Bad Breath

The foul oral odor (Bad Breath) is usually caused by a group of anaerobic, sulfur-producing bacteria that breed beneath the surface of the tongue and often in the throat and tonsil area. The term “anaerobic” literally means living without air, and in fact, these bacteria do not require oxygen to live. They occur naturally in the oral environment and are essential because they assist in digestion by breaking down proteins into amino acids. Proteins are commonly found in food, mucus or phlegm, blood, and in diseased oral tissue

Four Common Bad Breath Causes

Dry mouth- provides a perfect environment for anaerobic bacteria reproduction. Long periods of speaking, smoking, drinking alcohol, and snoring are a few common underlying causes. Most people experience foul breath in the morning due to lack of saliva production while they sleep. For healthy individuals, food odors are temporary and normal salivary flow will eliminate them within several minutes. However, those who suffer from dry mouth and lack of saliva find that even minor food odors may lead to long-term issues.

Foods– Halitosis can be made worse by certain foods such as onions and garlic because they contain smelly sulfur compounds, while dairy, meat, and fish contain dense proteins which are used as a food source by the anaerobic, sulfur-producing bacteria. Refined and processed sugars also provide a food source for bacteria. Coffee and juices can contribute to this problem because they are acidic and provide these bacteria with an ideal breeding environment.

Poor dental hygiene– Inadequate oral care causes bacterial buildup on the teeth and gums. Teeth cannot shed their surfaces the way skin can, so microorganisms can easily attach to the teeth and remain there for extended periods. If not continuously removed by adequate brushing, these bacteria develop into something called biofilm, commonly known as dental plaque. When plaque is allowed to accumulate near the gumline, it will harden and begin destroying teeth and gum tissues due to intense bacterial activity. This leads to gum disease such as gingivitis and periodontitis, which enable proteins from bleeding gums and diseased oral tissue to fuel odor-causing bacteria. Tooth decay and poorly fitting or dirty dentures can also contribute to this problem.

Illness and disease– According to studies, in approximately 10% of all cases, halitosis is caused by certain illnesses. Individuals who suffer from diabetes, lung disease, kidney disease, cancer, liver disease, respiratory tract infections, or metabolic disorders often experience chronic foul breath due to dry mouth. Sinusitis, pneumonia, bronchitis, post nasal drip, and polyps affect the airways and may also contribute to the problem. Other common illnesses associated with this problem include nasal odor. Certain drugs such as antidepressants, high blood pressure medications, can factor into dry mouth because they reduce saliva production

12 Easy Ways to Prevent Bad Breath

Please remember, preventing halitosis is always easier than treating it. By developing the right habits, you can effectively help prevent it.

1. Eat foods rich in fiber – High fiber foods actually help prevent halitosis. Avoid eating heavily processed foods that contain refined carbohydrates such as cookies, cakes, sweets and ice cream.
2. Use mouthwash – Some mouthwashes or oral rinses are effective at preventing bad breath. However, you should never use alcohol based mouthwashes because the alcohol makes the mouth very dry, which will actually make the problem worse.
3. Drink green and black teas – They contain polyphenols that help eliminate sulfur compounds and reduce oral bacteria.
4. Avoid drying medication – Try not to take antidepressants, diuretics, pain relievers, and antihistamines unless it is absolutely medically necessary. These drugs inhibit saliva flow and can cause chronic dry mouth.
5. Avoid products with sodium lauryl sulfate or alcohol – Do not use any oral hygiene products that contain sodium lauryl sulfate or alcohol because the alcohol makes the mouth very dry, one of the most common causes of bad breath.
6. Clean your mouth after eating meat, fish or dairy products – Practicing consistent and thorough oral hygiene is an effective prevention tool. Also wash up with baking soda.
7. Stop smoking – Studies have shown that smokers are at higher risk of developing periodontal disease and dry mouth. Furthermore, people who smoke may also engage in other habits that promote this condition such as dieting, drinking alcohol, and suffering from chronic anxiety conditions that require exacerbating prescription medications.
8. Breathe through your nose instead of your mouth – Try to address any snoring or sleep apnea issues that could be affecting your breath and causing dry mouth.
9. Drink water – Keep your mouth moist by drinking plenty of water.
10. Clean your dentures at least once a day – Practice the same, proper oral care that you would with your original teeth.
11. Eliminate dairy products from your diet – Lactose intolerance can be an underlying cause of halitosis.
12. Use an oral probiotic like S. salivarius K12 and M18  Use probiotics to balance the oral cavity and prevent an overgrowth of the odor causing bacteria.

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Zika virus: FG alerts Nigerians to restricts travel to Latin America

The Federal Government has issued an alert about the outbreak of Zika virus infection and directed that Nigerians, especially pregnant women, should be restricted from travelling to Latin America for now until the situation improves.

The government, which directed the Nigeria Center for Disease Control to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing efforts to manage the Lassa fever outbreak in the country, said anyone coming from any of the Latin American countries should be interviewed at the various ports of entry to ascertain evidence of Zika virus symptoms.

A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs. Boade Akinola, on Friday quoted the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, as saying that “there is no single case of Zika virus infection in the country and there is no need to panic.”

According to him, the Federal Ministry of Health will continue to monitor the situation and update Nigerians of any other developments.

Adewole said, “The World Health Organisation has raised a global alert because the disease has affected about 23 countries in Americas especially in Latin America. At the moment, there is no cure or vaccine for Zika virus infection.

“The Federal Ministry of Health hereby advises a travel restriction especially by pregnant women to Latin America for now until situation improves. In addition, we have directed the NCDC to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing effort to manage Lassa fever outbreak in the country.

“Nigerians should be vigilant and report promptly any case of unexplained fever that lasts more than 48 hours, especially in those that travelled to Latin America recently, to health care professionals. Nigerians working at various ports of entry into the country should interview anyone coming from any of the Latin American countries for evidence Zika virus symptoms.”

The manifestation of Zika virus infection include mild fever, rash (mostly maculo-papular), headaches, joint pain (arthralgia), muscle pain (myalgia), loss of weight (asthenia), and non-purulent conjunctivitis.

The virus is also associated with higher risk of congenital malformations in newborn when pregnant women are affected. The diseases usually occur about three to twelve days after the mosquito vector bite.

What you should know about Zika virus

Bird flu spreads to 18 states, 2.5m chickens affected: news Alert

Avian Influenza, popularly referred to as bird flu, is now in 18 states in Nigeria and has affected over 2.5 million chickens resulting in the loss of several billions of naira, the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science has said.

Avian Influenza or bird flu is an infectious viral disease of birds. While most Avian Influenza viruses do not infect humans, a few others like A(H5N1) and A(H7N9) have caused serious infections in people.

NIAS, which is the regulatory agency of the Federal Government for the regulation of all matters pertaining to animal husbandry in Nigeria, on Friday stated that bird flu was spreading so fast and as such all adequate measures to stop the spread must be enforced.

Asked to state the number of birds affected by the disease, the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, NIAS, Dr. Godwin Oyedeji, said, “By the last count, I think as of yesterday (Thursday), not less than 2.5 million chickens have been infected and over 700 farms have been affected nationwide. From one incidence in one state and moving to two states, it has increased and I think by now we are having it in not less than 18 states.”

Oyedeji, who spoke during a press briefing in Abuja, added, “In the Kuje area, here in the Federal Capital Territory, over 900,000 birds have been affected. This should not continue, and it is because things that should be done are not being done.

“If we cannot prevent wild birds that carry the influenza from overflying Nigeria and if the virus has come into Nigeria, then we can prevent, through good animal husbandry practices, the spread from one farm to the other.”

He noted that something was wrong somewhere, adding that the institute had gone to the field to ascertain what was not being done right by poultry farmers. www.punchng.com

Scientists unveil potential schizophrenia breakthrough

SCHIZOPHRENIA IS  a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Scientists pursuing the biological roots of schizophrenia have identified a potential factor - a normal brain process that gets kicked into overdrive - that could lead to breakthroughs in the prevention or treatment of the condition.

The result, accomplished by analysis of genetics, autopsy brain tissue and laboratory mice, is "going to be a game-changer" in terms of understanding schizophrenia and offering routes for treatment and potential for prevention, said Bruce Cuthbert, acting deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which helped fund the research.

An expert unconnected to the research, which was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, said the study's conclusion was not yet proven, but plausible

Almost 1 percent of the general population will have schizophrenia at some point in their lives. They may hear voices or hallucinate, talk about strange ideas, or believe others are reading their minds or plotting against them.

Nobody knows what causes the disorder, so the new result offers a possible peek into a black box. 

The finding might pertain to "a very substantial fraction of cases, maybe most cases, even," said senior author Steven McCarroll, of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The result links schizophrenia risk to a problem with a normal process that happens in adolescence and early adulthood, when disease symptoms often appear. That age range is when the brain trims back the number of specialised places on brain cells where the cells signal to each other, called synapses. The new work suggests a connection to schizophrenia when this process gets out of hand, deleting too many synapses.

"It's like you have a gardener who was supposed to prune the bushes and just got overactive," Cuthbert observed. "You end up with bushes that are pruned way too much."

The result does not mean that over-pruning causes schizophrenia on its own. It could promote the condition in combination with other factors in the brain, McCarroll said.

The work began with a genetic investigation. Previous analysis of the human DNA indicates more than 100 places that influence the risk of getting schizophrenia, but detailed biological explanations for those influences are very rare. The new work identified a risk gene and found evidence for the over-pruning idea.

Drawing on DNA data from 28,799 people with schizophrenia and 35,986 people without it, the researchers found that a gene called C4 can raise a person's risk by about 30 percent over that of the general population.

The gene comes in several forms, and researchers examining brain tissue found evidence that the forms that pose the highest risk of schizophrenia were also the most active in the brain. In lab mice, they found that the gene plays a key role in pruning synapses.

The study does not directly demonstrate that excessive pruning of synapses plays a role in schizophrenia, but the idea makes sense, McCarroll said. It ties together previous observations, among them that schizophrenia most often develops during youth and that patients' brains show unusually few synapses, he said.

Kenneth Kendler - a schizophrenia genetics expert at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, who did not participate in the project - said that the work presents an impressive array of results.

The evidence that C4 can raise schizophrenia risk is strong, he said. The proposal that it does so through excessive pruning of synapses is "plausible and interesting, but not yet fully convincing".

"We don't yet know [whether] their hypothesis is completely true," Kendler added, but the work is still "a pretty big deal".

If it is true, scientists can think about finding drugs that would intervene, McCarroll said. They might be useful to give when young people show symptoms that suggest they may be on the road to developing schizophrenia. And even after the diagnosis, such drugs might keep the disease from getting worse, he said.

But any such treatments are years away, he cautioned. culled from www.aljazeeera.com

Zika virus vaccine 'could take three to five years

Researchers call for new incentives for drug companies after outbreak of mosquito-borne virus spreads to 21 countries.

Researchers say developing a vaccine for the Zika virus - suspected of causing brain damage in babies - could take up to five years, as health experts called for new incentives for drug companies.

The Zika outbreak, which the World Health Organization says is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, follows the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which also caught health authorities off guard.

"We've got no drugs and we've got no vaccines. It's a case of deja vu because that's exactly what we were saying with Ebola," Trudie Lang, a professor of global health at the University of Oxford, told Reuters. "It's really important to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible."

A Brazilian mother bathes her son, who has been diagnosed with microcephaly, in a bucket of water, to help calm him [AP]

Large drugmakers' investment in tropical disease vaccines with uncertain commercial prospects has so far been patchy, but the pace of the outbreak has demonstrated how quickly little-known diseases can emerge as global threats.

"We need to have some kind of a plan that makes [companies] feel there is a sustainable solution and not just a one-shot deal over and over again," Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health, said last week.

The Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute, which is currently leading the research charge on Zika, says it plans to develop a vaccine  "in record time", although its director has warned this is likely to take three to five years.

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline also told sources on Monday it was studying the feasibility of using its vaccine technology on Zika, while France's Sanofi said it was reviewing possibilities.

30 times more cases

Brazil's Health Ministry in November announced it suspected that links existed between the mosquito-borne Zika virus and a foetal deformation, known as microcephaly, in which infants are born with smaller-than-usual brains.

The WHO has described circumstantial evidence of the link as "suggestive and extremely worrisome".

Brazil has reported 3,893 suspected cases of microcephaly, the WHO said last Friday, over 30 times more than had been reported in any year since 2010.

The outbreak has prompted El Salvador, Eduador and Colombia to warn women to delay getting pregnant.

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The disease's rapid spread to 21 countries and territories of the region since May 2015 is caused by a lack of immunity among the population and the prevalence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the virus, the WHO said.

The pace of the outbreak prompted Margaret Chan, the WHO's director-general, to call for changes in how the organisation responds to emergencies.

"The complexity of humanitarian emergencies underscores the need for transformational changes in our response capacity." she said. source: aljazeera and reuters.

Cancer Treatments The Media Never Talks About Could Save Your Life!

Welcome To The “Cancer Tutor” Website

The average person believes these 5 things about cancer:
1) Cancer is caused by DNA damage in the cancer cells,
2) Cancer researchers are diligently looking for ways to cure cancer by fixing this DNA damage,
3) A cure for cancer is at least 40 years away.
4) If a cure for cancer were found, all oncologists would immediately start using it for their patients.
5) Not even God is smart enough to cure cancer.

All 5 of these statements are total nonsense.

The first statement isFALSEas will be explained below.
The second statement isIRRELEVANTbecause the first statement is false.
The third statement isFALSEbecause there are already scores of ways to cure cancer.
The fourth statement isFALSEas will be explained below.
The fifth statement is totally absurd – God designed the DNA of all species, but more importantly, God has putmany curesfor cancer in Mother Nature.

Here is the TRUTH!

Everyone in both natural medicine and orthodox medicine agrees that Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg was correct when he discovered that the definition of a cancer cell is a cell with low ATP energy (Note: ATP energy, or adenosine triphosphate, are small molecules which are mostly made inside the mitochondria of every cell and they provide the energy for all cells. A cell with low ATP energy is very weak and isdefinedto be a “cancer cell”).

While there might be DNA damage in a cancer cell, fixing this DNA damage wouldnotcure the cancer. Any DNA damage in a cancer cell is anunintended side-effectof what really causes cancer, it isnotthe root cause of the cell being cancerous. More on this in a moment.

The truth is that even if cancer researchers could fix the DNA damage it wouldNOTcure the cancer!! It is hard to imagine a cell biologist who is so mathematically challenged that they think that DNA damage can block ATP energy in the cell. DNA damage in cells is intotally random places. But it would takeincredibly precise DNA damageto block the production of ATP. The theory that DNA damage causes cancer is mathematical nonsense.

Here is another myth: cancer patients assume that oncologists would jump at the chance to use a new drug which has a higher cure rate for cancer. However, the pharmaceutical industry wouldnever releasea new drug which cured cancer even if they accidentally found one.Curing cancerwould cut into the profits of the super-rich owners of the pharmaceutical industry. Nor would the super-rich owners of the major media (or public media) expose any corruption inthe cancer industry.

Another misconception the general public has is they believe that oncologists are looking for the protocols with the highest cure rates. This is nonsense. If oncologists told their patients to do nothing but drink a quart of purple grape juice every day; cure rates for cancer would skyrocket to almost 100% (instead of the current 2.1% 5-year cure rates).

What oncologist would get rich telling their patients to go to a health food store and drink a quart of purple grape juice every day (called the “Brandt Grape Cure” on this website)? Or what oncologist would get rich telling their patients to go to a health food store and drink a quart of carrot juice (with a little beet juice mixed in) every day? Both of these are excellent cancer treatments with very high cure rates.

What oncologists do sometimes, to hide their dismal 2.1% 5-year cure rate, is to give their patients a six-month cure rate (i.e. the percent of their patients who live for six-months after diagnosis). Oncologists know exactly what is going on.

Nor would any health insurance company be allowed to pay for a cancer patient who used carrot juice or purple grape juice. Health insurance companies are regulated by the state insurance departments. State insurance departments are just as corrupt (or stupid) as the federal FDA (Food and Drug Administration, which is the federally-funded private “police force” for the pharmaceutical industry). The job of the FDA is tocrushcures for cancer, especially cures developed by natural medicine experts.

Natural medicine productscannot be patented, which is precisely why they are not used in “modern medicine”! It is the patents of worthless drugs for cancer that create much of the massive profits of orthodox medicine.

All of this should give you an introduction into how deep the pharmaceutical industry money-bag controls things and how corrupt modern medicine really is.

The media (which is owned by the super-rich), the federal government, the state governments, etc. are all controlled by the massive money of Big Pharma. And the medical cartel is in bed with Big Pharma.

I have some really bad news for all of these people: God is not stupid and God does not take bribes. You live the Golden Rule or you go to hell. If you don’t believe me study the King James Version of Luke 16:19-31 in the New Testament, which is the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Ask yourself: why did the rich man go to hell? Because he did not live the Golden Rule with respect to the beggar, whom he likely saw every day. And the Old Testament also has many references to the Golden Rule.

Treating cancer is not a game. You live the Golden Rule and do the best you can to help cancer patients or you face the consequences.

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Introduction To Natural Medicine

So let’s talk about what really causes cancer so that you understand why cancercan be cured.In fact, cancer cells can be easily bereverted into normal cells.

Cancer (low ATP energy) is actually caused by a unique, pleomorphicbacteriawhich gets inside of cells and blocks the production of ATP energy by intercepting glucose (bacteria love to eat glucose). Less glucose means less pyruvate and less pyruvate means less ATP energy (of course this is simplified but accurate). When these cells divide there are bacteria in both cells, which is how cancer spreads. These bacteria were first discovered in1890by pathologist William Russell (1852-1940). If you want a quick peek at this microbe see this article:
Advanced Cancer Theory

Cancer researchersof natural medicineknow how to gently REVERT cancer cells into normal cells by killing these bacteria or by gently killing the cancer cells using things from Mother Nature. For example, gentle electromedicine devices, first designed in the 1930s, are so gentle thatthey are only strong enough to kill microbes.But that ispreciselywhat they were designed to do! On this website these devices are code-named “High RF Frequency Protocol” devices (this is not their real name due to the corruption in the FDA, which essentially works for the pharmaceutical industry and persecutes natural medicine every chance they get).

Another factor in dealing with cancer is the immune system. Every adult on this planet has cancer cells. But for most people their immune system routinely kills the cancer cells. So when a person is diagnosed with cancer it is almost certain that they have a weak immune system. This is frequently because there are microbes and/or parasites in the organs which steal food from the organs and thus weaken the organs which in turn weakens the immune system. A “liver flush” isdefinedto be a cancer treatment designed to kill these microbes and/or parasites.

Devices such as aQuantum Pulseor a High RF Frequency Protocol device are electromedicine devices which can energize cells to help restore the immune system. Supplements such as Transfer Point Beta Glucan can also help the immune system. The High RF Frequency instruments can generally be afforded as ways to help energize cellsduring or aftergeneric or custom liver flushes.

Natural medicine cure rates are more than30 times higherthan the cure rates of those who use the barbaric, old-school, highly profitable chemotherapy, radiation and surgery (though in rare cases surgery is necessary to remove a tumor in a dangerous location).

God loves His children and has literally put natural cancer-treating chemicals in over a thousand different plants. For example, purple grape juice has more than a dozen chemicals in it that can kill cancer cells. Carrots may have even more. It is quite possible that more people have cured their cancer by drinking a couple of teaspoons of beet juice, mixed in a quart of carrot juice, every day, than probably any other single natural cancer treatment.

God does the workand all we have to do is figure out what God did. People are brainwashed to think that God is stupid. Sorry, but God created the Universe and designed the DNA for every species of plant and animal. Human scientists still have not fully decoded the DNA of an insect, much less human DNA. God is smart and He loves His children. But some people love money more than they love their brothers and sisters.

In other words, we don’t have to know how to cure cancer, God has to know how to cure cancer! And He does!

This “Cancer Tutor” website is a product of thenatural medicine cancer researchersof the Independent Cancer Research Foundation, Inc. (ICRF). Every one of the 350+ articles and chapters was written by a natural medicine cancer researcher.

Over the yearsnatural medicine cancer researchersaround the world have developed highly effective natural cancer treatments which use a combination of tactics to slow down the spread of the cancer; safely and gently kill cancer cells; safely revert cancer cells into normal cells; plus build the immune system so that the immune system can help deal with the cancer.

We tap into these discoveries plus we have made many discoveries ourselves. For example, we have developed many very inexpensive ways to revert cancer cells into normal cells. Many of the products needed to do this can be purchased at a health food store. We do these things because many cancer patients started their cancer treatment with orthodox medicine and they do not have the money for the more expensive natural cancer treatments.

We have also discovered or developed special protocols to help weak cancer patients (e.g. see the “Weak Cancer Patients” link on the left side-bar i.e. the column of links on the left side of almost all pages on this website).

By the way, the natural medicine researchers led by Dr. Virginia Livingston, M.D., discovered why cancer cells may have DNA damage. They discovered that one of the cancer microbes (which really cause the cancer) can get inside the cell nucleus (where the DNA for that cell resides) and the DNA of the microbe can “mix” with the DNA of the cancer cell and damage the DNA of the cell.Fixing this DNA damage is neither important nor necessary! It is the bacteria inside the cancer cells that are important and orthodox medicine totally ignores these bacteria.

Read More: http://www.cancertutor.com/

HEALTHTIPS: 7 BEST S*X POSITIONS FOR A WOMAN FOR MAXIMUM PLEAS...

HEALTHTIPS: 7 BEST S*X POSITIONS FOR A WOMAN FOR MAXIMUM PLEAS...: Men desire the best for their women- health tips.

7 BEST S*X POSITIONS FOR A WOMAN FOR MAXIMUM PLEASURE

Men desire the best for their women- health tips.

WEIGHT LOSS TIPS

Recently I’ve noticed a resurgence of “The Alkaline Diet.” Celebs including Beyoncé, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston and Kelly Ripa tout its benefits – claiming it helps you lose weight, reduce inflammation, and even avoid cancer.
But before you get too dazzled by the celebrity endorsements and hop on the “alkaline” bandwagon, it’s important to know the facts from the hype.
The Premise:
Proponents of The Alkaline Diet say that when we load up on excess amounts of protein, sugar, caffeine and other highly processed foods, our pH levels are thrown off track, our bodies become more acidic, and that can lead to weight gain and disease. The remedy, they say? Eat fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and other “alkaline-promoting foods” such as soy products, legumes, and certain nuts and grains. “Acid-promoting foods”, which include meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, processed foods, white sugar, white flour, and caffeine, are discouraged.
The Science:
The idea of eating a certain way to achieve an ideal pH level has popped up in many diets over the years, so it’s nothing new or groundbreaking. However there is a major flaw with this premise: Our bodies maintain their pH balance regardless of what we eat! In fact, the body has several mechanisms to ensure that pH levels are highly controlled at different specific levels. For example, the stomach has a pH ranging from 1.35-3.5. It must be acidic to aid in digestion. Our blood must always be slightly alkaline, with a pH of 7.35 to 7.45  'Culled from Health Tips'

Never Fake An Orgasm Again

faking orgasm is not harmless after all

 

Faking it happens. A lot. In fact, studies show that 60 percent of women have delivered an Oscar-worthy performance between the sheets. And while it's commonly assumed that women pretend to climax in order to boost a partner's ego or speed up a snoozy romp, new research from Temple University found that for many women, there are other factors at work—among them, a fear of being vulnerable, insecurity about their skills in bed, and the choice to use their faux O as a means to increase their own arousal. While there's little harm in the occasional bluff, here's why you should curb the counterfeit climaxing and find your true peak potential.

Fear of Vulnerability
If a woman isn't emotionally ready to open up to her partner, faking it can be a way to keep the guy at arm's length. A few reasons: She may be wary of becoming too dependent on the guy, or of becoming engulfed by his personality or world and thus losing herself. "There's a vulnerability and emotional risk that comes with climaxing in front of someone," says Yvonne K. Fulbright, Ph.D., author of Sultry Sex Talk to Seduce Any Lover. A fear of rejection or icky issues from a past relationship may also keep a woman from revealing herself. Bona fide O's require "truly surrendering to the experience and not worrying about being judged," she says. But if you resist letting go, it's nearly impossible to be swept up in the awesomely authentic sensations.

O-vercome it: Amp up the trust and intimacy you need inside the bedroom by speaking up more outside of it, says Women's Health advisor Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., author of Because It Feels Good. "Being authentic about expressing who you are is the key to better sex," she says. Start small: Confide a secret or share an embarrassing story, and when he asks where you want to eat dinner, pick a place instead of saying "Anywhere is fine," says Herbenick. "Men and women who are emotionally close will have an easier time being honest with their partner about how sex feels for them—whether it feels good enough to lead to an orgasm," she says. Improve your bond during the day and you'll be more comfortable directing him "to the left, a little softer, now faster"—and ultimately letting yourself let go—when the lights are out.

Self-Consciousness
Some women put on bed-rattling performances because they're insecure about how long it takes them to climax or what it actually takes to get them there, says Vivienne Cass, Ph.D., author of The Elusive Orgasm. "They see these highly orgasmic women in movies and think that's the norm," she says. Meanwhile, men who watch porn—i.e., most of them—are used to seeing women get off in seconds, which adds to the pressure.