This 3 foods can boost your sexual functionability

Watermelon
This juicy red fruit could be the new sexual
star. While watermelon is 92 percent water,
the remaining eight percent contains the
phytonutrient citrulline, which converts to
arginine, an amino acid that relaxes blood
vessels, according to 2008 research from
Texas A&M University's department of
horticultural sciences. Although not as organ-
specific as drugs that treat men's erectile
dysfunction, watermelon may help improve
blood flow to erectile tissue (present in the
female clit¬oral area as well as the male
penis), increasing arousal. Scientists at the
university's Fruit and Vegetable
Improvement Center are now working on
increasing the fruit's citrulline content.

Saffron
Massimo Marcone, an associate professor of
food science at the University of Guelph,
used to dismiss aphrodisiacs as mere
folklore. In 2011, in fact, he conducted a
thorough scientific review of more than 200
international studies on consumable
aphrodisiacs, and rejected almost all as
invalid. But Marcone was shocked to find
that a few studies on one particular spice—
saffron—held up to close scrutiny.
"Not only does saffron appear to have
aphrodisiac properties for both men and
women," Marcone says, "but it helps with
anxiety, insomnia, uhPMS and insulin
resistance." What about other spices in your kitchen?
Nutmeg, cloves, garlic and ginger also look
promising for sexual potency, Marcone says,
but more research is needed. Don't hold
your breath, though; none of these natural
products can be patented, so drug
companies aren't racing to sponsor such a
study.

Oysters
Skeptics have dismissed the purported
aphrodisiac benefits of eating oysters as
purely psychological, based on their
suggestive shape and slippery texture. But
Gloria Tsang, a Vancouver registered dietitian
and the founder of nutrition network
HealthCastle.com, says there may be
something to the belief. "A lot of shellfish—
including oysters, clams, crabs, lobsters and
mussels—are high in zinc, which can trigger
a surge in the production of sex hormones."
Tsang adds that these bivalve mollusks also
contain two rare amino acids: D-aspartic acid
and N-methyl-D-aspartate. Joint American-
Italian research in 2005 at Barry University
in Miami and the Laboratory of Neurobiology
in Naples, Italy, found that giving these
amino acids to rats increased testosterone in
the males and progesterone in the females—
both are hormones associated with greater
sexual activity.