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Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning | Volume 3
April 08-09, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
Health Care and Neuroscience
International Conference on
Happy booster-how positive attitude promotes health, reduces stress, enhances
performance, accelerates success, and boosts happiness
Cheryl Wang
Fuzhou University, China
W atching my obese and diabetic patients
struggling with body weight and blood sugar
control, I saw how important it is to encourage
them to practice positive attitude in their daily lives.
The biggest challenge for most obese and diabetic
patients is not thebodyweight or blood sugar control,
but the rebound afterwards. With comprehensive
interventions, more and more obese patients are
able to lose weight. Yet, it takes much more effort to
maintain the desired body weight afterwards. This
makes them more frustrated and stressed out. Their
stress hormone cortisol goes up. Excessive cortisol
increases fat production and thus further weight
gain, which, in turn, becomes a vicious cycle. I keep
encouraging my patients using positive attitude to
adjust their mood, boost their immunity, regain
their strength to fight back. Those well-compliant
ones reached a better long-term effect. Simply, with
positive attitude, we secret more “happy hormones”
and less stress hormone, thus lose more weight
and be able to maintain the desired body weight
afterwards.
My practice is not alone. Addiction becomes a huge
burden of our society and it is extremely worrisome
in the adolescents. Over 20 million Americans,
almost 10 percent of the population are alcohol or
illicit drugs abuse or dependent, which is responsible
for over 100, 000 deaths every year, and an overall
annual cost over 400 billion dollars in the United
States. Physician and scientists at the Harvard
Mahoney Neuroscience Institute did a study in
adolescents with addiction. It suggested that positive
attitude and laughter enhances immunity and
increase resistance to addition. Simply, addiction is a
hunger for pleasure. It is a brain problem involving
changes of the mesolimbic dopamine system, which
activated pleasure and reward circuits. These circuits
are located at the nucleus accumbens and amygdala.
Their changes cause psychological, behavioral and
social problems. This can be viewed and tracked with
PET scan. The PET scan studies conducted at Osaka
University suggested that positive expression such
as laughter and smile is associated with improved
cognitive function. Laughter makes people feel good,
brings pleasure and thus may diminish the need and
crave for substance. Study from CDC suggested that
optimism has positive impact on personal recovery
and mental health after disaster. Furthermore,
laughter enhances immunity, stimulates circulation,
augments cardiovascular and pulmonary function,
improves depression, moderates anxiety, alleviates
pain and helps smoking cessation. This is now called
positive psychotherapy (PTT).
Speaker Biography
Cheryl Wang earned her MD at Binzhou Medical College, MSc.,
Endocrinology and metabolism, internal medicine in Shanghai
Second Medical University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University), PhD
in Science, Endocrinology and metabolism, internal medicine at PLA
medical college. She did internal medicine residency and trained as
an Endocrinologist in Donying People’s Hospital, China, did surgery
residency at Mount Sinai and Rutgers in the United States. She was
awarded numerous times for variety of accomplishment, three KL2s
from NIH, the first place award at UTHSCSA research day, Federation
Medical Golden Prize scholarship, scholarship for many times, excellent
student almost every academic year, excellent student officer awards,
excellent female student nominee, excellent graduation award, and
many awards for mathematics, speech, and variety of contests.
Above all, she had accomplished her masterpiece, her hard-won
wisdom, “happy booster-how positive attitude promotes health,
reduces stress, enhances performance, accelerates success and boosts
happiness”, the best of America and Chinese best, the most positive
energy ever, and a Nobel Prize “Winner-to-be”.
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