It’s long been said that pretty women are hard on men’s hearts — country musicians can attest to that.
But a new study says one-on-one contact with an attractive female might also be harmful to men’s health, raising stress hormones to dangerously high levels.
And when men are in the presence of a beautiful stranger they view as “out of their league,” the risks are even higher, with cortisol levels rising so high that heart attacks and strokes become real possibilities, the Spanish researchers found.
“This is another case of hard science proving the obvious,” Toronto-based psychiatrist Irvin Wolkoff, who was not involved with the study, quipped to CTV’s Canada AM. Read more…
