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Article: LAUGHTER JUST MIGHT RATE AMONG THE BEST MEDICINE RESEARCHERS SAY HUMOR BOOSTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND KEYS OTHER POSITIVE EFFECTS.
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1996
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HEALTH
If you could bottle a belly laugh or compress a good guffaw into a pill, the result would be a superdrug capable of treating everything from a bout with the blues to heart disease and cancer.
Laughing, researchers said, is hearty medicine that boosts the immune system and triggers a flood of pleasure-inducing neurochemicals in the brain.
Two California scientists who study the mysteries of mirth and the medical benefits of chortling, giggling and being overcome by a hoot say humor has health-enhancing properties, some of which have yet to be explored.
"If we took what we now know about laughter and bottled it," ...