{"id":8106,"date":"2024-06-29T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aipflorida.com\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2024-06-27T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:12:16","slug":"hug-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aipflorida.com\/es\/blog\/hug-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hug Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Power of Hugs and How They Affect Our Daily Health<\/h2>\n
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Learn more about SCL Health’s\u00a0Integrative Medicine Services and Treatments.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you a hug or a handshake kind of person? If you\u2019re the latter, you might want to reconsider the power a hug can have on your health. As it turns out, that big purple dinosaur might have been on to something when he decided that hugs were the standard greeting. We all know hugs can be comforting during hard times, but why not start making it a regular part of your day? We have a few reasons below to start doing just that.<\/p>\n

Hugging helps lower our stress throughout the day.<\/h2>\n

You know how drinking too much coffee can kind of put us on edge for the next few hours? Well, hugging can actually have the opposite effect. Like so many other unseen benefits, this all goes back to good ol\u2019 hormones.\u00a0Some researchers<\/a>\u00a0believe that hugging and other interpersonal touch can boost a hormone called oxytocin and also affect our endogenous opioid system. Big words, right? But basically it boils down to this: Simply through the act of hugging, our brains can produce soothing chemicals that help us feel more safe and less threatened throughout the day. So when something stressful\u00a0does<\/em>\u00a0come up, we don\u2019t have such an aggressive fight-or-flight response to it.<\/p>\n

Hugs can also give our immune system a healthy boost.<\/h2>\n

Okay, this benefit goes hand in hand with the one above. Maybe you\u2019ve noticed how it\u2019s so much easier to get sick when you\u2019re stressed out. That\u2019s because our immune system kicks into overdrive when we\u2019re feeling stressed, and it can actually backfire to make us more susceptible to illness.\u00a0One study found<\/a>\u00a0that people who were hugged and felt socially supported also experienced less severe signs of sickness.<\/p>\n

Hugs might even lower heart rates and blood pressure.<\/h2>\n

The University of North Carolina\u00a0conducted a study<\/a>\u00a0with 59 women and found some interesting results. After a short series of questions and general chatting about their partner, some women ended each session with a 20-second hug. The women who received a hug from their partners had lower blood pressure and heart rates during stressful sections of testing. The researchers think that oxytocin (that we mentioned earlier) might be the cause for their better heart health.<\/p>\n

A few good squeezes could lead to decreased depression.<\/h2>\n

All of us can probably agree that sometimes there\u2019s nothing like a hug when you\u2019re feeling blue.\u00a0A retirement home in New York<\/a>\u00a0decided to take this idea to a systematic level and implement a program called \u201cEmbraceable You.\u201d It was a push for more contact between the older residents and staff members so as to improve the residents\u2019 well-being. As it turned out, the residents who received three or more hugs per day felt less depressed, had more energy, could concentrate easier and slept better.<\/p>\n

So the next time you\u2019re going in for a handshake, try a hug and see how you feel afterward!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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