Johnsy gets off the team bus doubled over with laughter from anticipation, I don't think he'll even make the field.
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Laughter is the best medicine, we’ve heard this proverb countless times. What are the origins of this proverb ? I don’t know nor could I find an answer.
Dr Craig Hassed stated "Laughter really is good medicine. It reduces stress, relieves pain, lowers blood pressure and boosts the immune system. It puts people at ease and lowers the tension level in your relationships. Frequent laughter may even reduce your risk for heart disease."
Dr. Hassed is a senior lecturer at Monash University within the medical Faculty. He has been instrumental in introducing a variety of innovations into medical education and practice via holistic, integrative and mind/body medicine, and reconnecting different knowledge systems. If this guy says it’s true it must be, right ?
really?
A quick internet search can reveal other beneficial claims;
Laughing 100 times equals 15 minutes on an exercise bike. Vigorous laughter increases heart rate & deepens the breathing rate, while using muscles in the face, stomach, and diaphragm. Laughter can reduce stress, help fight infection, and reduce pain. The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
Laughter causes positive changes in brain chemistry by releasing endorphins, and it brings more oxygen into the body with the deeper inhalations.
Laughter releases anger, fear, guilt, anxiety and tension.
Higher levels of an antibody (salivary immunoglobulin A) that fights infectious organisms entering the respiratory tract were found in the saliva of people who watched humorous videos or experienced good moods.
Researchers found after watching an hour-long video of slapstick comedy that the "natural killer cells," which seek out and destroy malignant cells, more actively attacked tumor cells in test tubes.
A recent study by Shevach Friekder found that laughter will also help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilisation ('IVF').
In a study of 219 women undergoing IVF published in Fertility and Sterility, an Israeli team led by Shevach Friedler found that the odds of success were greater among women who were entertained by a professional 'medical clown' just after the embryos were transferred to their wombs.
Overall, 36 percent became pregnant, as compared to 20 percent of women who'd had a comedy-free recovery after the transfer procedure. (1)
Another recent study showed those who have a good sense of humour and a propensity to laugh are less likely to develop heart disease. Meeting stressful situations with a sense of humour is relevant to heart health. Fostering a happy frame of mind may bring allergy relief. In the study, the allergic responses of study participants were significantly lower after viewing a humorous videotape than they were after viewing a non-humorous tape. Researchers are not sure why laughter may alleviate allergic symptoms. However, laughter does reduce stress, tension and anxiety, which may help strengthen the immune system. (2)
And it gets better
If you have diabetes, ensure you put laughter on the menu. Laughter helps control spikes in blood sugar levels after a meal. People who watched a funny video during dinner had lower blood sugar levels after the meal compared to the people who didn’t. (3)
With obvious health benefits why hasn’t rugby league in general grabbed this health revelation and integrated it into their weekly recovery process?
One thing is for sure rugby league has been laughing for a while now, do you remember this ?
Manly V Souths 1987, at redfern oval. Steve Mavin’s infamous Swan Dive no try. You cannot help but laugh at the poor bloke, no matter how many times you see the footage.
Of course there is the rugby league legend that just keeps delivering the laughs, Mario fenech
Gotta go to Nowra (4), Gidley boys prank Falcon (5), Lord of the rings (6).
It makes you feel great, for those few minutes you are laughing everything is great, no hassles, no worries. Nothing embodies this sentiment quite like the following two quotes;
Osho Rajneesh - "When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all vibrate in one single tune. They all vibrate in harmony!"
Anne Wilson Schaef - "Laughter is like the human body wagging it's tail."
MaybeProfesor Provine (7). Is right when he says 
"Laughter is about relationships, it's not about jokes. It's a form of communication."
Well there is one clear defining communication method that makes all rugby league fans feel better about themselves. Come on, join in. You’ll reap the benefits instantly.
LOL@50uff$
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http://clowndoctors.org.au
2- Effect of humour on allergen-induced wheat reactions. Kimata, H., Journal of the American Medical Association 2001 Feb 14; 285(6):738
3- Laughter lowered the increase in postprandial blood glucose.
Hayashi K, Hayashi T, Iwanaga S, Kawai K, Ishii H, Shoji S, Murakami K.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOaVsNGbYQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgGF_KLfDjg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaoD13mvCmc&feature=related
7- Robert Provine Professor, Psychology University of Maryland, Baltimore County