Laughter Is Not The Best Medicine?

“Laughter is not the best medicine”.  That’s what a scientist has pointed out.

A recent study was conducted by Dr. Margaret Stuber, a psychiatry professor at University of California, about whether laughter truly helps patients.

After discussing and analyzing, she found out that laughter helps in mood improvement and lessening distraction, but she could not find a benefit from laughter alone (Discovery News).

"No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit", Baltimore's Neuroscientist Robert Provine said. Provine studied laughter and its benefits for decades. However, he stresses that it doesn't really matter.  "Isn't the fact that laughter feels good when you do it, isn't that enough?” he added.

"Laughter above all else is a social thing," He said. "The requirement for laughter is another person."