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Writing in the Good Health Newsletter, John Ryan said recently: ‘…few realise that jokes, humor and comedy are truly medicines, in their own right.’
‘It’s established that optimists live longer than pessimists,’ Ryan said. ‘But now there is some hard evidence that people with a better sense of humor also have longer and healthier lives.’
‘Your Stay Healthy plan should include a joke and a 20-minute comedy show, to go with the broccoli and carrots,’ Ryan suggests. (Of course we’d add Berry Radical and In-Liven to this plan!)
Although yet to be conclusively proven, it is widely accepted that laughter increases pain resistance. What research there is also indicates that people who readily laugh out loud, also do better during treatment for diseases such as cancer.
According to Mr Ryan, it’s believed ‘that a good joke may lower the blood pressure, improve memory and cognitive functions and boost the immune system …and that a good sense of humor may protect you against heart diseases and alter your biochemical state to a level where the organism produces more antibodies’.
But of course, there’s one more really important aspect to laughing. You generally do it with someone. Jokes connect people – and connected people suffer less from loneliness, depression and mental imbalances.