14 DAY TRIAL // A team of University of Turku in Finland researchers have recently announced that, according to their investigations, stress might affect not just a woman's mental health, but also her love life.
To put it in a nutshell: these specialists say that stressed women are regarded by most men as being less attractive than their relaxed counterparts.
Apparently, this is because stress is presumed to make women less fertile than they would normally be.
In order to reach these conclusions, the researchers analyzed the cortisol (i.e. a hormone linked to stress) levels in 52 women and then asked 18 men to comment on how attractive they appeared to them.
The women taken into consideration for this study were roughly 20 years old.
“Interestingly, facial attractiveness correlated negatively with plasma cortisol level suggesting stress reduces attractiveness in women,” Dr. Markus Rantala reportedly summed up the findings of this investigation.
As the researchers explain, the findings of this investigation confirm previous assumptions that beauty, reproductive health and fertility more often than not go hand in hand.