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Sleeping with someone else is healthy
 
 
Frank Cotolo
October 1, 2015
 
Science is always surprising people. History tells us some of the claims made by science have caused great turmoil for mankind because old beliefs die hard and people are quick to jump out of windows when their beliefs are threatened, no less disproved. But this latest scientific claim is going to make a lot of people happy.
 
Studies done in a report based on the studies show that sleeping with a partner is more healthy than sleeping alone. Yes, health is in the mix when it comes to sharing a bed with someone close to you but of course if someone is sharing a bed with you they will have to be close to you.
 
Scientists say that intimate partners sleeping together regularly supports a longer life for each. This defies another study that some time ago claimed that women don't sleep as well with someone as they do alone and that more couples than not move around more when in bed with another person.
 
Nestle Brock, PhD., said, "There are psychological benefits that outweigh how the body cares for itself when sleeping alone. And speaking of outweighing, it doesn't matter which of the pair is heavier."
 
The study also claims that women in stable relationships fall asleep faster when they are sleeping with their spouse. Many men involved in the study did not like the idea that their partner fell to sleep more quickly, mostly because, as one man in the study said, "We want to have more sex, not more sleep."
 
Brock admitted this was a drawback. "Not all men felt that way, though. Some men were happy their mates fell to sleep. One, in fact, said he developed a fetish that requires his mate go to sleep before he is able to have sex. He enjoys watching her sleep and completing the act himself."
 
Another scientist involved in the study, said, "The hormone oxcytocin, which is called the love hormone, becomes very active when there is sleeping between two people in a good relationship. With oxcytocin brewing, anxiety lessens as well does the fear of being trapped in a taxi with Oprah Winfrey."
 
Also, it was learned that couples sleeping in the nude together woke up both feeling refreshed and excited about flaky cereal for breakfast. Couples that wore pajamas, especially if the pajamas were adorned with drawings of animals, often dreamed of being chased and caged and woke up jittery, feeling like they needed a bath.
 
"We will not take the study to the next step," said Brock, "which involves three-way sleeping and its affect on which sex wants to go to sleep more quickly than the other."
 
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