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10 June, 2014 by Cris Popp

Laughter & Your Body – Part 1

Our two part series on Laughter & Your body looks at the many physiological benefits of how laugher makes it “great medicine”:

  1. Laughter reduces stress and produces endorphins that make you feel good
  2. Laughter relaxes your muscles
  3. Laughter boosts your immune system. This happens for two reasons:
    • Stress hormones and flight-or-fight compounds suppress the immune system. By changing your mood, laughter “unsuppresses” the immune system. It provides a safety valve which shuts of the flight-or-fight response and lets your body function return to normal.
    • Laughter boosts your immune system directly and causes:
      • cancer fighting lymphocytes to increase
      • immunoglobin (sIgA) increase – this defends you from infections via the respiratory tract
      • increased T cell activation and number
      • increase in number of B cells which produce disease-fighting protein
      • Gamma-interferon (a disease fighting protein)
      • These effects last from 30 minutes to over 12 hours! There is a famous case of a man called Norman Cousins who cured himself of cancer by laughing.
  4. Laughter therapy is an excellent aerobic exercise. Laughing 100 times is as much a workout as 10 minutes of rowing or 15 minutes on an exercise bike.
  5. Laughter helps you lose weight. Researchers at Vanderbuilt University found that 15 minutes of laughter burns as much as 50 calories. According to nutritionist Dr Mac Buchowski, a healthy laugh a day “could burn 2 to 4 pounds of fat, even without changing dietary habits”. Sure beats dieting.

Don’t miss Part 2 of Laugher & Your Body where we look at how 10 minutes of laughter can result in two hours of pain relief.

 

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