Music can boost your immune system

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Listening to music can

give your immune system a boost and may help fight off disease,

researchers have discovered.

By Gray, Science Correspondent

Scientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting

dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers' bodies increased.

They also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune

system, decreased after being exposed to the music.

Volunteers who played a percussion instrument along with the music also

benefited from the immune boost.

The researchers, from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in

Leipzig, Germany, say their findings demonstrate how music could be

used to help aid patients' recovery while in hospital.

In a separate, unpublished, study they also found that playing music

while a patient was under anaesthetic during an operation also helped

to lower the levels of harmful stress hormones.

Dr Ronny Enk, a neurocognition expert at the Max Planck Institute, who

led the research, said: "We think the pleasant state that can be

induced by music leads to special physiological changes which

eventually lead to stress reduction or direct immune enhancement.

"Stress reduction probably plays an important role, but the stress

reducing effect seems to be different for various types of music."

The researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes

of happy, joyful dance music or to a random collection of tones.

They found that levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, decreased

significantly in those listening to the dance music compared to the

control group. After listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin

A, the immune system's first line of defence, were heightened.

The researchers did not test whether different types of music would

have different affects, but other studies have shown that personal

preference for music can also influence the stress reducing impact it

can have.

Dr Enk added: "We'd expect that different kinds of music might show

different physiological and immunological effects. Not only the music

itself is important but probably the personal appraisal of the listener

will also be important. We did not use relaxing music, but rather

exciting music that were joyful dance tunes from different centuries.

"Listening to music in hospitals might show benefits for patients and

may for example lead to shorter recovery times, but we are still to

test this ourselves."

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[Guest guest]

" Joyful dance music... " I'm thinking Swing. Anyone else have some

joyful dance music ideas?

Colleen

>

> *Listening to music can give your immune system a boost and may help

> fight off disease, researchers have discovered.

> *

> /By Gray, Science Correspondent/

>

> Scientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting

> dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers' bodies increased.

>

> They also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune

> system, decreased after being exposed to the music.

>

> Volunteers who played a percussion instrument along with the music also

> benefited from the immune boost.

>

> The researchers, from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in

> Leipzig, Germany, say their findings demonstrate how music could be

used

> to help aid patients' recovery while in hospital.

>

> In a separate, unpublished, study they also found that playing music

> while a patient was under anaesthetic during an operation also

helped to

> lower the levels of harmful stress hormones.

>

> Dr Ronny Enk, a neurocognition expert at the Max Planck Institute, who

> led the research, said: " We think the pleasant state that can be

induced

> by music leads to special physiological changes which eventually

lead to

> stress reduction or direct immune enhancement.

>

> " Stress reduction probably plays an important role, but the stress

> reducing effect seems to be different for various types of music. "

>

> The researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes

> of happy, joyful dance music or to a random collection of tones.

>

> They found that levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, decreased

> significantly in those listening to the dance music compared to the

> control group. After listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin

> A, the immune system's first line of defence, were heightened.

>

> The researchers did not test whether different types of music would

have

> different affects, but other studies have shown that personal

preference

> for music can also influence the stress reducing impact it can have.

>

> Dr Enk added: " We'd expect that different kinds of music might show

> different physiological and immunological effects. Not only the music

> itself is important but probably the personal appraisal of the listener

> will also be important. We did not use relaxing music, but rather

> exciting music that were joyful dance tunes from different centuries.

>

> " Listening to music in hospitals might show benefits for patients and

> may for example lead to shorter recovery times, but we are still to

test

> this ourselves. "

>

>

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m.html

>

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>

[Guest guest]

If you are looking to use music to raise your vibration, I'm told that

opera singers have the highest.

Carol

>

> Classic rock. ;-) Only music I listen to, when I bother to listen.

>

> Samala,

>

>

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>

> " Joyful dance music... " I'm thinking Swing. Anyone else have some

> joyful dance music ideas?

>