Laughing is good for your health and when you laugh it can reduce stress and anxiety.
Laughing decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals.
Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
When you laugh, your heart rate increases, and you take many deep breaths.
This mean that more oxygenated blood is circulated through your body – improving your vascular function.
Prevents heart disease. Improved vascular function and circulation can also help reduce your risk of a heart disease diagnosis.
Another one of the benefits of laughter is that it can help you tone your abs.
When you are laughing, the muscles in your stomach expand and contract, similar to when you intentionally exercise your abs.
The saying “laughter is the best medicine” is believed to have originated — albeit now in a snappier form —from Proverbs 17.22 of the King James Bible.
When we laugh, our blood flow rises and blood pressure increases, however, when we stop , the blood pressure then drops down to baseline.
Laughing also makes muscles work which leads to initial increase in blood pressure post which there is a sustained drop in it.