A National Public Radio Interview With the world leading scientific investigators Dr Lee Berk. This is a historic recording that discusses:

• the ancient history of laughter in the healing of illness
• the mechanism of the immune effects of laughter
• laughter and the cardiac patient
• understanding laughter at the molecular level
• the future of humor therapy based on research, including the possibility of a humor prescription.
• and much more.

Lee Berk, DrPH, MPH, FACSM, CHES is a pioneer researcher studying positive emotions/behaviors and their biochemical/physiological effects on stress hormones and immune system components. He is Associate Director for the Center of Neuro-immunology; Associate Research Professor of Pathology/Human Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine; and Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Education at Loma Linda University School of Public Health in California.