Having More Sex ‘Boosts Your Intelligence’ – Study

(DAILY MAIL) Next time your other half says they're not in the mood for a romantic interlude, try telling them that it could make them brainier. Although it sounds like a clever ploy, psychologists say that making love can boost intelligence. That's in addition to previous research which shows that sex not only helps to decrease your stress levels but also burns up calories.

Although it sounds like a clever ploy, psychologists say that making love can boost intelligence

The latest research, conducted on mice, found that love-making greatly increased the creation of neurons located within the hippocampus, an area of the brain that is responsible for the formation of long-term memory.

And stopping the mice from having sex led to a fall-off in their intelligence, the psychologists from the University of Maryland were quoted as saying.

'We discovered that even though there had been the production of new neurons, the cognitive abilities acquired during the experiment decreased once the mice were subjected to long periods without sexual activity,' they said.

Previous research shows that sex not only helps to decrease your stress levels but also burns up calories.