2023-07-16 22:48:34
Be queen once! Not only because aristocrats lead a good life, but also, viewed from the outside, a very relaxed and often long life.
Of course, if you have a lot of money, you can afford quality healthcare. But healthy living also means doing something good for body and mind on a regular basis. About with music.
The day rearview mirror
This column, usually on anniversaries in the fields of science, technology, nature and medicine, appears every weekday in the Science section, also in the printed newspaper.
On July 17, 1717, 306 years ago today, at 8 p.m. local time, King George I of England and his entourage gathered on the Thames to hear the premiere of George Frideric Handel’s “Water Music”. The composition was performed by an orchestra on 50 boats. The king liked the 48 minutes of music so much that he had it played three times.
All healthy things come in threes: King George had Handel’s Water Music played three times. © Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman/Wiki CC
Whether this idea alone contributed to the relatively healthy and long, 67-year life of the king is an open question. But hundreds of years following the Baroque concert on the Thames, scientists were still trying to find out what happens in the human body when listening to classical music.
It is now known that music influences the autonomic nervous system – the nerve cells that control the cardiovascular system. The water music in particular, means the German Hypertension League, the medical specialist society for high blood pressure, influence on the heart and respiratory rate as well as blood pressure.
Researchers have even been able to establish a relationship between melodious melodies and the immune system. After music therapy, the immune system of mice tolerated transplanted hearts better. The number of immune cells that ensure that the transplanted heart is not rejected increased when the mice listened to classical music during the operation. What’s more, the proportion of anti-inflammatory messenger substances in the mice’s bodies increased, while pro-inflammatory immune signals decreased. The mice in the experiment lived longer than following heart transplants without classical music.
More daytime rearview mirrors
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Whether depression, stroke or dementia: classical music does not heal diseases, but it can have a health-promoting effect. The author of these lines has now also tried it with Handel’s water music – whether it will be successful remains to be seen.
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