As you get older, your body doesn't work quite the way it used to: your vision, hearing and memory may change. A thriving sex life might seem like a distant memory, as well… but it doesn't have to be! With a healthy lifestyle and targeted nutrition, you and your partner can enjoy intimacy well into your golden years.

1. Sexual support for men

   Blood flow is key to all aspects of a man's health, including sexual function. Fortunately, a healthy lifestyle will keep things moving. First step: stop smoking and limit or eliminate your alcohol consumption, increase your physical activity and eat a healthy, balanced diet. Beyond that, there are nutritional options to support peak performance when the mood strikes. Kaempferia parviflora is a hormone-free way to promote nitric oxide synthesis, which relaxes blood vessels, enabling a healthy male sexual response.

2. Move over, menopause

   As a woman ages, her sexual response slowly declines, and menopausal discomforts are more than likely to blame. Certainly for women over 50, vaginal dryness can get in the way of sexual pleasure, while hot flashes and mood swings are hardly an aphrodisiac! Siberian rhubarb has been shown to reduce these and other irritating menopausal discomforts. Meanwhile, botanical extracts such as Angelica gigas, Phlomis umbrosa and Cynanchum wilfordii may promote a more youthful sexual response, while maca root extract may also support female sexual health.

3. Intimacy is emotional, too

   Whether impacts on sexual function are your partner's, your own, or you're both dealing with changes that are impacting intimacy, the key is to listen, communicate and stay connected with one another—after all, you are in this together!