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How close relationships keep us healthy and happy, with Richard Slatcher, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Relationships and Health Psychology

The most compelling evidence for relationships linking health are mortality findings. Mortality is pretty easy to measure, whereas when you're measuring something like pro inflammatory sidicins from a one shot blood draw, our sidacin levels fluctuate greatly across the day. We have some pretty consistent evidence that positive social relationships are associated with a steeper decline in cors all throughout the day.

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