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NEW - Your Friends Are a Health Behaviour: Dr. Theresa Pauly on Toxic Relationships and Aging
Toxic relationships and aging are directly connected, and Dr. Theresa Pauly says the mechanism is measurable in your saliva.
The quality of your relationships is almost as important to your physical health as smoking, exercise, or body weight. Most people do not think about who they spend time with as a health behavior. Dr. Theresa Pauly's lab does. She measures cortisol, the body's primary stress hormone, and has found that social stressors produce a higher response than physical ones. Holding your hand in a bucket of ice water is hard on the body. Being judged by a critical panel in an…
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