The health benefits of pets

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Yvonne Salgado, licensed clinical social worker with Kaiser Permanente, talks about the health benefits of owing a pet.
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great companions, but the
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a reason to smile today.
us now. She's a licensed
worker with Kaiser Perman
she's here to talk about
that furry friends can pr
good morning to you. Good
to have you on. Good morn
for having me. Of course.
tell us is how does pet o
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and physical health for t
pet ownership. It really
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helps relieve stress. It
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individuals physical healt
to go out and exercise an
it gives you that social
need. And Yvonne, what do
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they found themselves alo
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system. And it was that o
were alone that they were
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the companionship, the co
they needed. They didn't
and they felt safe in the
you're a pet lover. Can y
own experience? Yes, yes,
has has to do with my dau
stormy. My daughter went
hard time when she was 15
we decided to get stormy
so much joy in her life.
a hard time with a very t
It brought her a lot of a
and when she found stormy
so much joy, it distracted
that she was going throug
her give her that uncondi
needed that companionship
and stormy just loves her
give stormy love all of t
have stormy around and we
stormy right now. What ki
I was curious because I s
and stormy is the darker
is a french bulldog. She
she's a little bit bigger
Nice. So cute. Well, what
who are considering adopt
I think adopting a pet, i
a special person because
empathy, you have to have
a lot of patients. So for
adoptive pet, they have a
able to really understand
when they do decide to ad
that that is that pets fo
that's what that pet need
we needed to hear. Yvonne
you again and the best of
tell stormy we both said
of that love this way. Ye
