It’s No Joke, Laughter is Awesome Medicine!
You go right ahead! Laugh and cackle to
the point of losing your breath! Laughter has enormous amounts of health
benefits ranging from affecting diabetes to lowering risks of heart attacks and
everything in between!
In this modern world that we live in,
full of medicinal remedies and medical breakthroughs, who would ever dream that
something as simple as laughter could induce such amazing benefits to your
health that could rival highly scientific compounds found in drugs of today?
The idea that laughter may have some
serious benefits to our health may have been what spurned on many scientific
research projects pertaining to the benefits of laughter on our bodies. Over the
years, countless experiments have concluded with scientific data that laughter
has one of the most astounding benefits for your health. We have heard about the
positive impact animals and clowns have had on nursing home and terminally ill
children. Scientists have taken that idea a step further. Experiments have been
conducted on such things as type II Diabetes which is an increasing problem for
many Americans today. A study done in Japan at the Foundation for Advancement of
International Science, Bio-Laboratory, found that laughter helps regulate gene
expression to help control type II Diabetes. This is a huge discovery. This
means that laughter has such a homeopathic effect on even the gene expression on
our DNA that perhaps if we were a happier sort the gene that causes type II
Diabetes may possibly never be expressed. Granted, it will likely not take the
place of insulin therapy, but it may be key in helping to prevent the disease.
Studies also suggest that laughter positively affects rheumatoid arthritis by affecting the level of the condition as well as psychological benefits in controlling stress and stress related conditions. Perhaps the biggest discovery, published by S. Karger AG, Basel, is that laughter is now being proven to alleviate some of the lasting effects of heart attacks such as less medication and fewer repeat attacks with humor therapy of just thirty minutes per day. Can you imagine the impact?
Go ahead and laugh. Point and giggle, do it with pride and do
it for your health. You may be preventing Diabetes when you cackle aloud. You
could be keeping yourself from having a heart attack or stroke when you belly
laugh to the point of tears. It’s ok! It will be contagious and soon everyone
around you will be laughing too. Life can sometimes be serious and tiring, but
if you look around and can draw some laughter out of what may seem mundane you
could possibly be helping your health. Learn a new joke and tell it to everyone
you know no matter if you are a good joke teller or not! Join a Laughter Yoga
class at your local ‘Y’ even! Go ahead, laugh! Your health can truly depend on
it!
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