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.
Cats are Healers
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
So what you are saying is the more cats I get thr richer I will be?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Yes that’s exactly how causation and correlation work, go for it!
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Scientists have discovered that having more cats reduces the risk of heart attacks and increases wealth with no upper limit*
*study sponsored by toxoplasmosis foundation
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Correlation and Causation are just fancy-pantsy words used by experts to lie to us common folk!
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
No but cats are correlated with wealth, I’m not implying any sort of causation, unlike the post lol.
And009@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Gotta sell them all
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
I have 2 cats.
One of them seems to sense when I’m upset or unwell, and will come to hug me, wrap herself around my neck and purr in my ear.
Then the other one will sneak up on us from behind, jump on her back, and start a cat fight on top of my head.
I love them both, but sometimes I wonder whether getting a second cat was the right decision.RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some cats are grade A dingdongs!
Still love them all.
simple@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
Survivorship bias: those who survive the encounter have lowered stress.😁
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The calming down and stress relief all happens once the petting session ends.
FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Your stress will reduce to 0 if you die, so
corvi@lemm.ee 5 months ago
My cat learned I can’t see when I have the VR headset on and knocked a lamp over onto my head.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Wholesome. Except the 4th-panel propaganda. That poor woman is dead after that…
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Depends on the cats personality, some will tolerate, others will kill.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Look at the cat’s eyes! She is about to die. That’s why no 5th panel
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Jumi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My neighbours cat sleeps on my couch when the door is open and when he always wants me to scratch his belly.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Nice, that’s basically free healthcare.
Jumi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, it’s pretty great. All I have to do is feed their cats when they’re away.
gregor@gregtech.eu 5 months ago
Does it really heal wounds and stabilize blood pressure? That seems a bit far-fetched.
webpack@ani.social 5 months ago
according to Google, cat purrs are at a specific frequency that somehow helps you heal faster
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
afaik the notable thing is actually that the purrs help heal bone fractures, which is presumably something to do with vibrations helping the process along mechanically somehow.
But of course there’s also just the psychological effect of having a purring cat near you, same thing as how people heal faster from stuff like acupuncture despite the process itself not doing anything, we just benefit from feeling happy and cared for.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
One of it’s purrrposes is to shake wounds and increase bloodflow. This is why cats sometimes pur after conflict; they’re licking their wounds in multiple ways.
jlow@beehaw.org 5 months ago
So someone better than me at maths could probably figure out how many cats I’d need to heat my with them room (and if the catfood etc needed would be cheaper than heating) …
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
I can answer the second question:
Generally, hot-blooded mammals transform 90% of the energy they get from food into heat.
So using a cat for heating your room is about 90% as effective as burning cat food in an oven.Here’s some napkin math for where I live:
1kg of firewood has 4kWh = 4000 kcal
which is about equivalent to 1kg of really cheap dry cat food1kg of firewood costs about 40 cents
1kg of cheap dry cat food costs about 1,20€So, cat-based heating is about 3.3x more expensive than burning pre-dried, commercially purchased firewood.
(all of these prices heavily depend on how much you buy in bulk, though)RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 months ago
How would it affect the math if you sold cat videos as NFTs?
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
c/theydidthemath?
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
But cat based heating has a lower efficiency, they do not turn all energy into heat.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Guinea pigs are kittens that never become cats
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
wheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheekwheek
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Sponsored by toxoplasmosis
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
You can’t tell me what to — oh, a pretty cat!
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If toxoplasmosis reduces my heart attack risk and stress with no discernable side effects sign me up!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
toxoplasmosis saw all the microbes in our gut living in harmony and wondered why the fuck everything else isn’t doing that, hell yeah let’s just make the humans feel happy and they’ll ensure our survival FOREVER