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the humorist, or a speech or someone gives you To learn more about the health benefits
chances to laugh. Doesn’t laughing just feel great? discussed in this artcle, here is a short list of
Turns out there’s a good reason for that. Laughter references
invigorates your immune system, it makes your 1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
heart happy, it makes your brain function more pii/S0010945214001543
harmoniously, and it makes your cells sing. 2. http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/

Toastmasters reminds me of greatness uploads/2013/08/Bressler_Large-Scale_
Brain_10.pdf
3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/
At every meeting when our Invocator leads articles/201203/the-perfect-amount-stress
the Pledge of Allegiance, I feel my heart swell as 4. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/
I was reminded what makes America great —the article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100903
pursuit of “Liberty and Justice for all.“ As I felt 5. http://www.pnas.org/content/111/46/16331.full
my heart swell, I knew that in that moment, my 6. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/0
health was getting a boost. 5/27/0956797610372631
The environment we choose to immerse 7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12652
ourselves, in a very real way plays through our 882?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg
brains and our bodies, and are all important to Cari Corbet-Owen is an author, speaker and
our health. What’s the environment in your club aging well expert who studies the health habits
like? Does it make your cells sing a healthful of centenarians around the globe to see what they
mozart? I leave you wth one final thought: Your have in common that makes them live to 100+.
Toastmasters membership could be providing She helps people revolutionize their health (www.
you with health measures for pennies on the revolutionaryhealthtips). She is the past-president
dollar. of the Vancouver Toastmasters Club and a DTM.

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