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Friends Help You Heal Faster

  • August 03, 2004

All of you know how vital friendships and companions are to our own self-esteem. So it may not surprise you about the findings of a new study that found wounded animals without a companion don't heal as quickly as those that do. Researchers looked at the effect social contact had on wound healing in stressed hamsters. Results showed that skin wounds healed nearly twice as fast in hamsters paired with a sibling. These animals also produced less of the stress hormone cortisol than...
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