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Getting it on on the regular appears to be a massive safeguard against the blues — and scientists say they’ve calculated the exact number of times per year you should be doing it.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, sexual health researchers looked at healthcare records for nearly 15,000 people and found that having sex at least a few times per month was associated with a lower risk of depression.
Using the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s massive health and nutrition survey, a trio of urologists hailing from China’s Shenzen and Shantou compiled a representative sample of nearly 15,000 Americans aged 20-59 and tracked their healthcare outcomes between the years 2005 and 2016.
With the help of statistical models, the Chinese doctors pinpointed the…