All this to say that many women cry more often than they exercise.
You may be (understandably) wondering, who cares?
What does crying have to do with exercise?
If only crying burned calories, right?
Well, the connection isn’t too far off.
Nick Knight, there’s even more than one way to cry there are three.
Your body can produce basal, reflex, and psychic tears.
Here’s what happens when you start sobbing and producing any of these three types of tears.
What about crying after being frightened or upset?
Oddly enough, we humans can cry for pretty much any reason.
Even weirder is that parts of our brains can’t even differentiatewhywe’re crying.
In an article forPsychology Today, Dr. Jordan Gaines Lewis explained what’s going on.
In our heads sits a small almond-sized region of the brain called the hypothalamus.
The amygdala continues to pass the buck to your nervous system.
Meanwhile, your hypothalamus the one responsible for all this mess doesn’t even get why you’re crying.
Your skin may get blotchy or you might even develop a headache.
Even if you’re not a particularly spry cryer, there’s still a lot going on internally.
In this sense, crying is a ‘workout’ for the body."
Sometimes you don’t even have to be sad to experience it.
If you’re nervous, you may also be met with the lump.
In speaking withShe Knows, she first explained that it isn’t actually a lump at all.
“In medical terminology, it is referred to as ‘globus sensation,'” Stagg said.
It just comes with the territory of being human.
Our noses love to help our eyes push out those tears, creating a lovely snot stream or two.
So, what’s up with that, anyway?
At least we don’t snot from our eyes, right?
“She believes in their transformative abilities so much that she actually encourages her patients to cry.
Orloff acknowledges the three types of tears and says each one plays its own role in healing.
However, she explained that “emotional tears have special health benefits,” including reducing stress hormones.
According to biochemist and “tear expert” Dr. William Frey, it could.
Other similar bodily processes, like exhaling and sweating, rid our bodies of toxic substances.
Dr. Orloff and Dr. Frey aren’t the only ones who support the healing benefits of tears.
A natural stress-reliever and pain-killer no prescription needed.
Doctors and scientists interviewed byTimesay all tears contain enzymes, lipids, metabolites, and electrolytes.
Yet, emotional tears contain more protein than any other kind of crying.
This makes our crying more noticeable to other people for better or for worse.
Dr. Rottenberg, on the other hand, feels we use it to manipulate others.
“It can neutralize anger very powerfully,” he explained.
With great power comes great responsibility, right?
But what happens if you run out?
Just cry into your hands.
Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but your tears may just be able to kill bacteria.
“Even anthrax can be killed offby this superhero-like protein.
Yes, our tears are probably cooler than we are.
After showing a group of people a sad movie, he and his colleagues assessed their moods.
And, even when it does, it’s not a quick trip to get there.
Vingerhoets even wrote that many of the relieving benefits that come after shedding tearsare myths.
Whereyou cry also makes a difference in how you’ll feel afterwards.
The immediate after-effects of crying may negatively affect your mood, as Vingerhoets’ experiment proved.
To cry or not to cry: that is the question and maybe only one you yourself can answer.
