gonna drop your adrenaline, it's gonna help you shift your stress levels. That's why presence ends up being available to you because you're really shifting your breath pattern. It is so key to so many sexual practices, and it's the one thing that'll teach you, hopefully make it feel more natural to breathe differently during your orgasm. Because a lot of people hold their breath when they come and they're really shortcircuiting what could be a monster of a climax.

Willow 31:09

100%. Oh my gosh. Breath can change everything in your sexuality. I wanna switch gears and talk a little bit about the infrared saunas, or there's all kinds of infrared devices on the market

Infrared Saunas and VFit

Willow 31:22

these days, like little handheld ones. Things you could put over your genitals, you can put over your skin, over your face, over your chest, to really heal the body because what the red light therapy is doing is it's. Turning on the mitochondria, which are the part of your cells, which, create energy and that, you know, blood flow to the mitochondria, gives you more energy, gives you more arousal, gives you a heightened state of arousal. So infrared. saunas are not only going to stimulate nitric oxide release, so you get that, higher level of blood flow, but it's also gonna lower cortisol like Leah just said, lowering your stress. Right. And it's gonna support testosterone production and detox. All the endocrine disruptors that we are swimming in, right from detergents to. Poor air quality to,

Leah 32:19

Plastics and

Willow 32:20

water bottles. Exactly.

Leah 32:23

but that doesn't mean that you're, these infrared devices are gonna make you horny. It's not like a,

Willow 32:30

Well, they make me horny.

Leah 32:32

well, the VFit can make you horny. That's a very special, infrared, uh, dildo device. Is it, is it a vibrator too or is it just a

Willow 32:42

So funny. You should bring up the, the vfi. 'cause I was just talking to the, the woman over there at Vfi yesterday, and I was like, it's my favorite vibrator. And she's like, we don't call it a vibrator, Dr. Willow. It's a vaginal wellness tool. I was like, okay, well I've been using it as a vibrator for like 10 years, so.

Leah 33:01

Yeah. And it's one of its claim to fame and everyone's talking about the vfi. Y'all, Halle Berry's been on social media talking about the Vfit. It's really getting a lot of buzz. And can you say why it's special to you, especially with the red light therapy connected to it.

Willow 33:17

Yeah, so first of all, that warmth and that heat of the red light is is so yummy and delicious. It just feels good. I like all the different levels of vibration. When I go to another vibrator after I've been like with my Vfit for a while, the other ones feel a little bit too jarring. So I think the vibration, there's something a little bit more. I don't know what it is. The oscillations have more space between them or something. I'm not totally sure. But the VFit also comes with a photonic gel, which increases that red light therapy absorption into your tissues by 40%. So it's really like the best thing on the market for, um, perimenopause when, when our estrogen levels start to lower and we no longer have the, the juiciness and the plumpness of the tissues, the tissues start to atrophy when those estrogen levels go down. I'm still good with my estrogen levels in life, but I, I use it and I have noticed, like whenever I'm using it consistently and regularly, my vaginal fluids are, they're just more, more available, more ready. It's not, it's not like I'm, you know, leaking all over the place, but I just have more juiciness basically. So I'm a

Leah 34:35

Which leads to more turn on.

Willow 34:37

Totally. Way, totally leads to more turn on. I'm a huge fan of that device. Anyone who's had, um, pelvic floor issues or, um, pain in the pelvis, it's a, a great thing because that, red light is increasing mitochondria health, which increasing ATP. So it's increasing energy, essentially.

Leah 35:02

ATP?

Willow 35:03

Energy,

Leah 35:04

Okay. The other thing that's kind of sexy about it is the red light just looks pretty. It's like there's something sexy about feeling and seeing that light as it penetrates you. I haven't tried it yet. I'm waiting for my V fit to get in the mail y'all. But, um, that's one of the things that people say. It's like, God, I love looking at this red light penetrate.

Willow 35:27

Put a mirror near where you're playing with yourself and you get to like, see your vulva in a whole new light basically. It's really fun. and you can get those Vfits directly through me as well. I've actually got a stack of them that I can, that I'm doling out to people

Leah 35:47

So we'll have a, um, a link in the show notes, so make sure you get your B fit from us.

Willow 35:53

Yeah. so if you are preparing for date night and you are a penis owner, be sure to go get a sauna in earlier that day. Sweat flush and regulate your nervous system so that you go home and you're ready for your date. More open, more soft, more tuned. Turned on and for our vva owners out there, get Asana or get a Vfi and set yourself up for success that way.

Leah 36:18

Now, does it matter? Like, and by the way, you guys, you don't have to go invest thousands of dollars on a home sauna to get these benefits. A lot of gyms now have saunas or steam rooms is a steam room. Same. Same.

Willow 36:32

Yeah, well, steam room is also that heat and that, widening of the vessels, right? Anytime we're getting hot, we're getting widening of the vessels. So more blood flow. Absolutely. and yeah, the, the infrared is just an additional bonus, but yeah, if you're going to as a gym and you're just sitting in a normal, regular sauna, still a huge benefit. Huge, huge benefit. Now here's a. Here's a more, um, high level thing that you could do, which, you know, costs more money for sure, but you can go sit in a hyperbaric chamber. Hyperbaric chambers are, where you sit in a pressurized chamber and you breathe pure oxygen. So it's really increasing your oxygen in your blood and in your tissues, which supports healing on every single level. Because remember I said, microbes, bacterias, molds, toxins, candida overgrowth, these things cannot live in a highly oxygenated environment.

Leah 37:34

Good to know. also there's gotta be some added benefit if your sauna is an, uh, an infrared sauna. Not just a regular sauna. Right? That's kinda like, uh, yeah. Double the pleasure there. Okay. Well, thank you for this interesting episode, Dr. Willow. So nice to know that there are these things out there that no

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Leah 37:57

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