#PWW Recording: Juneteenth Joy- Laughter as Medicine! [Video]

#PhyteWell Wednesday Recording: Juneteenth Joy- Laughter as Medicine [Video]

REFERENCES

• Arlene Geronimus’s Weathering Theory: How poverty, racism and other social threats accelerate aging and disease

• The CTRA (Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31592179/

• Laughter can lower inflammatory markers: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286260

• Gratitude journaling intervention improves inflammatory markers in heart failure patients:

  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4927423/

• Even forced laughter improves mood: 10.2466/pr0.2002.90.1.184

• Laughter is powerful, but it isn’t magic. It’s anti-inflammatory power may be less effective in severe disease (like rheumatoid arthritis): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16319105/