If you're a man and you are having sex once a month or less, you have a fifty percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
This is not the typical relationship advice. This is about how intimacy and your body can be connected. Close connection can influence your stress response, nervous system, mood, sleep, and circulation.
During intimate moments, your brain can release chemicals linked with relaxation, bonding, and positive feelings. For some people, that may help reduce stress and support overall well-being.
But here's the important part. Researchers have found associations between relationship and intimate health and cardiovascular health, but that does not prove that having less intimacy directly causes heart disease.
Your sleep, stress levels, exercise, blood pressure, diet, and many other factors matter too. So if intimacy has disappeared from an otherwise healthy relationship, don't simply ignore it. Talk openly, understand what's changed, and take care of your physical and emotional health. Your heart deserves attention too.