Laughter has been known to be very helpful to our bodies and this is very much so. It has been found that two hours of painless sleep is added to patients of ankylosing spondylitis who are exposed to ten minutes of comedy. These are very interesting statistics and they show clearly that laughter might actually be indeed the best medicine. Before we even look at more statistics, how do you feel when you are laughing? the feeling is hard to describe but one thing is for sure, it is a pleasurable experience which enables us to reach great heights of happiness and joy. This is the perfect recipe to eliminate stress. If you are able to laugh your way through situations, you  have the ability to withstand anything making you immune against the harmful effects of stress.

Researchers have been on the front line to study exactly what happens when laughter takes place and how our immune systems are protected and made better by laughter. Two researchers from Loma Linda university in California, have published their study on how laughter affects our immune system. They are Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan and their results and conclusions were as follows. Laughing was found to reduce blood pressure, it was also found to reduce stress hormones. This will ensure that effects of stress for you will be a thing of the past for you. Laughter was also found to increase muscle flexion which ensure proper function of the muscles. Also with laughter, there was an increase in infection fighting T cells.

The discoveries were many and they will make you feel like laughing the whole day and the problem is finding a good joke. laughter helps in the production of the body's natural painkillers which are called endorphins. Also there will be production of disease fighting antibodies. When you laugh you breath in more and this improves your respiration and this is especially recommended for patients who suffer from respiratory diseases like emphysema. There are therefore more gains when it comes to laughing and even before you suffer from stress you should take it up and follow through with it and this is advise for everyone.

Some people have a problem while finding jokes to laugh at. This is totally not the case and it is an excuse that people make to justify their stress. You will find a joke that is funny to you and it might be boring to another therefore, humor tends to  be a bit for individual taste but, there are jokes that serve almost everyone and the first thing you need to do is to find some comedy programs which are popular and get to experience what they might be about. There are also live comedy shows that you can attend. You can choose to go down memory lane and remember some of the things that made you crack. There is no doubt you will be smiling and that is all that is required to evade stress.