{"id":5754,"date":"2024-01-20T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/?page_id=5754"},"modified":"2024-01-20T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:58:28","slug":"how-to-boost-dopamine-naturally","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/how-to-boost-dopamine-naturally\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Boost Dopamine Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with Parkinson&#8217;s have lost their sense of humor. This is no longer true for Parkinson&#8217;s Recovery members!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5754-1\" width=\"840\" height=\"416\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jokes-page.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jokes-page.mp4\">https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jokes-page.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Laughter creates more dopamine than taking medications, drugs, herbs or supplements. OK. I admit it. I do not have a shred of evidence to prove this assertion, other than &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The thousands of people with the symptoms of Parkinson&#8217;s who tell me it helps them feel better.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Why not help yourself feel better the fun way?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some people tell me nothing seems to strike them as funny. Not even the great jokes here!<\/p>\n<p>Guess what. It doesn&#8217;t even matter whether you think the joke is funny. If you make yourself laugh from your belly-call it fake laughing or phony laughing you will manufacture hormones your body needs in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Different jokes appeal to different people and to different sexes. You are probably not going to find every joke that is published here to be funny. When you read a totally stupid joke that is not funny to you &#8212; perhaps you are offended or puzzled by why I would put up such a terrible joke &#8211; why not laugh at the fact I think the joke is funny?<\/p>\n<p>Laugh at me. Laugh at anything. Pretend to laugh. The reason you laugh does not matter. You do not even have to think the joke is funny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laugh and you will feel better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert<br \/>\nParkinsons Recovery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Parkinsons Recovery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with Parkinson&#8217;s have lost their sense of humor. This is no longer true for Parkinson&#8217;s Recovery members! Laughter creates more dopamine than taking medications, drugs, herbs or supplements. OK. I admit it. I do not have a shred of evidence to prove this assertion, other than &#8230; The thousands of people with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/how-to-boost-dopamine-naturally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Boost Dopamine Naturally&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}