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, regularly gettin' down to some quality hanky panky goes a long way to protect senior citizens against cognitive decline.as the "first nationally representative study of the intersection between social and intimate relationships and healthy aging" by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center — to determine whether older adults' sex lives could be linked in any way to cognitive decline as they age.
The results were striking. Shen found that elders between the ages of 75 and 90 who had sex at least once a week were shown to exhibit better cognitive function than counterparts who were less sexually active — specifically, older folks who hadn't had sex within the past year at the time of the survey — if sexually active at all.
"For adults 62 to 74 years old," the researcher added, "having better sexual quality — both more physical pleasure and emotional satisfaction — was related to better cognitive function five years later."
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