Laughter tends to reduce sympathetic nervous system SNS activity while engendering softening, expanding, and relaxing parasympathetic nervous system PNS activity. One possible explanation for increased PNS activity is that diaphragmatic movement may stimulate the nearby vagus nerve. Not only does laughter help prevent SNS activity by assuaging emotional stress, but it also helps discharge aggressive, negative energy trapped as tension within the body as a result of past SNS over-activity.
According to Alexander Lowen, the father of bioenergetic psychotherapy, uncontrolled laughter creates convulsive reactions which free up muscular tension within the body, and charge and mobilize the voice and breathing. Through release sessions, bioenergetic therapists try to facilitate anger, crying, and even laughing as a way of healing the body through the spontaneous release of energy. Laughing can often lead to crying, the most healing modality for the cardiovascular system.
Like laughing, crying induces endorphin release. Tear analysis also demonstrates that crying causes intricate hormonal reactions.
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Laughter and other spontaneous emotional releases such as crying also promote respiration, and thus bring much needed oxygen to the heart. Other than making you simply feel more relaxed, connected to others, or just better, humor and laughter can create positive immune and cardiovascular system effects.
Vigorous laughter can result in physiological changes that are similar to those achieved through moderate exercise. Studies have shown that intense laughter can cause heart and respiratory rates to rise, as well as increased respiratory depth and oxygen consumption. Immediately following these changes are relaxed muscles and a corresponding decrease in respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure.
That being said, a bout of uncontrollable laughter is no substitute for regular, moderate exercise.
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Laughter also positively affects hormones. By increasing endorphins, hormones which assuage the sympathetic nervous system, laughter facilitates a state of peace in the body. It also raises DHEA dehydroepiandrosterone levels. Many researchers consider high levels of DHEA, a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands, a marker of health in the body.
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Studies indicate that DHEA, which declines with age, has anti-aging , anti-cancer, and anti-obesity effects and can enhance mental abilities. Some researchers explain funny-bone medicine through a psychoneuroimmunologic PNI lens; PNI is an emerging field exploring the nexuses between psycho-emotional states and the nervous and immune systems.
Some PNI enthusiasts have theorized that laughter improves immune function by decreasing stress hormones: In a randomized crossover design study, ten college students were shown two videos: The subjects demonstrated significantly higher SIgA levels after watching Richard Pryor Live, indicating that sense of humor and humor response laughter can affect one measure of immune activity. Again, though, more research is necessary to form any solid conclusions based on SIgA variations. PNI researchers have found another indicator that laughter improves immune system function: NK cells are lymphocytes white blood cells that can distinguish cancerous and virally-infected cells from normal cells, and can destroy the former without harming the latter.
As lower levels of NK cell activity are correlated with metastasized cancer, higher levels indicate better resistance to disease. To investigate the effect of humor on NK cell activity, researchers Berk, et al.
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The subjects demonstrated increased NK cell activity as well as sustained increase in immunoglobulins G, A, and M. Through similar studies, researchers have determined that laughter trumps humor when it comes to improved immune system function. In a controlled study Bennett, et al. While the evidence in the abovementioned studies is not enough to prove that laughter will protect us against, or cure, disease, it does indicate that laughter has merit as a medicinal tool. The emotional buoyancy and stress relief brought on by laughter simply improves our quality of life.
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