How Laughter Strengthens our Immune System - Laughter as Good Medicine

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -- LORD BYRON

Well, I got a good dose of "medicine" recently that reminded me of how great laughter is at making us feel better. I watched a video on home-made face masks and was crying I was laughing so hard. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrJaZsdjSz4&t=41s)
That made me think, wow, this is exactly what we need right now during this stressful time, we need laughter!

Here is just a list of the health benefits and the studies are below. I will be doing a blog article soon talking more about the heath benefits and also ways to incorporate laughter into your life. I also created a Laughter Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWL2s4DBx4Y&list=PLbK5lpL1cVnwJMuHQEPfwZlCI1_2fS9s3). Now laughter is very subjective, you may not find my choices funny, but hopefully you will come up with your own!

Physiological Benefits of Laughter
o Increases respiratory activity and oxygen exchange
o Stimulates hear rate and blood pressure followed by vasodilation and relaxation
o Increases mental alertness and memory, enhances learning and creativity
o Engages multiple parts of the brain, stimulating both hemispheres at the same time
o Creates endorphins that help with pain
o Reduces stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine
o Increases Dopamine and releases serotonin, both help with anxiety and depression
o Helps GI tract peristalsis and decreased stress helps digestion
o Boosts T-cells + natural killer cells for tumor and virus destruction and other parts
o Increases salivary immunoglobulin A which defends against infectious organisms entering the respiratory tract

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200011/the-science-laughter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619300851
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/laughter1.htm
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/advan.00030.2017
https://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HMS_OTB_Spring10_Vol16_No2.pdf
https://www.cal-ccra.org/assets/Convention_Handouts/2012_Handouts/buxman%20k%20handout.pdf
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219065
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219065&type=printable
https://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HMS_OTB_Spring10_Vol16_No2.pdf
https://www.humana.com/health-and-well-being/health-benefits-of-laughter
https://www.gaiam.com/blogs/discover/7-health-benefits-of-laughter

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