“Two hearts and a hut”. How many times mottos of this type remind us how a satisfying life as a couple can become a sort of “passport” for physical as well as psychological well-being. But perhaps, now, the saying could change, becoming “two hearts and one beat”.
As in a romantic song or in a romance novel, in fact it seems that in long-standing couples, when the partners are close to each other, the heart rate tends to synchronize.
What makes him suspect is a research coordinated by Brian Oglosky of the University of Illinois, published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. According to the study, there are two factors at the basis of this sort of “self-regulation” of heart rate: on the one hand, obviously, the emotional state counts (if you are not in harmony, obviously the “distance” also tends to increase on the front. heart rate, so the effect is not always positive.
On the other hand, however, couples who have been together for decades and know each other well, if there are no tensions, would exploit the simple physical proximity to truly become one, at least in terms of the number of heartbeats.
To reach this conclusion, the overseas experts have taken into consideration ten pairs, over-64 years old, with long-term relationships, from 14 to 65 years.
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He and she were followed up for 14 days, with a focus on heart rate and physical proximity over the 24 hours. To obtain this information, the study subjects wore a wearable device capable of measuring heart rate and another device, to detect the presence of the partner in the immediate vicinity. Furthermore, the whole house has been equipped with sensors so as to be able to perceive the physical proximity between partners in real time.
Both in the morning and in the evening the participants were “heard”, to remind them to wear the frequency meter and that the detector of nearby people. Then the observations began. And a clear relationship has emerged between physical proximity and heart rate synchronization, although no clear male or female “dominance” has been observed in this regard.
Sometimes, just by being close, it happened that it was her heart rhythm that drove his, in other cases the opposite. Furthermore, it is not always one of the two members of the couple who “makes the tempo”, like a metronome. In some cases she guides her and adapts to them, in others the male rhythm guides the female one, in what the expert has defined as a “dance”.
In any case, this study confirms once more how heart health “follows” the well-being of the couple.
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Just think in this sense of the study by the Cardiovascular Research Group ofKeele University in the UK, appeared some time ago on Heart and carried out by evaluating the data of 34 studies on the impact of the two-way relationship on cardiovascular diseases. the survey shows that those who did not have a married life because they were never married, divorced or widowed showed a 42 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease in general terms and 16 percent as regards coronary heart disease specifically. Furthermore, being unmarried was associated with a higher risk of death from coronary heart disease (42 percent), and especially of stroke (55 percent). Furthermore, divorce represents a time of “rupture” also in terms of arterial health.
For both men and women, separation would be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease equal to 35 percent, while widowhood would have a lower weight: probably even for older age, the risk would increase by 16 percent. suffering from a stroke. Finally, the risk of heart attack would still be higher in those who have never found a soul mate than in those who are happily married.
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