The health benefits of singing
Of course, not everyone can sing well. There are many people around us who are easy to sing out of tune, and Bian Xiao is actually a person who loves to sing out of tune. But this does not affect our love for music. Is it impossible to sing without vocal skills and professional knowledge? Is singing necessarily the job of a professional singer, and we can only be a listener silently? The result is obviously negative. Relevant scientists have concluded that besides artistic value, singing can make us physically and mentally healthy, make us feel happy, and thus enhance our immunity to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a good medicine to maintain physical and mental health? Even if you hum a few words while walking, you will forget your troubles.
Release hormone
Related research professors have conducted long-term research on the role of singing. He said: "Stress will affect the body's immune system. If you feel good about what you are doing, your immune system will be strengthened. "
Researchers have proved that when people sing, their brains release a hormone called oxytocin. A mother who has just given birth to a baby will also release this hormone in her brain when she is breastfeeding her baby. Couples also release this hormone in their brains during sexual intercourse or when lovers stare at each other affectionately. This hormone can enhance the feelings between people. The researchers also found that oxytocin is most released in the human brain during adolescence. Perhaps it is for this reason that many people are particularly impressed by the songs they have heard or sung in adolescence.
The release of this hormone can also explain why some music lovers like to form bands. David hume Lun, a music research expert at Ohio State University, said: "When we sing and dance together, everyone's emotions are synchronized." The army undoubtedly knows this, so they always let the soldiers sing the March together rhythmically.
Enhance immune function
Singing can not only make us happy, but also enhance our immune function to some extent. According to the research of relevant experts, the content of a special immunoglobulin in the choir increased by 65,438 0.50% after each song and increased to 240% after a public performance. It can be seen that although singing can't resist or prevent colds to a certain extent, singing can really enhance our immune system under appropriate circumstances.
Inspired by these studies, Jean Cohen, director of the Center for Aging, Health and Humanities Studies at George Washington University, conducted an experiment to test whether the elderly who have never received vocal training can really benefit from singing. The researchers compared two groups of elderly people over 65 who actively participated in social activities. One group of old people sang under the guidance of a professional conductor every week, while the other group still actively participated in various activities, but did not participate in the choir. A year later, the health index of the elderly in the first group was much higher than that in the second group. Old people who insist on singing go to the hospital to see a doctor and take medicine less often, and the possibility of falling down is less.
Training neural pathway
Other related studies also show that no matter the elderly, young students or the homeless. After the choir sings, you will feel better. In addition, patients with emphysema have improved their breathing after singing training. The study also found that amateur singers have a better personal image.
John Laumel, former president of the National Endowment for the Arts, believes that there is a connection between art and learning. He said: "Music uses the right brain and language uses the left brain. The neural pathway between them is very strong. I can remember the lyrics of almost every song I have sung. It is very important to expose children to music and singing. In my opinion, studying art can train our neural pathways, which is very helpful for us to learn other fields.
Open the neural pathway
Because our emotions are different in different forms after we sing this song, but in most cases they are positive emotions. When we sing, we often use the left brain, while the right brain produces the function of language. Therefore, after we sing songs, not only will our mood change to a certain extent, but our right brain will also get various exercises in different degrees. So singing can open our neural pathways and improve our memory more effectively.
Exercise oral muscles
When singing, people's oral muscles will participate in sports, because when people pronounce, the vibration of vocal cords will drive the muscles in the back of the mouth and upper throat to move. When people sing, the muscles in different parts of the mouth will also be exercised.
Relieve constipation
When singing, abdominal breathing exercises abdominal muscles, which can also stimulate the peristalsis of the large intestine. If it is chronic constipation, it is better to sing more. In addition, the lungs control the fur (skin and hair), and singing can promote deep breathing, make the lung channels smoother, enhance lung function, make the skin color and skin quality more ideal, and also contribute to the growth and moisturizing of hair.
Burning neutral fat
Singing can promote new thanks and strengthen abdominal muscles; At the same time, when the body fat starts to burn, neutral fat is the first thing to burn. Singing can help it burn and help you become a slim beauty. Coupled with the effect of singing and dancing, singing a song can lose quite a lot of fat. The basic breathing method of singing is abdominal breathing, which can make full use of abdominal muscles, promote metabolism, strengthen abdominal muscles and help burn fat.
2. How to protect your voice in winter
Reasonable use of sound
Don't use your voice too much, keep your voice normal, and don't talk loudly even in noisy areas, especially shouting; Don't speak softly on purpose, which is not good for protecting your voice; Don't speak too fast or too long. If you feel dry or hoarse, stop talking. Speak neither too high nor too low, and speak in a low voice.
Proper drinking water
Drink a proper amount of water and make sure to drink 6 glasses of water every day. Keeping the water balance in the body can fully moisten the vocal cords and avoid drinking irritating drinks such as alcohol and coffee. Once you feel hoarse, you can put a boat-fruited Sterculia in the water to protect your throat. Don't drink too hot water.
bland diet
Pay attention to diet, try to eat light food, do not eat or eat less irritating food, especially do not eat spicy food (such as pepper, garlic, ginger, etc.). ), affecting your voice. In addition, don't eat hard and dry food such as frying, so as not to cause mechanical damage to the throat. Don't smoke, and try to stay away from smokers to avoid the pain of passive smoking.
adequate sleep
Don't miss bars, nightclubs and other social places with turbid indoor air, put an end to bad living habits such as staying up late, ensure adequate sleep and avoid throat diseases.
Rinse your mouth frequently
Develop a good habit of gargling, gargle with light salt water every morning, after meals and before going to bed to keep your throat clean. Gargling with light salt water can also reduce inflammation caused by pharyngitis and upper respiratory tract infection.
Be diligent in exercise.
Develop good exercise habits, improve physical fitness through aerobic exercise, increase resistance to diseases, and avoid throat diseases.
tongue
Pay attention to the way you speak, use the appropriate speed and intonation, and speak as peacefully as possible. Don't talk loudly often, which may lead to hoarseness or even loss of voice.
Speaking time
It is best not to talk for more than three hours every day, and not to talk for more than one and a half hours continuously, so that the vocal cords can have a full rest. Use nasal breathing more often, and change chest breathing into abdominal breathing.
Standing throat moistening products
When you are away from home, you can keep some throat moistening products at any time and take them when you feel dry, itchy and painful to stimulate saliva secretion. Pay attention to the weather changes in life, keep your mouth clean, and drink more tea to clear away heat.
pay attention to the diet
Avoid irritating food, eat less overheated, supercooled and spicy food, quit smoking and drink less. Even passive smoking should be avoided, because smoking will obviously increase the risk of laryngeal cancer.
Avoid using your voice when you have a cold.
A cold and fever may be accompanied by a sore throat. At this moment, you must avoid using your voice. If you use your voice too much, it may increase the burden on your throat, cause throat diseases and make the situation worse.
Pay attention to the environment
Automobile exhaust is the natural enemy of throat. If you have just hosted a program or just practiced vocal music, the capillaries in the mouth and pharynx are easily broken, and sometimes we don't feel it. If we go out at this time and accidentally inhale car exhaust or gas containing pollutants, our throat will be easily infected and sick. Therefore, it is suggested that you try to stay in a clean air environment when your throat is tired, otherwise it will easily lead to pharyngitis.
Avoid drug dependence
When drinking water every day, most people like to drink some chrysanthemums and boat-fruited Sterculia, which is also good, but don't get into the habit of relying on drugs, or your throat will often go wrong.
Warm reminder: Singing is a release of mental stress, which makes you feel happy and better prevents physical and mental diseases. So if you love singing in winter, you should pay attention to protecting your voice and drink plenty of water to moisten it.
3. How to relieve hoarse throat?
(1) Siraitia grosvenorii beverage for clearing lung and moistening throat
Take Siraitia grosvenorii with boiling water three times a day, which can clear lung and moisten intestines, relieve summer heat and moisten throat. Suitable for people with lung dryness, cough and bronchitis, especially those with hoarseness caused by long-term use of sound.
(2) Boat-fruited Sterculia can clear the throat and relieve sore throat.
Cleaning boat-fruited Sterculia, Radix Glycyrrhizae and Radix Platycodi, decocting in water, removing residues to get juice, and adding crystal sugar to drink for a while can relieve the symptoms of dry cough without phlegm and hoarseness. Boat-fruited Sterculia boiled water has good effects of clearing and relieving sore throat, moistening lung and relieving cough.