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More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis shows

Archived version: https://archive.ph/WdCJr

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[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$50 an hour if yall are interested.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck yeah I'll touch you for $50/hour! Do you also provide medical and dental?

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Our work illustrates that touch interventions are best suited for reducing pain, depression and anxiety in adults and children as well as for increasing weight gain in newborns,” the researchers write.

Are we just ignoring the fact that touch is making our babies fatter?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not to mention "adults and children" by definition encompassing literally all humans 😄

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

If they'd asked, I could've just told them.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Researchers from the "Creepy Guy At Work Who Won't Stop Hugging Everyone" Institute?

JK, in case there's any doubt 😁

[–] Duranie 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking of creepy titles, I actually get paid to touch people to death.

(I'm a hospice massage therapist 😛.)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sincerely, thank you for doing that job!

As I'm sure you know, any kind of comfort and human connection is the best thing anyone can give people in that last time.

You're a bonafide everyday hero as far as I'm concerned!

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciated the “consensual” caveat.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's an important AF detail lol

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

They could have just asked.