8 Ways Kissing Boosts Your Health - Neinstein Plastic Surgery

The smooch or the kiss–nothing is so sweet in a relationship.

The kiss can mean various things. It can be subtle, sweet, passionate and even boring! Yet, this act is often overlooked as more emphasis is always on the benefits of sex. But don’t discount the power of the kiss author of Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life’s Sweetest Pleasures, explained to a CNN audience. “Kissing is intimate: You’re right there in the space of your soul. It gets to the core of your heart and spirit because it’s such a lovely way to express and receive love and affection. A kiss a day really can keep the doctor away.”
If this is true then maybe we can add more kissing to our schedules? Here are 8 ways kissing can boost your health and possibly change your life.

It lowers blood pressure.

Expressing affection through kissing can be a powerful force as the act can lower the blood pressure. The reason for this is that it gives your heart a workout as it dilates the blood vessels and helps blood get to the organs better. It gets better for lovers as improves blood circulation throughout the body in the body. But how does this really work? Ryan Neinstein, M.D., shared with Glamour that our lips are made up of blood vessels and kissing distributes the blood better. “The blood is then directed toward the face and away from the rest of the body, so the demand on the heart goes down, resulting in lower blood pressure.”