The Health Benefits of Kissing

Why Kissing Is Good for Your Health

Older couple kissing.  Reigniting and spicing up marriage.

 

Kissing, that intimate act of two people pressing their lips and mouths together, with or without tongue, is the most gentle and yet most revealing sexual act. How a person kisses and how they respond to being kissed says volumes about a person: how sexually skillful they are; comfortable with their sexuality; and how much of themselves they want to give.

In addition to being the gateway to other sexual acts, kissing, it turns out is very good for your overall physical and mental health. Here are some little-known reasons why you should kiss often, and extract the most benefits out of every kiss.

Kissing encourages romantic bonding. Kissing is a way of romantically bonding to another person, bonding being an important part of any relationship. Each time you kiss, your bond grows stronger, making you feel more grounded and stable in your personal relationship.

Kissing burns calories.  Kissing is indeed a form of exercise. Not only does it promote flexibility and tone the muscles of the face, lips, and cheeks, kissing genuinely burns calories. Kissing for twenty minutes might not burn calories like the same time spent on a treadmill, but it will burn the same number of calories you took in eating a half dozen M&M’s.

Kissing is a stress reliever. Research has proven that kissing lowers cortisol levels, which is the stress hormone. Kissing promotes positive energy, and results in a sense of well being. A languid session of kissing is relaxing, and can relieve physical tension in the back and the neck. Kissing is heart healthy. Kissing increases adrenaline, pumps more blood around the heart, decreases blood pressure, and if done on a regular basis, has been shown to lower cholesterol. High cholesterol can be caused in part by an increase in stress. And it’s well proven that kissing reduces stress. Kissing produces natural antibiotics. Natural antibiotics produced by kissing which are secreted in the saliva. Research has shown that these natural antibiotics are known to offer pain relief. Maybe that’s why when moms kiss their young children’s boo-boo’s; that motherly gesture offers much more than emotional relief. Kissing can make you live longer. A recent study showed that people who kiss their partner goodbye every morning can add up to five years to their lifespan.  
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