why is laughing good for you?

because when you laugh your body releases/produces endorphins, the feel-good hormones, and they are healthy for you.

Also, it makes you breathe deeper and take in more oxygen, and it is good for your mental health tool

* reduce stress,

* lower blood pressure,

* elevate mood,

* boost immune system ,

* improve brain functioning,

* protect the heart,

* connect you to others,

* foster instant relaxation, and

* make you feel good.

Laughter lowers blood pressure. People who laugh heartily on a regular basis have lower standing blood pressure than the average person. When people have a good laugh, initially the blood pressure increases, but then it decreases to levels below normal. Breathing then becomes deeper which sends oxygen enriched blood and nutrients throughout the body.

Humor changes our biochemical state. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases infection fighting antibodies. It increases our attentiveness, heart rate, and pulse.

Laughter protects the heart. Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to the study at the University of Maryland Medical Center (cited above). The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people of the same age without heart disease.

Laughter gives our bodies a good workout. Laughter can be a great workout for your diaphragm, abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and back muscles. It massages abdominal organs, tones intestinal functioning, and strengthens the muscles that hold the abdominal organs in place. Not only does laughter give your midsection a workout, it can benefit digestion and absorption functioning as well. It is estimated that hearty laughter can burn calories equivalent to several minutes on the rowing machine or the exercise bike.

Humor improves brain function and relieves stress. Laughter stimulates both sides of the brain to enhance learning. It eases muscle tension and psychological stress, which keeps the brain alert and allows people to retain more information.

You are very misguided, you know? to laugh out loud is good for the soul that will soon pour tears down the irratated sublime skin, quickly filling the broken streets with huge puddles of D.N.A in every way. Something of a lesson to never be forgotten, only experienced at the appropitate time.

yes actually it's a great work out that dumps endorphins into your body and exercises your abdomen. also research has shown that age 6 a person is likely to laugh 100 times a day whereas an adult is likely to laugh maybe once a day if their lucky. little perspective

I heard laughing releases some kind of chemical in your body that is good for you. Plus it shows you have a soul.

yes, it gives your abs a workout, and it pumps a bit of endophin into your blood. Laughing is a bit like eating chocolate...only without the calories.

Because laughter is capable of reducing the stress levels of the human body.

It works muscles in your face and abdomen that you normally wouldn't work. Not to mention it does wonders for your emotional life.

Laughing burns calories and makes you feel good/happy.

It releases stress and tension. it probably also releases of some type of chemical or horomone in your brian that makes you feel good, but i'm not sure about that