Slow Down The Aging Process: Controlling Anger

There's an old saying that says 'laughter is the best medicine'—it might have a point. A study has shown that people who are 'tortured' by anger tend to recover from injury longer than normal, and this can give you problems on your effort to slow the aging process.

Several previous research has indicated a link between temperamental behavior, whether it's any bluffing or reckless on the road, with the high cases of coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke, and also accelerate the aging process, especially among men. A new research published in the journal Brain, Behavior, Immunity, shows how anger affects the healing process. This research conducted by experts from the University of Ohio is the first experiment that directly measures the effect of anger toward healing.

The researchers involved over 90 participants who were given a small wound on their arms. Participants were then monitored over eight days while they wait and see how fast the injury is healed by itself. Before they took the test, participants must pass through some kind of psychological test to determine how easily they often feel angry. Then, researchers made ratings based on "resentment scale". Participants who ate a certain drugs, or smoking, drinking coffee or caffeine in large quantities are removed from the study. The same thing also applied to those whose weight is too extreme. (either too thin or too fat).

And then the result came—and it was quite clear. Participants who have problems in controlling emotions or anger are 4 times longer to heal or recover from their wounds, compared to those who could control their temper.

Researchers also noted that this same group of people showed the secretion of stress hormones or high cortisol, which explain the differences in recovery time. Previous research has shown a clear relationship between cortisol and anger. The man who yelled at spouses during a fight his body issuing hormone endocrine modulator within minutes, as well as teachers who experience stress while teaching in class. Keeping the level of cortisol constantly high can increase your stress levels, which leads to (among other things) increased facial tension causing deep wrinkles. Cortisol inhibits the body’s ability to produce collagen, meaning the rate at which skin wrinkles and loses its elasticity will increase. Researchers also indicate that high levels of cortisol seem to decrease the production of cytokines proteins that play an important role in the recovery process. Cytokines are proteins released by immune cells. This protein functions as a signal so the immune system can grow or expand in our body.

So, the ability to control your anger is clinically related to the healing of your wound and the regenerated of your cells, which mean it has great impact to your aging process. On the next article, we are gonna talk about why laughter can work twice faster than aspirin.


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