The Many Ways Love Can Make You Healthier

4. Love Is Good for Your Heart

“I love you with all my heart.”

“Two hearts beating as one.”

Since the dawn of time, love has been associated with our hearts. Even though science tells us it's all about the brain, it turns out that being in love is linked to heart health. Studies show married people face half the risk of dying from heart disease as unmarried or uncoupled people. That reduced stress response can lower blood pressure and heart rate. Isolation has the exact opposite effect. A 2015 study also found that married people were 14 percent less likely than their unmarried counterparts to die in the hospital after a heart attack. They also stayed in the hospital an average of two days less.