3 Reasons to Take Advantage of the Best Medicine
It’s time to make your health a laughing matter. Yep, you got it right. Laughter is the best medicine and you can start taking advantage of its benefits today. It’s hard to completely list all that can be gained by adding a little humor to your life, but here are a few ways that scratch the surface.
it will affect the body either way. Use laughter to improve your mental health, as it can enhance memory, alertness, and creativity. Humor and laughter also assist in learning.
#1 Physical Health
#3 Emotional Health
Can’t believe that you can get a workout by laughing it up? Well, you’re missing out on one of the easiest and most enjoyable forms of exercise. Laughter can work out the back, abdominal, facial, and leg muscles. The burst of energy that laughter provides can be just as beneficial as time spent on a rowing machine. It won’t provide a complete workout, but this is a great way to get started.
In addition to staying physically fit and mentally stable, keeping your emotions in order is also vital. Stress and other damaging emotions can negatively affect mood and consequently, health.
In addition, the immune system is strengthened, the heart is made healthier, blood pressure is lowered, circulation is improved, and pain levels are lowered. And these are just a few of the benefits. Research shows that laughter can also assist cells that fight diseases. (Care2.com, Discovery.com, HelpGuide.org)
#2 Mental Health A healthy mind is just as important as a healthy body, and Page 16
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Laughter can help release endorphins, the body’s “feel good” hormones, while reducing cortisol, adrenaline, and epinephrine, stress hormones. This further improves cardiovascular health as stress adds strain to the heart. Laughter helps socially, strengthening relationships and improving people skills. Good, meaningful companionship is always a positive thing, not just for health, but for life. Laughter can be one way in which these relationships are reinforced. (HelpGuide.org, Discovery.com) The benefits of laughter can hardly be covered in a 500-word article. The list could go on and on in the ways that it improves 50 + Living | February 2019
