How kissing can help in weight loss, improve gut health

When love is in the air, let’s harness the health benefits it offers. Love plays a profound role in health improvement, exerting beneficial effects on both mental and physical well-being. Emotionally, love fosters feelings of security, belonging, and happiness, reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. The emotional fulfillment and companionship found in love and various forms, it is expressed for example, a kiss, contribute to longevity, cardiovascular health, immune function, and overall quality of life, highlighting its essential role in holistic health.

Kiss plays a surprising role in health improvement by triggering physiological responses that benefit overall well-being. When lips touch, a surge in oxytocin, the “love hormone,” occurs, reducing stress and increasing feelings of bonding and intimacy. Kissing also boosts dopamine and serotonin levels, promoting pleasure and happiness.

“Happy Valentine’s day. A kiss a day keeps the doctor away,” says Prashant Desai, Longevity Sherpa, Stanford School of Medicine (Nutrition Science, Exercise Physiology, Gut Health and highlights the effect of a kiss on overall health.

Kiss passionately, lose weight!

Happy Valentine’s day. A kiss a day keeps the doctor away. And like the famous chips Ad, when it comes to kisses, no one can have just one. Welcome to the world of philematology (scientific study of kissing).

Passionate kissing burns upto 26 calories a minute. 15 minutes ~400 calories! 200% more than 60 minutes of walking. Kiss, and lose weight. A simple kiss won’t do, burns only 3 calories. This Valentine, kiss your partner passionately!

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Kissing betters heart health: When you kiss passionately, your heart rate increases, betters heart health. Ditto in exercise. Increased HR increased blood flow vessel dilate has shown to also improve menstrual cramps and headaches.

Kissing impacts your gut microbiome: During kissing, as many as 10 million to 1 billion bacteria representing 278 different species may be exchanged during an active kiss, with 95% of these organisms classified as non pathogenic for individuals who are immunologically competent.

Kissing and emotional health: Lips are 100 to 200 times more sensitive than the fingertips. When you kiss, the brain releases endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and lowers cortisol (stress hormone). Next time feeling sad, depressed, you know what to do!

Kissing protects from cavities: Cavities are caused by bacteria present in the mouth that burn sugars from food. We reduce cavities by either cleaning the teeth off and eating a lower sugar diet. Kissing will increase saliva flow in your mouth.

Several websites reported that men who kissed their partners every morning live 5 years longer and make more money than men who fail to do this common morning ritual

Forget all the above, just kiss, spread love this Valentine’s day!, he concludes.