Shed tears to stay healthy

Are you Alexithymic or Anhedonic? you may profit from therapeutic interventions to stimulate your lacrimal apparatus.In other words,if you can't feel emotions or unable to derive pleasure from good experiences,make yourself weep with medical help,scientists across the world advise.And if you don't suffer from either symptom,carry on weeping still,for good health,they suggest. Why we cry and what happens when we do it still mystery but that hasn't stopped researchers from studying its effects.Their latest research suggests that crying is not only a stress-buster,but is good at healing too. Emotional tears A clue to the purpose of crying perhaps lies in the experimental finding that emotional tears contain different compounds from regular eye watering,such as that triggered by chopping onions.Tears associated with emotion have higher levels of some proteins and of manganese and potassium, and hormones,including prolactin ,then mere eye watering .Manganese is an essential nutrient.Too little of it can lead to slowed blood clotting,skin problems and lowered cholesterol levels.Potassium is involved in nerve working ,muscle control and blood pressure.Prolactin is a hormone involved in stress and plays a role in the immune system.William Frey,professor of pharmaceutics at the university of Minnesota,is quoted by the Independent as saying "Because unalleviated stress can increase our risk for heart attack and damage certain areas of our brain,the human ability to cry has survival value".