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Introduction to Top 14 Health Benefits of Laughing
Laughter is the best medicine indeed! laughing is the best way to relieve tension, ease pain, and more! science has shown that laughter has more benefits than just letting people now that their jokes were good. laughter itself can cure sum of the deepest pits of sadness. That’s why today we are looking at the top 14 benefits of laughter.
Benefits of Laughter
There are some amazing benefits of laughter. Which directly affects on your health. These are great for your physical and mental health as well. So let’s start with the 14 points
1) laughing could help you live longer
living longer does not sound like a terrible thing to most people. In fact in mortality seems to be something many humans covet or dream of having. This is evident in the ideas of immortal vampires, full of beauty and long uninterrupted life. While laughing would not turn anyone into Cullen, it can help people live much longer than normal. This is because while laughter does induce happiness(which is obviously healthier than sadness), it also causes the stress system in once body to stop and start again and again in order to cause the laughter.
This resets the stress system and cools it down, it giving a sense of relief to the person laughing and keeping the blood pressure healthy. actually, study in Norway found that people with a strong sense of humor outlived those who does not laugh as much. The difference was particularly notable for those battling cancer. The tirrable disease of Cancer being aided by laughter is great news.
2) Laughing Helps with Anger
Anger is a very unpleasant emotion. For many, anger can sometimes become unmanageable. people can be mean, life is unfair, and at the end of the day many people are looking for someone to blame as their anger begins to boil. it’s hard to not get mad at the world and all of its whims. However, laughing helps the feeling of anger subside and may be even go away depending on the level of anger experienced by a person.
laughing can cause the release of serotonin and joy which can put a cap on the anger and make it less prevalent. the serotonin, and even relieving the tension of the situation that is causing the angle itself can allow for the ease of the nasty emotion thanks to laughter. Nothing diffuses anger and conflict faster than a shared laugh, after all. looking at the funny side can put problems into perspective and enable you to move on from confrontations towards anyone else in that moment.
3) Protects the Heart
Laughter improves the functions of blood vessels and increase blood flow. This lowers blood pressures to acceptable levels, which protect the hearts from working to hard. This can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems. making sure that the heart is protected is a great thing to do. After all, everyone needs their hearts. laughing normally and having a great sense of humor can make sure that you are hurt is protected.
4) Laughing can help you lose weight
While laughing is not the same as doing crunches or push-ups, one study found that laughing for 10 to 15 minutes a day can burn approximately 40 calories. Which could be enough to lose three or four pounds over the course of a year. This is a great way to maintain one’s health in a small way. Anything helps, after all! working out can be hard to maintain especially for the working mother or student, or really, anyone. So, if laughing can help maintain some kind of weight loss, then its better to do it instead of not.
5) Laughter Improves Your Mood
Laughing improves moods like no one’s business. The serotonin released from laughing makes people happy and of course it means that the mood will improve. While laughing promotes the release of serotonin from happiness, laughter also produces endorphins the body natural feel-good chemicals (aside from serotonin). Endorphins promote an over all sense of well-being and can even tempo rarely can even temporarily release pain. laughing makes people feel better, destress, and become more easy going.
6) It Activate and Relieves Stress Release
Laughter will cause the human stress response to activate and then alleviate causing temporary panic that last 4 only a milisecond. Then, the body calms down(the actual laughter), and this causes the body to become a very calm and content. That’s why after a long, hard laughing session many people find themselves smiling from contentment and feeling weird sense of relief. Oftentimes, its almost as if a wave has washed over them.
Regarding your brain for “solving” the “situation”
This is due to the relief from stress and the body is calming down from what it thought was a stressful situation. It’s regarding your brain for “solving” the “situation” and it is also feeling proud of itself for surviving. This also lowers the affected persons blood pressure (which is something very good) because the heart is not working as hard as it thought it needed too.
7) Laughing shifts perspective
When people say to look on the Bright Side of life, they are often met with mocking laughter or eye rolls. They are not taken seriously because there is no simple “bright side” to life. However, laughter may be the key to finding the desired bright side so many people have talked about. laughter shifts one’s perspective on a darker situation allowing you to see situation, in a more realistic, less threatening light.
Avoid feeling overwhelmed and diffuse conflicts
A humors perspective creates psychological distance, making the problems same like less of a threat. This can also help give people time to unpack these emotions that they are dealing with, which can help them to avoid feeling overwhelmed and diffuse conflicts that arise and cause this situation.
8) Laughter Relax Your Body
Because of the stress activating and repelling response in the body the body will become easily relaxed of laughing for long periods of time. Endorphins, which are released as well as serotonin when laughing, are the same chemicals that one’s body release when they are working out.
it’s the bodies natural “reward” system for working hard. that’s why the body feels completed relaxed and content after a workout and a super hard laughing session after a binge watch of the big bang theory. laughter can easily create some of the best times for the body, especially after long hard days at a grueling job. laughter can take that pain and put it somewhere else allowing the person to totally relax.
9) Boost your Immune System
Who knew that laughing was just as good as taking a multivitamins? well it probably not just as good laughing can help the immune system on top of talking daily vitamins and minerals. laughter decrease stress hormones and increase immune cells and infection fighting and antibodies. Antibodies and immune cells help the chances of improving resistance to disease. laughter can literally make a body relax feel happy and it can prevent people from becoming sick.
10) Cardiovascular Health
As discuses above, laughter lower can blood pressure substantially by the stress relief response. Now blood pressure levels are essential to heart health, basically blood pressure is the volume of your blood and tells health Care workers how hard is having to pump to get the blood in the body from the heart where it is sorted to the rest of the body where it needs to go.
Heart attack prevention
high blood pressure can be dangerous because the heart has to work twice as hard and can lead to hurt attacks and more. low blood pressure when it’s too low can also be dangerous, but laughter would not ever cause blood pressure to get that low. laughter will often times balance out the blood pressure issue and bring it back to where it needs to be which is very healthy for the person laughing.
11) Laughter Relieves Pain
laughter can actually be used as a pain of medicine. Due to the endorphins released from laughing pain can be dulled or even quelled and taken care of completely by laughing. Endorphins are natural painkillers so it would make sense that laughter releasing them would cause lack of pain.
Laughing can make minor aches and pain Disappear with in a time frame but they are not as good as actual pain killers. They act as natural painkillers so they will just aid with the process that pain Killers offer .A certain Study performed in 2011 by live science had participants watch 15 minutes of comedy show in a group. Their pain tolerance increased 10% more than before they begin to laugh.
12) Group Bonding
it promoters group bonding, laughter brings people closer together in so many ways. it relieves tension it offers away for people to feel special by making someone else laugh it creates a shared space with in an inside joke where people can feel included and special and it allows for group bonding. this can make large group in companies, hospitals, nursing center, more feel better connected with one and other through actually enjoy able experience instead of forced icebreakers.
laughter promotes this bonding in the groups by offering a shared inside joke. that’s way it is a memory that the specific group can call upon when ever they are around each other. this makes them feel closer to those they shared the inside joke with so they can continue to further their Bond and make its stronger in the future.
13) laughing attracts us to the others
Human are attracted to happiness. Happiness in others, happiness in themselves, happiness basically anywhere they can get it. laughing is a sure sign of happiness of course which draws others to the person laughing like flies to honey. laughing a lot can make someone very popular.
14) laughter can increase the chances of becoming pregnant
Trying to get pregnant? laugh more! supposedly laughter can increase a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant. A 2011 study showed women going through in vitro fertilization were 16% more likely to get pregnant when entertained by a clown than those who did not have the clown encounter(the clown was funny don’t worry). this study is one example of how laughter can actually increase the chances of having a baby.
About Author
I’m Ayesha Iqbal, a student studying MBBS at Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) Lahore. I write about health for “GenZ Cares” because they care a lot about young people staying healthy. I do research and try new things to learn more about how to keep everyone feeling good. My articles focus on topics like nutrition, exercise, mental well-being, and ways to lead a healthier lifestyle. Through my writing, I aim to share valuable insights and practical tips that can make a positive difference in people’s lives.
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