Live Long and Healthy Simply by Being in Love
Valentine’s Day is approaching. How would you react if
I tell you that you can be relatively healthier than you are and also live
longer just by being in love? Like others, you might scoff at this suggestion
as most people believe that health is primarily dependent upon diet and
exercises. Well, these factors do play an important role but being in love has
also been found by scientists as an important factor deciding the health of an
individual. This means you can now welcome love not just for your emotional
needs but also to become healthier than you are.
Love improves your immunity to keep diseases at bay
Till now, most people believed that love was necessary
for fulfilment of emotional needs and also to have a companion by your side
wherever you went whether it was theatre, friend’s place, or a restaurant. But scientists
now say that being in love also plays a positive role in faster recovery from
diseases. In fact, they say that people who love and are loved also live longer
than people who feel neglected and rejected. Scientists actually found that
wives receiving daily hugs from their husbands produced more amounts of hormone
oxytocin than women who were not hugged by their husbands. Similarly, nursing
moms produced higher quantities of this hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin is a
substance that improves health, fights and keeps cancer away, and also lowers
blood pressure.
Physical benefits of love go unnoticed
Being loved increases the confidence and self esteem
of an individual. It is indeed a very reassuring thought that you have someone
standing by your side in all situations of life. It is only now that scientists
have concluded that being in love also helps in boosting the immunity of the
individual. You hardly notice it that you stay away from minor infections and
diseases when you are in love. You feel healthy and energetic without looking
for any reasons. But this better health is because of the factor of love in
your life that boosts your immunity levels.
Being in love is something that also pushes spouses to
do more exercises when they go to a gym as a couple. This also leads to the
better health of both the partners. This means that you now have a new and
exciting reason to be in love. Love is good not just for your emotional health
but also your physical health.
Dr Ashleigh Street, NUCCA Chiropractor, provides a new educational experience towards wellness care in Orem, Utah.
