#HappyFacts: Inoculate Yourself with Happiness

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

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🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week's facts include: Being in a good mood while getting a flu shot can boost its effectiveness. A study from the University of Notthingham found that of all the factors researchers looked at, a positive mood is the only factor that was associated with a higher level of antibody with an 8 to 14% variance. Boredom can be good for you! So, maybe you're one of those people who would rather staple their tongue to a piece of paper than be bored, but it turns out that boredom has many benefits (beyond not leading you to poke holes in your body). Smiles can be used to convey twice as many indifferent to unhappy emotions as they can happy ones.

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0:00.0	For this segment we call Happy Facts, we bring in our two happiness contributors, Chris Livy, who seems extra happy this week.
0:15.4	How are you doing, bud?
0:16.0	Good.
0:17.0	How are you?
0:18.0	Oh, it's fantastic.
0:19.0	We're on Live Happy Radio.
0:20.0	If I said I was sad, we'd be advertising falsely, and that's illegal. Paula Phelps, it's the Paula Phelps show again this week, everybody, because Paula is going to be interviewing our guests later on. But she joins us from Nashville. How are you, Paula? I'm fantastic. Now I just feel pressured to keep up with you, too. You've got to keep pace. Oh, man. We are are so excited to be here and we're going to have a lot of fun with this segment.
0:41.7	What we do in this segment, if you've never heard, is we take our favorite facts that we've discovered this week about positive psychology, share them and discuss them a little bit on the radio and then encourage you to go to the website, live happy.com, and find a blog that Paula writes that dives deeper and gives you further reading about each of our facts.
0:58.3	So in no particular order, let's get started with Libby's fact.
1:01.9	Well, my fact is just in time for the flu season.
1:05.3	Researchers from the University of Nottingham, where Robin Hood went to college, said being in a good mood while getting a flu shot can actually boost its effectiveness. How's that work? Is it just like the power of positive thing is the placebo effect or what's the... Well, it's... And who's in a good mood when they're getting a flu shot? Certainly not me. I love flu shots personally. That's a little strange, but maybe that's why you get the flu way less than Paula and I do.
1:30.9	Probably. Certainly not me. I love flu shots personally. That's a little strange, but maybe that's why you get the flu way less than Paula
1:30.4	and I do.
1:31.4	Probably.
1:32.4	But no, they looked at different factors like positive mood, negative mood, physical
1:36.6	activity, diet, sleep, and positive mood was the only factor that was associated with
1:41.3	a higher level of influence of antibody within the blood.
1:45.1	So, and it has a lot to do with the immune system.
1:48.2	So keeping that a positive emotion and positive vibe going, that really boost your immune
1:53.6	system.
1:54.1	So it's got to be a hormonal thing, and it's reaching through your blood stream.
1:58.5	Is that correct, or am I way off?
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