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"It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body"

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You can hear the careful two-step in Klein's wording: a nod to scientific humility followed by a salesman’s flourish. “It is still not clear” signals restraint, a concession to mechanism and causality. Then he pivots to the bigger, stickier claim: laughter is “beneficial for every system in the body.” That leap is the point. Klein isn’t trying to litigate biochemistry; he’s trying to win permission for joy to count as self-care.

As a businessman and a well-known evangelist of humor, Klein’s context matters. He’s operating in the late-20th-century boom of wellness culture, when stress became a mainstream villain and “mind-body” language moved from the fringes into offices, hospitals, and corporate trainings. The quote reads like a bridge between two audiences: the evidence-hungry skeptic and the exhausted worker who wants a simple, non-pharmaceutical intervention that doesn’t feel like another chore.

The subtext is almost strategic: if the lab can’t fully explain laughter’s cardiac effects, that uncertainty shouldn’t stop you from adopting it. Klein reframes the lack of clarity not as a red flag, but as a temporary technicality. Notice how “other studies” is left vague; it’s an appeal to a broader scientific chorus without naming the instruments. The rhetoric sells a lifestyle upgrade: laughter as low-cost, low-risk “medicine,” with the fine print softened into optimism. In a culture primed for hacks and holistic fixes, that’s a very effective pitch.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Klein, Allen. (2026, January 17). It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-still-not-clear-from-this-study-how-62263/

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Klein, Allen. "It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-still-not-clear-from-this-study-how-62263/.

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"It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-still-not-clear-from-this-study-how-62263/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 - July 4, 2009) was a Businessman from USA.

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