Egg heads in the UK and Germany have discovered that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music increases your levels of antibodies.

The scientists from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune system, decreased after a dose of dance music.

And the boffins reckon that their research shows music could be used to help aid patients’ recovery while in hospital.

Dr Ronny Enk, 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.”

Dr Ronny Enk may or may not look like this dude

The researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes of happy dance music.

They found that levels of the stress hormone cortisol, decreased significantly in those listening to dance music compared to the control group.

And after listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin A, the immune system’s first line of defence, were heightened.

Dr Enk added: “We did not use relaxing music, but rather exciting music that were joyful dance tunes from different centuries.”

[source: telegraph.co.uk]

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