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A successful marriage is a good way to improve your health and live to be 100!
Mutual love and a happy marriage are also a great opportunity to improve your health. Studies confirm that happy couples live longer and get sick less often - maybe because they want to enjoy happiness as long as possible? Here are the health problems that a happy marriage helps to solve.
Spouses have lower risk of age-related dementia
One in three older adults is at risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. If you want to be among the other two, get married: According to some studies, married people have a 43% lower risk of developing the disease than their unmarried counterparts.
Married people have lower blood pressure
Hypertension is a real scourge that affects people in old age. High blood pressure is very dangerous, as it seriously increases the risk of heart disease, as well as stroke. According to the results of a study conducted by specialists from Brigham Young University, happily married people have lower blood pressure than their unmarried peers.
Family members have lower stress levels
Chronic stress seriously increases the risk of developing diseases that directly affect life expectancy: diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer. At the same time, those people who are happy in their family life have significantly lower levels of daily stress - and this is logical: after all, the opportunity to talk about their problems and receive unconditional support helps relieve stress.
Married people have lower risk of lung disease
Study results show that being in a long-term relationship improves lung function in older adults. Want to take a deep breath? Get married, gentlemen, get married!
Marriage increases the chances of successful cancer treatment
Unfortunately, marriage does not affect the chances of getting cancer, but it does increase the likelihood of successful treatment. Thus, a study published in the journal Cancer confirmed that marriage increases the chances of cancer treatment by 27% in men and by 19% in women. First of all, this is because attentive spouses can notice the first signs of cancer in time.
Marriage improves heart health
First, marriage helps maintain healthy blood pressure levels, and second, marriage increases the chances of successful recovery from a heart attack.
Married women are less likely to experience mental disorders
Depression, anxiety disorders, and other illnesses of this type — married women are less likely to experience all these troubles than their unmarried friends. But only in one case: if the marriage is happy and the husband provides enough support and attention.
