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Laughter can work wonders for us and experts say we need at least one really good chuckle a day. In a recent Loma Linda University study, researchers split 20 adults into two groups. One group got to laugh at funny videos for 20 minutes while the other group had to sit in a not-so-funny environment. They analyzed the saliva of everyone afterwards and the laughing group had significantly lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
Cortisol zaps us of memory and can weaken the immune system. By lowering that with laughter on a daily basis we can improve our overall physical and mental health, not to mention our mood.
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