We believe that it is not necessary to give more reasons to laugh every day than we all already know: it is a sign that we are having a good time, we are in a blissful and happy moment, it is generally shared with our friends and family, etc. However, there are more reasons to laugh more and better every day: Laughing a lot gives us years of life as considerably improves our health. Could there be a better reason to laugh than this? We think not!
If you want to know why we should laugh out loud every day, keep reading this health article that we share today. Your health and emotional well-being will appreciate it.
Health out loud
Laughter not only has beneficial effects on our mood but also acts on the body although, yes, it is not an absolute therapy that heals by itself but must be used as support for other therapies for the disease.
Health benefits
- You have analgesic effect and favors the production of endorphins and enkephalins in the brain.
- Eliminate insomnia thanks to the "healthy fatigue" it generates.
- Every laugh we give activates about 400 muscles, including some of the stomach that can only be exercised with laughter.
- It favors the bile removal.
- Massage and stretches the spine and the cervical ones.
- The diaphragm produces an internal massage that facilitates digestion.
- Improves circulation.
- The toxins.
- Eliminate stress or reduces it considerably.
- Lowers hypertension since the smooth muscles of the arteries are relaxed.
- When laughing, sometimes tears usually occur. These help clean the eyes.
- The laughter, when shaking the head, clear the ears and nose.
- You rejuvenate by stretching and stimulating the muscles of the face.
- Improves respiratory capacity: twice as much air enters the lungs (12 liters instead of the usual 6).
- Strengthens the heart.
- The skin becomes more oxygenated thanks to entering twice as much air that enters the lungs.
- Avoid constipation.
- Strengthens the immune system. Increases the number of lymphocytes, cytokines and certain immunoglobins.
If all these benefits are not more than enough for you to have reason to laugh, do it simply for your happiness and that of those around you.