Could Your Husband be Making You Sick?

It's likely. In fact, at one point in time or another, both of you will swear it's a certainty! How many times have you caught yourself thinking or saying "you make me sick?"  Results from research conducted by Ohio State reveal the reasons why.Would you say you and your spouse are good communicators? That is one of the main factors that contribute to healing in your body. In this CNN article we get a glimpse at why this might be:

Why would physical wounds heal more quickly among the better communicators? The researchers at Ohio State who did the study think it might have something to do with oxytocin.

"Oxytocin is a protective hormone," says Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, the lead author of the study, who noted that the better communicators in her study -- the ones whose wounds healed the fastest -- had the highest levels of oxytocin in their blood.

The study was recently published in 2010 in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. Overall, couples with more marital stress have worse immune function and higher blood pressure and heart rates, according to Debra Umberson, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas, who studies couples and stress.