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A new study that marital bliss has beneficial health effects. The research is from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. It concludes that married reduces your levels of a stress hormone cortisol. Researchers for cortisol in the saliva of 572 adults aged 21-55 on three different, non-consecutive days. Multiple saliva samples were throughout each 24-hour period. The researchers that the married people in the sample less cortisol than people who single, separated, divorced or widowed. The researchers said: "Married people to be healthier than both the previously and never married, but the mechanisms through which this occurs unclear."

The stress hormone cortisol many different functions in our body. It blood sugar levels, immune responses and inflammation and can the risk of heart disease. It also the chances of surviving cancer. High levels of cortisol have been to mental conditions such as anxiety and depression. Laboratory Director Sheldon Cohen said: "These data important insights into the way in which our intimate social relationships can under the skin to influence our health." Researcher Brian Chin : "It is exciting to a physiological pathway that may explain how relationships health and disease."

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