28/08/2020
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is the best medicine 😊❣️
Doses of laughter is our little attempt to tickle your funny bones by providing positivism and sharing videos that may somehow make you smile and laugh. After all, laughter is the best medicine!
Keep laughing! 😄
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The field of medicine has long recognized the importance of humor. In the 1300s, Henri de Mondeville, a professor of surgery, propagated post-operative therapy with humor.5 Norman Cousins, a journalist and a professor, also initiated this trend when he developed his own “treatment,” based on mood elevation through laughter.6 According to Cousins, ten minutes of laughter resulted in two hours of pain free sleep.
"A good belly laugh leads to the release of endorphins from the brain," says Michael Miller, director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
That release sets off a cascade of heart-healthy biological events. Endorphins, pleasure-inducing neurotransmitters, activate receptors on the surface of the endothelium, the layer of flat cells lining blood vessels. That leads to the release of nitric oxide, which widens blood vessels—increasing blood flow, lessening inflammation, inhibiting platelet clumping, and reducing the formation of cholesterol plaque.
SOURCES:
1. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/laughter-best-medicine
2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/6/140606-laughter-jokes-medicine-health-science-laughing-yoga/
