Submitted 5 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis shows
Archived version: archive.ph/WdCJr
“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?
Not to mention “adults and children” by definition encompassing literally all humans 😄
Researchers from the “Creepy Guy At Work Who Won’t Stop Hugging Everyone” Institute?
JK, in case there’s any doubt 😁
Speaking of creepy titles, I actually get paid to touch people to death.
(I’m a hospice massage therapist 😛.)
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!
If they’d asked, I could’ve just told them.
They could have just asked.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
$50 an hour if yall are interested.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
Fuck yeah I’ll touch you for $50/hour! 😃