Good Humor!!!
 If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: Laughter is the best medicine. And now there is some proof. Researchers say merely anticipating a laugh can jump-start healthy changes in the body. The findings come from a small study, made up of 16 healthy men divided into two groups. The experimental group was told to anticipate something funny. The other group was used as a comparison. Researchers then tested the levels of three stress hormones that participants had in their blood and compared the levels with those of the control group, who did not expect a laugh was on the way. They found the group anticipating the chuckles had reduced levels of these stress hormones: -Cortisol, known as a major stress hormone, dipped 39% -Adrenaline, also known as epinephrine, dropped 70% -Dopac, a chemical related to the feel-good chemical dopamine, dropped 38%. The next time you start feeling stressed, expect something funny to happen. By: Heather Browning
Posted on 22nd July 2008
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