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1. Donald Duck walks into the CVS drug store on 86th street and Amsterdam
Avenue.
The druggist puts the medicine in a bag and says, “$4.50 with city sales tax.”
3. Desk signs: “Old accountants never die – they just lose their balance!”
What’s So Funny
Laughing, even at jokes that six-year olds find stupid, acts like an antidepressant
and anxiety-reducer. How? A chemical Insulin-like growth factor in our Right-
Brain “gets” the joke. Google: professor Jeffrery Burgdorf, Northwestern
University.
Dr. Margret Stuber, UCLA Medical School finds laughing, giggling and smiling
is a distracton from life’s seriousness and improves our mood. It causes us to go
to a Positive Emotional Response, and cancels automatic negative thoughts.
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Inquiring Minds want to know what structures in the brain are involved in “Ha-
Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, and Hee-Hee-Hee?”
Look at the Limbic System of the brain, specifically our Prefrontal Cortex,
Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Hypothalamus. Laughing is an instinctual
behavior programmed by our genes. But, we can veto the laughing neuronal
circuit when we decide it is wrong, dangerous or inappropriate.
Solitude
We smile and laugh twenty-times more when we are around other clowns than
in isolation. See, the laughing button is pressed when we are socializing. The
cause is other folks, not the bad joke.
Cardiovascular
A Stanford University researcher, Dr. William Fry says laughing makes our
brain’s PFC (PreFrontal Cortex) release Endorphins (En-dogenous + Morphine.
These Peptides block the pain sensation and resemble opioids (opium-like).
So What
Inquiring Minds: Endorphins make us feel happy and order the body to release
Nitric Oxide, which relaxes and dilates (widens) blood vessels. Wait. Both heart
attacks and strokes occur because of Blood Clots.
A few minutes of daily laughter helps prevent the formation of these clots. It lays
down a safety net for our cardiovascular system for health and long-life.
Who Cares
Listen to this and see if you care. Research on laughing at minor puns or
witticisms by the interviewer at job interviews increases hiring success.
“He laughed at my jokes, I like him already.”
The result: “You’re hired!” Google: Dr. Philip Glenn, Emerson College
Fight or-Flight
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Our powerful Fight-or-Flight System is triggered by hearty laughter. It raises
our heart rate and blood pressure. Result, our immune system is improved and
stress and anxiety is reduced.
Quick Story: surgery patients who watched comedy videos and not dramas,
required less aspirins and tranquilizers. Google: James Rotton, researcher at
Florida International University. It lulls our nonconscious mind to give up stress.
Laff Tracks
Why do TV shows use phony laff tracks that a six-year old knows is not real.
Answer: our nonconscious mind does not know the difference between a real
audience laughing and virtual (make-believe) giggles. Our brain goes along
with the pretend and relaxes deeper with each dopey joke.
Endwords
Babies start smiling and submitting a few laughs to parents from their third-
week of life. By age two-months babies can laugh effortlessly and often.
Bad joke? If we hear or think those three magic syllables, we’re hooked to
laugh. So what? If you decide to improve your health and longevity, take
two-minutes daily to artificially (pretend) smile and laugh. Do the “Ho! -Ha!
-Hee!” make-believe, and you trigger real, actual laughter within 30 seconds.
See ya,
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