Comedy will help to cope with the pain

A small British study has proven that laughter can increase tolerance to pain. It turns out that while laughter causes chemicals to be released endorphins, known as the hormone of good mood, which are also highlighted during physical exercise. Laughter is useful when it hurts, because it's hard work for the body. A full-fledged, sustainable laughter is a good workout for the muscles of the chest and lungs, and this can cause the release of endorphins to ease the pain. To such conclusion scientists from Oxford University, which conducted the survey.


When the levels of endorphins increases pain threshold of the person grows. For the study, researchers conducted a series of six different experiments in the laboratory and one in the real world. Many tests were conducted in small groups, because other studies have shown that laughter is 30 times more likely to occur in social circle, rather than alone. In some studies, half of the volunteers watched a Comedy video, while others watched a documentary about such boring things as instruction on the game of Golf or training of domestic animals, or nature programmes.




Each participant was tested before and after watching the video by using such known techniques as tight tightening the cuff for measuring blood pressure around the shoulder or placed on the forearm of ice sleeves as man can endure. The researchers also recorded the amount of time that participants had edmeades. However should only be considered a full-fledged real laugh, not a polite titter or a tight smile. Those participants who watched a funny seen, felt less pain than those who watched explicitly Nesmachnyi transmission. So, laughter is one of the best natural medicines for pain.

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