The researchers did what's know as a systematic review and meta-analysis, looking at all of the studies on dog ownership and health that they could findpic.twitter.com/d6M7e9Xpzu
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What this means is that there are literally hundreds of explanations for dog owners being more healthy than non-owners that have nothing to do with the dogs Funnily enough, that's something that the authors noted in the studypic.twitter.com/BWzTi99vJs
Basically, healthy people might be more likely to buy dogs Thus, dog owners die less Association rather than causation
And the mechanisms of dogs saving our lives are a bit flimsy. Some minor reductions in blood pressure =/= lifesaving
So...puppies probably aren't saving our lives They're still great tho, you should definitely get one Adopt, don't shop!pic.twitter.com/n0a6UOHvZf
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