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Playing With Dogs Relieves Stress In Humans And Canines Alike

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Playing with dogs relieves stress in humans and canines alike, study shows

Playing with a dog for just 15 minutes can significantly reduce a person's stress, a new study reports.

Even if it is something that is already intuited by pure common sense, science has just shown that playing with a dog for just 15 minutes significantly reduces people's stress.A group of students who are under stress and interacted friendlyly with a dog for a short period of time experienced a reduction in that tension, a lower heart rate and lower levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) in saliva, according to the article with the conclusions o…