HEALTH (AND BEAUTY) BENEFITS OF KISSING

In Monaco, everyone does it, but you do not need to live here to reap the health & beauty benefits: Kiss more! Daily kissing helps to:

1. Reduce Your Blood Pressure

Kissing relieves stress and helps to dilate your blood vessels, which may help lower your blood pressure and reduce cholesterol levels.

2. Relieve Cramps and Headaches

The blood-vessel-dilation effect described above also helps to relieve pain, particularly from headache or menstrual cramps.

3. Fight Cavities

When you kiss, saliva production increases in your mouth, and this helps to wash away plaque on your teeth that may lead to cavities. This said, cavity-causing bacteria can also be transmitted via a kiss 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. This isn’t only important for your happiness, it also may also help to strengthen your relationship: people who kiss a lot report more satisfaction with their partner.

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

It’s not going to replace your workout session… but a vigorous kiss may burn 8-16 calories. Not too shabby for a kiss.

6. Boost Your Self-Esteem

One study found that men who received a passionate kiss before they left for work earned more money. This suggests the kiss (and perhaps the happy home-life it suggests) makes people happier, boosts self-esteem and, ultimately, more productive at work.

7. Tone Your Facial Muscles (ah.. we knew there was a beauty connection)

A vigorous kiss helps you shape up your neck and jawline by working out a number of facial muscles.

8. Check Out Your Partner’s Compatibility

A kiss can be a powerful measure of your initial attraction to a person, so much so that the majority of men and women surveyed reporting that a first kiss could be a turn-off. Women, in particular, place more importance on kissing as a “mate assessment device” and as a means of “initiating, maintaining, and monitoring the current status of their relationship with a long-term partner.”

Finally, kissing has been shown to boost your immune system and reduce allergic responses in people with skin allergies ...so kissing does make you more beautiful smiley