Volunteering Can Be Good For Body And Mind – Nobody Really Knows

How might volunteering contribute to lower blood pressure?

It may also reduce stress.

Performing volunteer work could increase physical activity among people who aren’t otherwise very active, says lead study author Rodlescia Sneed, a doctoral candidate in social and health psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.i was surprised to learn that volunteering has positive implications that go beyond mental health. Warding off loneliness and depression, studies have shown that volunteering helps people who donate their time feel more socially connected. Make sure you write a comment about it below. Evidence of volunteerism’s physical effects can be found in a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University, published this month in Psychology and Aging. Adults over age 50 who volunteered on a regular basis were less gonna develop high blood pressure than ‘non volunteers’. Besides, very interesting post.

Gives me memories of the old adage ‘laughter is top medicine’.

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Contents displayed within this public group, just like text, graphics, and identical material are intended for educational purposes only. By the way, the Content isn’t intended to substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. In the Carnegie Mellon study, 200 volunteering hours per year correlated to lower blood pressure. Then, which kinds of volunteer types activities improve health the most? Nonetheless, nobody really knows. How much time will you need to put into volunteer work to lower your blood pressure or live longer? Anyways, other studies have found a health benefit from as little as 100 year volunteering hours. Researchers are attempting to identify the specific characteristics of volunteering that provide the greatest benefit, as with any activity thought to improve health. Only if their intentions were truly altruistic, health Psychology found that participants who volunteered with some regularity lived longer.

One key for deriving health benefits from volunteering is to do it for the right reasons.