A new study has made a startling revelation of how much s*x men must get in a week to be healthy and live well.
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When it comes to s*x, the average man can hardly have enough! But before we start thinking that men are Oliver Twists, a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has suggested that having s*x more frequently can make men healthier!
In the study, researchers asked 2,267 people questions about how often they had s*x, and then took blood samples to run some tests.
They found that men who reported having s*x the least frequently — less than once a month — had significantly higher levels of a chemical called homocysteine than those who had s*x the most, or at least twice a week.
That’s important, since high levels of the amino acid homocysteine have been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, possibly due to damage it inflicts on the blood vessels.
The chemical seems to promote the formation of fatty plaque in the arteries and increase clotting of the blood — both of which can put an individual at risk of a heart attack.
Interestingly, the researchers didn’t find such a link in women. They’re not sure why, but they theorise that it may be because sexual stimulation in women isn’t as dependent on healthy blood flow as it is in men, who need it to get and maintain an erection.
Now, because this was an observational study, it can’t definitively prove it was the frequent sex that caused a reduction in the homocysteine levels.
It could be that guys with low homocysteine levels simply had less sex due to problems with their erection in the first place. While scientists can’t yet prove cause and effect, there certainly isn’t a downside to having more s*x.