Voltaire said, “The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease.”
Today medical science is discovering that laughter truly is a means to stay healthy.
Helpguide.org has the following snippets:
“When we laugh, natural killer cells which destroy tumors and viruses increase, along with Gamma-interferon (a disease-fighting protein), T-cells (important for our immune system) and B-cells (which make disease-fighting antibodies). As well as lowering blood pressure, laughter increases oxygen in the blood, which also encourages healing.”
“Science of Laughter” Discovery Health Website
“Without humor one’s thought processes are likely to become stuck and narrowly focused leading to increased distress.”
Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
“Laughter is very powerful medicine. It can lower stress, dissolve anger and unite families in their resolve to overcome troubled times.”
University of Nebraska
“Nothing is good or bad. It is thinking that makes it so.”
Shakespeare
“By the time a child reaches nursery school, he or she will laugh about 300 times a day. Adults laugh an average of 17 times a day.”
“Science of Laughter” Discovery Health
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