By Mys Lyke Meeh on October 27th, 2007
Eight Incredible Reasons Why You Need to Laugh Out Loud
Laughter is the best medicine. Find out why…
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Laughter can reduce anger, irritation, tension, depression and anxiety. It can relieve stress and it can affect brain chemicals to respond in a positive way, it can break the cycle of a stress response because laughter serves as the positive outlet for bottled up emotions.
- Medical research agreed that the more you laugh, some part of nerves and tissues were stretch out, pulse are getting quicker and send more oxygen to your body tissues. When tissues received oxygen, it function very well and release some tension that store in your system.
- Laughter is a good way to burn out calories. If you’re exercising for one hour to burn out 100 calories, 15 minutes laughter will burn out 50 calories. So that means, 30 minutes non-stop laughing can burn out 100 calories. It massages all the organs in your body.
- Laughing is a boost for immune function by raising levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies. It reduces pain by releasing endorphins that are more potent than equivalent amounts of morphine.
- Laughter is a great way to protect yourself from a heart attack. It can prevent the development of hypertension and heart disease. Studies shown that people who suffered from a heart attack laugh less than the people who laugh often. Since, one of the cause of heart attack is mental stress which is associated with impairment of the endothelium, the protective barrier lining our blood vessels. This can cause a series of inflammatory reactions that lean to fat and cholesterol build-up in the coronary arteries and ultimately to a heart attack. The benefit of laughter affects the brain chemicals to respond in a positive way.
- Laughter is a universal language. It can make connection from one another. Socially, it brings and connect new friends and old friends or even worse enemies. Just laugh away and tension is gone, especially in an uncomfortable environment.
- Laughter helps you to admit and adapt your own mistakes. One way or another, stupid mistakes makes you laugh. Repetitive mistakes makes you grin. It helps you realized how good are you at in laughing your own mistakes.
- Laughter is the best way to work out every system in your body. When you laugh, there are three great benefits playing inside your system. Your brain, your heart and your muscles are working together. When you heard a joke, your brain function to grasp the meaning of the joke- means your brain is working to be smart. When you understand the joke, your emotion is responding to laugh on what you hears when you laugh, your muscles and tissues are also laughing together.
What are you waiting for? Laugh out loud and grab the benefits of laughter through emotionally, physically and mentally.
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IcyCucky | Oct 27, 2007 | Reply
You’re absolutely right on all these reasons. Thank you for the reminder.
dee gold | Sep 6, 2008 | Reply
i agree with icy.
i should try to laugh more often to benefit from it.
thanks for this nice article, heart