Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've often stated that for every minute of laughter, you produce somewhere around $10,000 worth of healthy body chemistry, and what I mean is that if you had to go out and actually purchase these refined chemical compounds from labs or pharmaceutical companies, you would have to pay at least $10,000 for the very same chemistry that your brain is producing free of charge when you engage in laughter.
Some of these are brain-altering chemicals such as serotonin; others are immune-boosting chemicals such as interleukins. |
| The chemistry of laughter
Now let's look at the biochemical impact of laughter. When you laugh, there's a lot more going on in your body than just the physical effect. You're also experiencing a biochemical benefit.
Your body manufactures chemicals based on certain needs and then distributes them throughout your body. When you laugh, you generate a wealth of healing biochemicals. |
| Secondly, laughter increases oxygenation of your body at both the cellular and organ level. By laughing, you intake vast amounts of oxygen in huge gulps, and you repeat this process in a sort of temporary hyperventilation session. This is the natural result of laughter, and if you watch someone laugh, you will notice these biophysical effects.
Now, why is oxygen so good for your body? Oxygen is one of the primary catalysts for biological energy in the human body. |
| By engaging in laughter, you can boost both your mind and your body.
But what if you can't find anything to laugh about? Rent some funny movies. Join a comedy improv class. Imagine all your older friends wearing no clothes. Buy some silly finger puppets and invent a funny skit. Learn from children: they still know how to play and laugh. Find a way to get laughter into your life, even if it means being a little weird.
This article is a content segment from the book, the Five Habits of Health Transformation by Mike Adams. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Note that this image will also increase the oxygenation of your body by causing you to rapidly inhale and exhale during the process of laughter. This boosts brain function, immune function and even the circulation of lymph fluids throughout your body.
Laughter is powerful medicine. It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Find a way to get laughter into your life, even if it means being a little weird.
This article is a content segment from the book, the Five Habits of Health Transformation by Mike Adams. The book covers the five most effective, yet effortless strategies for enhancing health. Written for busy people, it explains how to get the greatest health results possible with the least investment in time, money or effort. |
| This is the natural result of laughter, and if you watch someone laugh, you will notice these biophysical effects.
Now, why is oxygen so good for your body? Oxygen is one of the primary catalysts for biological energy in the human body. Remember, we breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, so oxygen is an element of intracellular energy that's absolutely necessary to sustain human life.
It's also interesting to note that cancer cells are destroyed in the presence of oxygen. |
Anne Harrington
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 The first evidence that the "laughter" treatment was working, he reported, came when he discovered that "10 minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep." This was just the beginning. Over a period of mere weeks, a combination of "the laughter routine" with massive injections of vitamin C led to a rapid remission of virtually all of his debilitating symptoms. |
Dan Buettner
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 In 2005, researchers at the University of Maryland showed that laughter helped relax blood vessels, linking it to healthier function and a possible decreased risk of heart attack. Others have found that laughter may lower blood pressure and increase the amount of disease-fighting cells found in the body. and tomatoes, and he slapped the cement wall with glee when he noticed how much his own tomatoes had ripened.
Then there was Ethel Meilicke, 108, who lived in the nursing home part of Linda Valley Villa. |
Jack Challem
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 In later experiments, Berk reported that laughter boosted the activity of immune cells, which help you fight colds, flus, and other diseases.
Laughter is a good way to gauge the mental health of other people, and I often say that you can't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. It's also important to pay attention to what someone finds funny. Racist and sexist humor is offensive and says a lot about the person making the wisecracks—and about the people laughing at those jokes. Conversely, wit or puns reflect a sharp perceptiveness about the common absurdities of life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. You will:
Heal injuries more quickly
Recover from surgery more rapidly
Fight infection more effectively
Reduce the perception of pain
Reduce or eliminate symptoms of depression
Feel better about being alive!
Looking for even more laughter? Check out this amazing video of a white parrot dancing to The Backstreet Boys: Click here to view it now. (Video may not play due to traffic overload, try it later at night or on the weekend... |
| It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. You will:
Heal injuries more quickly
Recover from surgery more rapidly
Fight infection more effectively
Reduce the perception of pain
Reduce or eliminate symptoms of depression
Feel better about being alive! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By associating their names with this document, these doctors, nurses and oncologists have cemented their names in a document of great historical significance: It will be looked upon with ridicule and laughter in the near future -- held up as an example of the incredible arrogance and short-sightedness of doctors in an era of pharmaceutical-controlled medicine.
In my view, there is hardly a greater example of high-IQ stupidity in organized medicine today than this breast cancer task force document. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Laugh. laughter appears to release endorphins just as creative pursuits do. By improving your outlook, you'll feel more energetic and ready to tackle life.
Helpful: Watch funny movies.. .read cartoons ...share humorous stories and jokes with your family and friends.
•Think young. To a large extent, your own mindset dictates how much energy you have as you age. If you expect the worst, you're likely to feel tired and unwell. On the other hand, if you expect to stay vital, you'll fight off disease that can sap energy and well-being—and you'll add years to your life. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Her world was filled with love and lots of laughter. It appeared that nothing could penetrate the safe haven of her family. But Michelle's carefree life changed. Doctors discovered the discomfort she was experiencing in her back and abdomen came from an aggressive cancer called a neuroblastoma. The family was devastated.
Michelle underwent exploratory surgery shortly after the diagnosis. When the surgeon emerged from the operating room, the family could see from his face that the news was not good. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter."
One is harassed, both day and night, by the divine being that is the image of the living self within the locked labyrinth of one's own disoriented psyche. The ways to the gates have all been lost: there is no exit. One can only cling, like Satan, furiously, to oneself and be in hell; or else break, and be annihilate at last, in God. |
| The eight millions of divinities were so amused that their laughter filled the air, and the plain of high heaven shook.
The sun-goddess in the cave heard the lively uproar and was amazed. She was curious to know what was going on. Slightly opening the door of the heavenly rock-dwelling, she spoke thus from within: "I thought that owing to my retirement the plain of heaven would be dark, and likewise the central land of reed plains would all be dark: how then is it that Uzume makes merry, and that likewise the eight millions of gods all laugh? |
Ron Garner
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 Humor. laughter. These are very powerful.
The power of our minds. Decision. Determination. Discipline.
Positive attitudes.
Positive lifestyles—free of excesses and abuses. Sleep. Rest. Relaxation. Diet and nutrition.
Clean blood. Blood circulation. Exercise. Self control. Moderation. Cleanliness.
Your body's innate wisdom. Let it take care of itself. Provide it with what it needs.
Remember that no drug, or artificial, synthetic, refined, processed, chemically treated food, pill, supplement or substance exists that has the ability to create new cells or to heal the body. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 You've probably heard the saying: 'Laughter is the best medicine.' It is also a great breathing exercise. 'Internal jogging' is the way Dr William Fry, a psychiatry professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, described laughing. Laughing involves i:he same muscle activity as exercising.
It brings more oxygen into the lungs and cells and helps rid the body of carbon dioxide. It relaxes you. And, as Dr Fry observed, 'You can laugh a lot more times a day than you can do push-ups.'
Sound the letters M and N, mmmm...nnnnn..., as you breathe out long and slow. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 The doctor will feed something funny to the right side while the left laughs and concocts a strange explanation for his laughter: "That white coat you are wearing is very funny." The fact that the left frontal area doesn't recognize the feeling doesn't stop it from manufacturing all sorts of rationales. In brief, the right side input is forcing it to create rationales, as it does in both meditation and neurosis where the disconnection is enhanced.
There is a study in New Scientist (2005) indicating that in practiced meditators there is a thickening of the nerve tissue in the prefrontal cortex. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The presence of toxins in the intestinal tract may give rise to nervousness, hyperactivity, nervous laughter or any other emotionally volatile condition. As a generalization, it can be said that toxins in the intestines are the physical counterparts of negative thoughts. Through the mind/body connection, negative thoughts and feelings translate into poisons and vice versa. Normally, the immune system, two-thirds of which is located in the intestines, takes care of both physical and mental toxins (negative thoughts and feelings). |
| Others recovered from a terminal illness when they got "addicted" to laughter. Our physical makeup is capable of providing formerly unknown and extremely powerful chemicals in response to a newly adopted perception of reality. This intrinsic ability of the human mind/body system can help evolve our hormonal system (endocrine system) to a much higher level of efficiency and bestow abilities to our body that are beyond our current level of understanding or imagination. |
Marshall Editions
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 Ignatia: If trembling and twitching is linked to feeling overwhelmingly emotional and tense, and you move quickly from bouts of sobbing to hysterical laughter when under pressure, try Ignatia. Tightness and tension of the muscles leads to constant sighing, and possibly bouts of hiccuping.
Belladonna: This is a remedy worth considering if muscular twitching is especially prevalent at night when trying to sleep. Symptoms include a tendency to jerk awake just as you are about to drift off to sleep, and teeth grinding. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Looking for even more laughter? Check out this amazing video of a white parrot dancing to The Backstreet Boys: Click here to view it now. (Video may not play due to traffic overload, try it later at night or on the weekend...)
The Mind-Body Connection
The study of the connection between the mind and the immune system is called psychoneuroimmunology, and it's a fascinating field of study that clearly demonstrates just how much control the mind has over the health status of the body. You can read more about this at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia. |
Anne Harrington
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| Is it possible that love, hope, faith, laughter, confidence and the will to live have therapeutic value? Do chemical changes occur only on the downside?47
Cousins decided it was in his interest to find out. With the support of an open-minded doctor, he arranged to be checked out of the hospital and into a hotel ("I had a fast-growing conviction that a hospital was no place for a person who was seriously ill"), where he began to manage his own recovery. The sense of control this produced in its own right was, he believed, health inducing. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The one new clinical feature of manganese poisoning that began to emerge from these new cases was a tendency among the most heavily exposed to display peculiar mental disturbances such as uncontrolled laughter and weeping.
To the public health hygienists who investigated this World War I industry outbteak, it was self-evident that even rudimentary dust control measures might prevent the worst manifestations of disease. To this was added the "urgent hope . . . |
Anne Harrington
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| Over a period of mere weeks, a combination of "the laughter routine" with massive injections of vitamin C led to a rapid remission of virtually all of his debilitating symptoms. The account he offered of his remarkable recovery ended with a description of himself—who had once been nearly paralyzed—standing in the surf in Puerto Rico, then jogging on the beach, and then finally back at work full-time at the Saturday Review. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Cataplexy may be triggered by sudden emotional reactions, such as anger, fear, or laughter, and can last anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. During these events, the person remains conscious.
Narcolepsy can also cause temporary paralysis, in which the person is unable to talk or move when falling asleep or waking up, and hypnagogic hallucinations, potentially frightening dreamlike experiences that sometimes occur in stage 1 sleep. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Recent press release headings that sit on my desk as I type these pages announce "An optimistic view can help protect a person's health when faced with family member's death and illness"; "Personality trait may influence immune system response"; "Laughter is good for your heart, according to a new University of Maryland Medical Center study"; "Hotheads may be hurting their hearts"; and "Oscar winners live longer than Oscar nominees. |
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