Couch Talk W/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

February is the month of love, so it’s time to take the opportunity and show yourself some love too! Find out how to not only live longer but improve the quality of your life, by choosing to have more oxytocin moments and by embracing and recognizing the ones you love and who love you back. [0:20] It’s not just about the number of years in our lives, but our healthspan as well. We are destined for a long life and our quality of life is in our control. [0:40] Oxytocin is one of the leading factors to longevity in our lives. The love we feel in our lives is correlated to the most powerful rejuvenating hormone in our lives. Stress and cortisol is the opposite. When we don’t get a break from the stresses in our life we shorten our lives unnecessarily. [2:45] February is filled with messages of love, but if we’re not feeling love in our life, it can become a stressor. High stress and low oxytocin is the physiology of divorce. [4:10] Dr. Anna received an email from a listener that realized the link between pain du