We all knew it was good, now it's official.
Laughter helps breast milk to fight skin allergies.
according to a study by Hajime Kimata at the Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka, Japan, breastfed babies with eczema experienced less symptoms if their mothers laughed hours before feeding them,
Participating babies and some of the mothers suffered from mild atopic eczema - the most common type. By showing breastfeeding mothers either a feature length Charlie Chaplin movie or bland footage of weather information, and taking samples of breast milk at regular intervals afterwards, hajime was able to correlate the effects of laughter. Two milk feeds later, he measured babies' allergic reactions to dust mites and latex. Infants whose mothers had laughed had quite strongly reduced reactions.
Kimata also found significantly higher levels of melatonin in the mothers' milk. This hormone, known as the relaxation hormone, has reduced levels in people with eczema.
That Laughing meditation man from India is sounding smarter every day.
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