{"id":12289,"date":"2017-02-15T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2017-02-16T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T06:52:48","slug":"a-new-research-says-married-individuals-are-less-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-new-research-says-married-individuals-are-less-stressed.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Marriage Does To Stress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 20px 5px 20px 5px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: center; font-size: 15px;\"><strong>&#8220;Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It\u2019s a choice.&#8221;\u00a0-Fawn Weaver<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trend of living together but not getting <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tips-for-happy-marriage.html?q=\/blog\/2016\/06\/tips-for-happy-marriage.html&amp;\"><b>married<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can observed in millennials. But the latest study by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/dietrich\/news\/news-stories\/2017\/february\/why-married-people-are-healthy.html\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/a> concludes that married individuals are healthier than single, divorced or widowed individuals. The study provides biological evidence to explain the impact of marriage on one\u2019s health. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers have published the reports in Psychoneuroendocrinology, stating that unmarried individuals are psychologically more stressed than married individuals. Stress is associated with the increased levels of cortisol which can decreasing the development. Also the body can get prone to various diseases. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 5px 20px 5px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: left; font-size: 18px; color: #26a69a; font-style: italic;\"><b><i><b><i>The researchers have found It has been found that married couples have lower levels of the stress hormone &#8211; cortisol, than those who never married or are not married anymore. <\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12290\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15160616\/new-research-shows-married-people-are-healthier.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12290\" src=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15160616\/new-research-shows-married-people-are-healthier.png\" alt=\"new-research-shows-married-people-are-healthier\" width=\"680\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: www.salon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researcher collected the saliva samples from 572 healthy adults aged 21-55 over three non-consecutive days. These samples were tested for cortisol. It was found that married participants had lower cortisol levels than those who never married.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Cohen, The Robert E. Doherty University Professor of Psychology says,<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 5px 20px 5px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: left; font-size: 18px; color: #26a69a; font-style: italic;\"><b><i><b>\u201cThese data provide important insight into the way in which our intimate social relationships can get under the skin to influence our health,\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers further compared each person\u2019s cortisol rhythm. It was observed that cortisol level is the highest when an individual wakes up and declines during the day. Married individuals showed a faster decline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Chin, a Ph.D student in the Dietrich College, Department of Psychology, says, <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 5px 20px 5px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: left; font-size: 18px; color: #26a69a; font-style: italic;\"><b><i><b><i>\u201cIt\u2019s is exciting to discover a physiological pathway that may explain how relationships influence health and disease\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><b>If you are stressed because you are single or married, you can seek guidance to manage your stress better. #LetsTalkItOut at YourDOST!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It\u2019s a choice.&#8221;\u00a0-Fawn Weaver A trend of living together but not getting married can observed in millennials. 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