1 The Surprising Science of Laughter_ How it Affects Your Genes and Blood Sugar

In the joyful group who had laughed for one hour There after dinner blood sugar values rose about half that amount slightly outside of normal range Initially the researchers who performed the experiment thought that the light-hearted subjects had lowered their sugar levels by contracting their abdominal and diaphragm muscles when they lab They reasoned that when a muscle contracts it uses energy and circulating energy is glucose But the research went further They examined the gene sequences of the jovial individuals and discovered that these diabetics had altered twenty-three different gene expressions just by laughing at the comedy show they'd seen Their elevated state of mind apparently triggered their brains to send new signals to their cells which turned on those genetic variations that allowed their bodies to naturally begin to regulate the genes responsible for processing blood sugar