Holiday stress leads to lots of things.  It leads to increased anxiety and uncertainty because of the weighing idea that we need all kinds of money to pay for gifts for our loved ones, more anxiety over seeing family, and the food that we eat also leads to increased stress and anxiety, because it lends itself to the stress and anxiety roller coaster by increasing our insulin levels and resulting in unbalanced blood sugar, which increases the stress hormone called cortisol.

What does all this holiday stress spell out for your sex life?  Well it means that you probably don’t want to have sex or sexual contact because you are stressed to the max for one, and second, it leads to decreased time for you and your sexual partner to actually do the deed since you are exhausted due to holiday obligations and running all over creations to find the perfect gifts for family and friends.  Add to that the anxiety of attending work parties, and other holiday parties, and you’ve got a full sexual meltdown during the holidays.

So, what can you do?  Well, make sure you don’t totally neglect the gym or wherever else it is that you get the majority of your physical activity in.  If you can’t exercise during these stressful times, it just makes the anxiety and stress increase two and three fold.  Not working out the frustration and tension just lets it build up more, and faster, so make sure you’re literally “working out” the stress on a daily basis somehow, or at least every other day. 

The exercise will increase your energy levels, and enable you to cope with the stress more readilly and efficiently.  This results in an improved sexual desire as well as better sexual experiences, which, you guessed it, results in further stress reduction because sexual release does constitute itself as a stress reducer in itself.  Furthermore, do not neglect your nutrition. 

Make sure you are taking your men’s multivitamin still, since you may be depriving your body of the necessary nutrients to keep a man healthy during the holiday with all the junk food around, and also make sure you are getting adequate antioxidants with the different men’s health supplements that are out there with high antioxidant value, which combat the destructive effects of stress and anxiety at the cellular level.