Healthy Sexual activity may also boost your intelligence as per a new report. Apart from decreasing stress levels and burning up calories, sex helps in making people brainier. Scientists reached at the conclusion after conducting the study on mice.

The findings showed that the creation of neurons located within the hippocampus was greatly increased by love-making. This is significantly beneficial for the brain as hippocampus is the area responsible for the formation of long-term memory in the brain.

The psychologists from the University of Maryland said that when they deprived mice from having sex, it led to decline in their intelligence.

More amount of oxygen floods into an individual's brain during a sexual activity. Being sexually active is really beneficial for old couples as they have less chances of getting dementia because of boost in creation of neurons in hippocampus, the psychologists said.

"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 added.

The team got further evidence by Konkuk University in South Korea to support their findings on benefits of sex. The Korean study suggested that sex increases intellectuality and allows the brain to act against detrimental functions caused by extreme stress.