Posted on 11/16/2019 2:49:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We already know that having sex not only feels spectacular, but it’s ridiculously good for your health, too. It boosts your immune system, protects from certain cancers, relieves stress, improves your mood, and helps you sleep better.
And now, thanks to a new study, we also know that it protects you from heart attacks and keeps your ticker in tip-top shape, so clearly, sex truly is a win-win activity and is definitely nature's best medicine.
For the study, researchers tracked 1,165 men between the ages of 40 and 70 for an average of 16 years, and analyzed their health history in order to understand the relationship between sexual activity and cardiovascular health.
The research discovered that the men who had the most sex had the lowest risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and to get into more specifics, those who had sex two to three times per week were 45 percent less likely to have heart problems than those who only got it on once a month.
This study is particularly noteworthy because the researchers took factors like overall health, blood pressure, and whether the men were smokers or not into consideration, and the results still proved that sex alone is a factor powerful enough to reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Aerobic exercise is good for you.
“Here honey, read this. You don’t want me to die do you?”
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isn’t this correlation and not causation?
i would expect that healthier men are having more sex, and not that more sex is making us healthier. in other words, it’s our general good health which allows us to have more sex. the ticker ain’t so good; so, you don’t feel up to it as often. you’re feelin peppy, then thanks to a healthy ticker, sex it is.
also, is this based on averages? so i’m guessing that healthier, younger men are having the most sex, while older codgers with faulty tickers ain’t. so it’s the younger men who skew the results to making it look like frequent sex keeps the heart healthy.
Any politician who gave the finger to a heckler DESERVED to win! He always had my vote for that.
Maybe so, but I fear suffering high-velocity lead-poisoning should my wife find out.
I’m doomed. Laz will live forever.
Doesn’t sex have something to do with chocolate?
Happy was his second wife. He died with Megan Marshack. :)
Excuse me while I go find my wife.
Think my doctor would give me a prescription for that?
Old joke: Wife: “My doctor said I have a yeast infection so no sex for a while.” Hubby: “What did your dentist say?”
That explains my chest pains.
Yep
Despite a corroded diseased heart with congenital defects I’m still screwing and alive at 62
Shoulda been dead by 40
No foolin as FZ would say
It didn’t work for Nelson Rockefeller.
also, is this based on averages? so i’m guessing that healthier, younger men are having the most sex, while older codgers with faulty tickers ain’t. so it’s the younger men who skew the results to making it look like frequent sex keeps the heart healthy.
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The old guys were once young and had a lot of sex and the young guys will be old and have little or no sex. It’s the way it works.
Mary Palmer and her 5 Lovely Daughters
Group sex in a manner of speaking
Well, women don’t get heart attacks, they give them.
Another good example that correlation does not equate to causation. But I guess people can’t figure that out any more.
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