Vegan Diet Shows Well-Endowed Increase in Libido in Women by 383%

It was probably not all that surprising that depriving women of meat in their diet would increase their desire for meat (sort of in a different way). According to a new study by Stanford University researchers, a vegan diet was linked to substantial increases in libido, an almost four-time increase. These recent findings were featured in a new Netflix documentary, called You Are What You Eat. In the study, researchers tracked 22 sets of identical twins who adopted a plant-based diet for eight weeks. The study looked at several ways in which certain foods affect the body, in particular with two sets of female twins as to their libido levels. To study the effect on libido, the two sets of twins were asked to watch a variety of videos researchers used lab equipment to measure the temperature of their genitals--temperature levels being a known marker of sexual arousal. The women first watched a documentary on birds to develop baseline measurements.

Then they watched porn they themselves selected. This was one of each set of the twins switched to a vegan diet (during which all participants were also encouraged to exercise more than they usually exercise). Then the libido experiment was repeated eight weeks later, after the two adopted the vegan diet and all exercised more). The result: while all four women saw significant libido level increases (212% and 288% in the non-vegan twin), suggesting that merely an increase an exercise increases libido in women, the women who also adopted the vegan diet saw much larger increases (383% and 371% respectively in the vegan twin). While the Stanford study did not offer an explanation as to why the vegan twin saw higher increase, experts have previously indicated a link between the positive effects of nutrients in vegetables on blood vessels and improved blood flow to the genitals.