Growing up my parent’s best cure for any kind of despair was a nice good
laugh. Laughter may now be used to help with age driven memory loss. An article
on Medical News Today was published about
how Loma Linda University conducted a study to test the memory ability of
elderly people. Their experiment included 3 groups of people: elderly with
diabetes watching video, elderly watching video, and elderly not watching
video. Their cortisol levels were measured before and after watching the funny video.
The stress hormone
cortisol has been shown to reduce the memory ability of elderly people. With
playing a funny video, the cortisol levels of the participants lowered causing
an increase in their memory. With this advancement diseases such as Alzheimer's may be able to take a step forward in finding a cure. So next time you can remember something make yourself laugh because laughter really is the cure.
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