8 minutes of laughter a day would help combat the effects of stress and boost your joie de vivre by releasing dopamine, the good mood hormone. And the health benefits of optimism don’t stop there…
Good mood = good cardiovascular health
The most optimistic among us are up to half the risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease, say scientists from the prestigious Harvard School of Public Health1, who combed through more than 200 studies. According to researchers, a positive state of mind encourages us to exercise more, eat better, get enough sleep, and thus helps to ward off blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and other heart problems.
optimism once morest pain
The Positive thought, as effective as a dose of morphine? Without going that far, medical imaging has shown that the areas of our brain involved in the perception of pain are less active when we are convinced that we will have little or no pain. A recent study in people with various cancers also showed that optimists experience less pain during illness, including following surgery.
Positive thinking to boost immune defenses
Optimism, a protection once morest infections? For more than 40 years, psycho-neuro-immunology has been interested, among other things, in the impact of positive thinking on immune defenses. According to its followers, an optimistic attitude in life might – via the nervous system – strengthen the composition of our intestinal microbiota, which itself houses the majority of our immune agents responsible for repelling viruses and microbes of all kinds. Conversely, a poorly diversified intestinal flora would harm our ability to see life in pink. To be continued…
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1. Optimism, lifestyle, and longevity in a racially diverse cohort of womenHayami K. Koga de la Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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