8 Amazing Health Benefits Of Kissing You Should Know

 

Kissing is a uniquely human trait which not only feels good but is good for you.
There’s more to kissing than just locking lips. It’s not that you really need an excuse to make kissing a priority, but you’ll want to be doing so often after you discover some of the amazing health benefits associated with kissing.
Andréa Demirjian, author of Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about One of Life’s Sweetest Pleasures, shared eight benefits of kissing with.

1. Reduce Your Blood Pressure
Kissing helps to dilate your blood vessels, making the blood flow in a good, solid fashion and getting to all your vital organs, which may help lower your blood pressure.

2. Relieve Cramps and Headaches

Kissing helps relieve pain, especially headache or menstrual cramps. The blood-vessel-dilation effect described above can really help ease your pain.

3. Fight Cavities
When you kiss, you secrete more saliva, and this helps to wash away plaque on your teeth that may lead to cavities. That said, cavity-causing bacteria can also be transmitted via a kiss, especially if the person you’re kissing has poor oral habits.

4. Release Your Happy Hormones
Kissing prompts your brain to release a happy elixir of feel-good chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin, things you can get from the rush of exercising. This isn’t only important for your happiness, it also may also help to strengthen your relationship.
Your lips are also densely packed with sensory neurons, which are stimulated by the touch of another’s lips. This prompts the release of sebum, which is thought to play a role in bonding.

5. Burn Calories
A vigorous kiss can burn 8 to 16 calories though it compare to your workout session.

6. Boost Your Self-Esteem
One study found that men who received a passionate kiss before leaving for work earned more money. He’s more productive at work as he’s not feeling emotionally distressed. This suggests the kiss makes people happier, boosts self-esteem and, ultimately, more productivity at work.

7. Tone Your Facial Muscles
Kissing deeply can help shape up your neck and jawline. When you are kissing you can tighten and tone a number of facial muscles which your mouth has.

8. Check Out Your Partner’s Compatibility
A kiss can be an excellent way to check out the sexual compatibility between you and a potential partner before getting naked and emotionally involved. Majority of men and women surveyed say that a first kiss could be a turn-off.