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Cats are Healers (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Sponsored by toxoplasmosis

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Cat people have 40% less risk of heart attack.*

Cat people are also overrepresented cohorts of wealthy people and women, two cohorts who have a much lower risk of heart attack than the most at risk cohort of poor men.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Petting a cat calms down & relieves stress.

There's a 50/50 chance that a cat will try to claw your eyes out if you rub their belly, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Your stress will reduce to 0 if you die, so

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Survivorship bias: those who live through the encounter have lowered stress.😁

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