Beauty and The Buzz
Can Your Partner's Health Affect Your Own? Yes, It Can! by Kerry Gray
Did you know that your partner's health and bad habits influence how healthy or sick you will be down the road? The person you choose will have long lasting effects and consequences on your own health.
We hook up with people who are like us. Opposites might attract in the short term, but opposites often do not stay together. Our longest unions are with people who share our background, culture, and, unfortunately, our
bad health habits.
If we drink or smoke, we tend to choose partners who drink or smoke, too. If we overeat, or smoke pot, we feel an affinity with those who do the same. Many early dating scenarios have couples sharing smokes, drinks, and other vices. Living together and then marrying keeps those bad habits alive.
On the other hand, when one partner quits, the other partner is more likely to quit also. A recent study at Yale School of Public Health showed that when one partner quit smoking, the other was six to eight times more likely to give up cigarettes also.
If one gave up alcohol, the other was five times more likely to stop drinking. Those benefits extended to other health scenarios. If one partner got a flu shot or a cholesterol test, the other was more likely to do the same.
Couples develop and share the same health conditions in ways researchers are just now beginning to understand. Soul mates often develop the same illnesses over time. This is true for cancer, stroke, arthritis, hypertension, asthma, depression, and ulcers. One study showed that a person's high blood pressure risk doubled when their spouse was diagnosed with high blood pressure.
These same health conditions might develop because spouses share meals, activity patterns, financial resources and social networks. They also influence each other's happiness, depression and anxiety. Insomnia or snoring in one partner can have a major impact on the other by robbing them of their own sleep.
Doctors know that not enough sleep can have deep, long lasting effects on long term health. Many health conditions like these are currently being studied to see if spouses will share a tendency to develop the same illness.
The lesson is, when you're picking out a partner and contemplating a trip to the alter, take a good long look at their health habits.
Do they heave health conditions or habits that might influence your own health over the years? They might affect you in ways you never imagined, until now.
Kerry Gray, the Love Doctor
Did you know that your partner's health and bad habits influence how healthy or sick you will be down the road? The person you choose will have long lasting effects and consequences on your own health.
We hook up with people who are like us. Opposites might attract in the short term, but opposites often do not stay together. Our longest unions are with people who share our background, culture, and, unfortunately, our
bad health habits.
If we drink or smoke, we tend to choose partners who drink or smoke, too. If we overeat, or smoke pot, we feel an affinity with those who do the same. Many early dating scenarios have couples sharing smokes, drinks, and other vices. Living together and then marrying keeps those bad habits alive.
On the other hand, when one partner quits, the other partner is more likely to quit also. A recent study at Yale School of Public Health showed that when one partner quit smoking, the other was six to eight times more likely to give up cigarettes also.
If one gave up alcohol, the other was five times more likely to stop drinking. Those benefits extended to other health scenarios. If one partner got a flu shot or a cholesterol test, the other was more likely to do the same.
Couples develop and share the same health conditions in ways researchers are just now beginning to understand. Soul mates often develop the same illnesses over time. This is true for cancer, stroke, arthritis, hypertension, asthma, depression, and ulcers. One study showed that a person's high blood pressure risk doubled when their spouse was diagnosed with high blood pressure.
These same health conditions might develop because spouses share meals, activity patterns, financial resources and social networks. They also influence each other's happiness, depression and anxiety. Insomnia or snoring in one partner can have a major impact on the other by robbing them of their own sleep.
Doctors know that not enough sleep can have deep, long lasting effects on long term health. Many health conditions like these are currently being studied to see if spouses will share a tendency to develop the same illness.
The lesson is, when you're picking out a partner and contemplating a trip to the alter, take a good long look at their health habits.
Do they heave health conditions or habits that might influence your own health over the years? They might affect you in ways you never imagined, until now.
Kerry Gray, the Love Doctor
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