NEW STUDY: FREQUENT SEX MAY PREVENT COLDS

Brutuskend

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Wireless Flash) ? Here?s a treatment that?s a treat: new research suggests frequent sex may help prevent colds.

A study conducted by researchers at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, reveals that people who make love once or twice a week are more immune to colds than folks who abstain from sex.

Researchers believe bedroom activity somehow stimulates an immune-boosting antibody called IgA. Levels of the antibody in people who have sex at least once or twice per week is higher than in those who abstain.

The bad news for people who think they?ve found a fun cure for the common cold is that having sex more than twice a week won?t help you fight off colds at all.

People who have sex three or more times a week actually have lower levels of IgA than those who do it only once or twice a week.
 

RossMAN

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JackBurton

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Oooo, that's great news. 5 times a week and it's even with a woman. :) No wonder I'm in great shade. ;)
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Oooo, that's great news. 5 times a week and it's even with a woman. :) No wonder I'm in great shade. ;)

you suck at reading the article. and, you can't spell.
 

PanzerIV

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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Oooo, that's great news. 5 times a week and it's even with a woman. :) No wonder I'm in great shade. ;)

It said more than twice negates the supposed benefit. So, you're just having fun, not having fun and fighting off colds. :D

"People who have sex three or more times a week actually have lower levels of IgA than those who do it only once or twice a week."
 

JackBurton

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Oooo, that's great news. 5 times a week and it's even with a woman. :) No wonder I'm in great shade. ;)

It said more than twice negates the supposed benefit. So, you're just having fun, not having fun and fighting off colds. :D

"People who have sex three or more times a week actually have lower levels of IgA than those who do it only once or twice a week."

You're right, I didn't read it right. Man, that sucks! Oh well, I can deal with a cold. ;)
 

JackBurton

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Oooo, that's great news. 5 times a week and it's even with a woman. :) No wonder I'm in great shade. ;)

you suck at reading the article. and, you can't spell.
You're right too. WTF? Shade? I think it is affecting my spelling too. :(
 

DT4K

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Someone needs to post a .. umm... slightly edited version of this article somewhere.

EDIT: and the thread title needs changed to say SEMI-FREQUENT.
 

MrScott81

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who the hell thinks up these stupid experiments anyway?

"Hmmm, let's see how the number of times someone has sex per week affects their Iga level"
 

KB

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I think this is a correlation vs causation problem. It is more likely that healthier people with higher lga levels have more sex because they are healthier, or that frequent excercise, including sex, leads to higher lga levels. So it is not sexand only sex that actually raises the lga levels. But I am not going to tell that to my girlfriend, no way.
 

TurtleMan

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I am going to tell my wife about it, so we can get it going on more ;]
hey i am just trying to help her and immune her from getting cold .

:D