Laughter and Stand-up

The main ideas from this information are: - A study presented at a medical conference showed that people with coronary heart disease who regularly watched comedy shows had benefits to their heart and circulation compared to those who watched serious documentaries. - Laughter therapy led to improvements in the heart and circulation, including increased artery expansion, oxygen flow, and reduced inflammation markers. - Laughter releases endorphins, reduces stress hormones, and can be used as therapy. - Laughter yoga is being offered as part of a pilot scheme to improve patient well-being. - More research is needed to determine the long-term effects of laughter therapy on heart patients. - The host also discusses personal experiences with stand-up comedy and why some people may not enjoy it. Welcome to tonight's show. Tonight we'll be talking about one of my favorite moods, it's laughter, and we'll talk about how joy affects health, why laughter is the best medicine. Later on in the show we're talking about why stand-up comedy, why you should try out some stand-up comedy in your life at least once, and why some people don't like stand-up comedy. I can't understand that personally. I know my wife for example, she hates stand-up comedy. I'm going to be talking about why that is, why certain people hate stand-up comedy, and some certain people enjoy it. I personally, I enjoy it, but obviously I don't enjoy all stand-up comedy. I think that some comedians they, for example, swear too much, and that's unnecessary. But when it comes to someone like my wife, and I know there's many people out there who probably hate stand-up comedy for many many different reasons. We'll discuss that later on in the show. First of all we're going to take a short break, we're going to listen to some music, and we get straight into our topics about why laughter is the best medicine. You're listening to SRFM, the heart of KSA. 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You're like a breath of fresh air on a summer night. You're like a breath of fresh air on a summer night. You're like a breath of fresh air on a summer night. Results presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in 2023 show that people with coronary heart disease who regularly watched comedy shows had benefits to their heart and circulatory system compared to those who watched serious documentaries. It was the first randomized clinical trial to study the effects of laughter on people with coronary heart disease, the main cause of heart attacks, obviously. A group of 26 people with an average age of 64 took part in a 12-week trial. Half, so 13 people, were asked to follow a course of laughter therapy which involved watching comedy shows twice a week and the other half, the other 13, watched neutral or serious documentaries on topics like politics, for example. The health benefits of laughter. The results showed that laughter therapy led to improvements in the heart and circulation. The arteries were able to expand to a greater extent, oxygen flow around the body increased, and inflammation markers in the blood which can help predict the chance of a heart attack or stroke, reduce. While this was a relatively small study, other research has shown that positive effects of laughter on the body. Laughter releases endorphins, known as feel-good hormones. It increases the oxygen-rich air you take in and reduces stress hormones, bringing down your heart rate and blood pressure and causing your muscles to relax. By the way, the stress hormone is called cortisol. So doctors can prescribe laughter. Professor Marcus Apley, who conducted this experiment, has suggested that laughter could be used as therapy. People with heart disease could be invited to comedy evenings or encouraged to enjoy fun evenings with friends and family. Doctors in Bristol and Coventry, obviously in England, are offering laughter yoga, a combination of breathing exercises and deliberate laughter as part of a pilot scheme to improve their patient's well-being. They found that laughter therapy led to improvements in heart and circulation. But we may be some way off this being expanded to help heart patients. The British Heart Foundation's Associate Medical Director, Professor James Laper, says we don't yet know whether laughter could be a treatment for coronary heart disease. Commenting on Professor Apley's study, saying, While the study reveals the interesting possibility that laughter could be in fact therapy for coronary heart disease, this small trial will need to be replicated to get a better understanding of how laughter therapy may be helping these patients. It's encouraging to see that something so simple and widespread could benefit our health, but more research is needed to determine whether laughter alone led to the improvement seen and how long the effects could last. So I'm going to discuss this a bit after the break. I'm enjoying the show. I really find it very interesting because I grew up watching a movie called Patch Adams. I don't know if you've seen that movie with Robin Williams and he's becoming a doctor and he wants to become a very serious doctor, but he wants to use laughter as a way to help people. So it's not the first time that this has ever been discussed in the medicinal world or the medical world out there. We're going to take a short break. We're going to get back into this topic. Hope you're enjoying it so far. 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