Some people are afraid to get in action of lips to lips meaning kissing. Well then you should know that kissing is of great advantage not only physically but also mentally and biologically.
8 Health Benefits of Kissing
1. Reduce Your Blood Pressure
Kissing helps to dilate your blood vessels, which may help lower your blood pressure.
2. Relieve Cramps and Headaches
The blood-vessel-dilation effect described above also helps to relieve pain, particularly from headache or menstrual cramps.
3. Fight Cavities
When you kiss, saliva production increases in your mouth, and this
helps to wash away plaque on your teeth that may lead to cavities. That
said, cavity-causing bacteria can also be transmitted via a kiss,
especially if the person you’re kissing has poor oral habits. It’s even
been shown that cavity-causing bacteria can spread from a mother’s kiss
to her baby.3
4. Release Your Happy Hormones
Kissing prompts your brain to release a happy elixir of feel-good
chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. This isn’t only
important for your happiness, it also may also help to strengthen your
relationship. As MSN reported:4
“’This [oxytocin] is the hormone of love, and the better the
oxytocin levels, the more capacity for love,’ explains psychotherapist
Arthur Janov, Ph.D., author of ‘The Biology of Love’ and the
director of the Primal Center in Santa Monica, Calif. ‘We have found
that those who cannot commit in a love relationship are low in
oxytocin.’”
Interestingly, kissing activates the same areas in your brain linked to reward and addiction.5 According to the researchers who revealed this finding:6
“Kissing may have evolved as a way to stimulate brain systems
associated with sex drive, romantic love, and attachment so that humans
are triggered to seek a variety of potential mates, then focus attention
on one for mating, and finally be able to tolerate that mate long
enough to raise a child as a team.”
Your lips are also densely packed with sensory neurons, which are
stimulated by the touch of another’s lips. This prompts the release of
sebum, which is thought to play a role in bonding.7
5. Burn Calories
It’s not going to replace your workout session… but a vigorous kiss may burn 8-16 calories. Not too shabby for a kiss.
6. Boost Your Self-Esteem
One study found that men who received a passionate kiss before they left for work earned more money.8
This suggests the kiss (and perhaps the happy home-life it suggests)
makes people happier, boosts self-esteem and, ultimately, more
productive at work.
7. Tone Your Facial Muscles
A vigorous kiss helps you shape up your neck and jawline by working out a number of facial muscles.
8. Check Out Your Partner’s Compatibility
A kiss can be a powerful measure of your initial attraction to a
person, so much so that the majority of men and women surveyed reporting
that a first kiss could be a turn-off. Women, in particular, place more
importance on kissing as a “mate assessment device” and as a means of
“initiating, maintaining, and monitoring the current status of their
relationship with a long-term partner.”9
Kissing May Even Boost Your Immune System and Provide Significant Stress Relief
The average person spends more than 20,000 minutes of their life kissing,10
and for very good reason. In addition to the benefits above, kissing
has been shown to boost your immune system and reduce allergic responses
in people with skin or nasal allergies.11
Separate research also revealed that people who spent six weeks
making kissing a priority with their partners reported significant
decreases in their levels of stress. In addition to improvements in
stress, the kissing participants also reported greater relationship
satisfaction and improvements in total cholesterol.12
There may actually be an even more primal reason for why “kissing”
developed, however. Because some cultures don’t include kissing in their
mating rituals, it’s possible the first kiss was given by a mother to
her child rather than being shared between a couple.
Psychologists conjecture that kiss-feeding – exchanging pre-masticated
food from one mouth to another -- was how babies received the nutrients
needed to grow up strong and healthy either in addition to, or after,
breastfeeding. This jump starts the digestion process and makes vitamins
like B-12 more easily absorbable while also promoting attachment and
bonding.
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