Global Belly Laugh Day, January 24, Celebrate the Great Gift of Laughter

...ft of laughter? "I celebrate Belly Laugh Day and encourage my business leader clients to do so as well. It is amazingly refreshing to encourage mirthful laughter and play in the workplace. Global Belly Laugh Day helps remind us not to take ourselves to seriously particularly given the stressful challe...

Heard the One About How to Beat Tension?

...s hormones that can weaken your immune system over time, according to a new study. The researchers, who previously had found that the build-up for mirthful experience boosted health-protecting hormones, suggested that mirth may be a key to better physical and mental health. "Our findings lead us to be...

mirthful in Biological News

Just the expectation of a mirthful laughter experience boosts endorphins 27 percent, HGH 87 percent

There's no doubt that laughter feels good, but is there real neurophysiology behind it and what can you do about it? In a paper being presented in an American Physiological Society session at Experimental Biology 2006, Lee S. Berk of Loma Linda University, reports that not only is there real scie...

Laughter remains good medicine

...er study, they found that the same anticipation of mirthful laughter reduced the levels of three detrimental s...ne and blood vessel complications. They found that mirthful laughter, as a preventive adjunct therapy in diabe...e researchers will present their findings entitled mirthful Laughter, As Adjunct Therapy in Diabetic Care, Inc...

Laughter remains good medicine

...er study, they found that the same anticipation of mirthful laughter reduced the levels of three detrimental s...ne and blood vessel complications. They found that mirthful laughter, as a preventive adjunct therapy in diabe...e researchers will present their findings entitled mirthful Laughter, As Adjunct Therapy in Diabetic Care, Inc...

New study finds anticipating a laugh reduces our stress hormones

...the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting horm...ork the researchers found that the anticipation of mirthful laughter had surprising and significant effects. T...ed with the Behavior of Perceptual Anticipation of mirthful Laughter. It was conducted by Lee Berk with Stanle...