You can forget about massages and taking hot tub baths. If you really want to reduce your stress level, you might consider playing more online poker.
According to a recent study conducted by Canadian scientists, playing a few hands of online poker a day can actually contribute towards dramatically reducing a person's overall stress that is caused due to either personal or work pressure.
If you have ever played online poker you must have felt the adrenaline effect when you flopped a monster hand and you must have gone on tilt more than once since all poker players go tilt. Therefore, the news might come as a bit of a shocker since poker is considered to be a very stressful game in itself.
You may wonder how a two or three hours session of online poker may have the same affect on your brain as sipping a glass of Scotch pool-side. It all comes to the stress hormone which is scientifically known as Cortisol and this was monitored closely by Canadian scientists. Cortisol is a hormone that sloshes around in your brain causing stress and anxiety. The less of it you have, the more relaxed you feel. One of the best known ways to reduce cortisol is by daily meditation.
The levels of cortisol were monitored at different levels of online players while they indulged in a few games of online poker. It was found that those players who played a few games of poker had their cortisol levels reduced by 17% as compared to what was recorded at the beginning of the game. Why can playing
online poker have such a significant effect on cortisol levels in the brain? Canadian scientists believe that the cortisol levels have been reduced because of the concentration required to play the game.
As a complex game, online poker definitely requires a huge amount of attention from thinking players. While the poker players put in all of their attention on the game they forget their daily worries and troubles.
Earlier scientists had also proved that poker increasingly improves a player's cognitive functions of the brain. There is a lot to think and play in the game of poker and this contributes to a better cognitive skill which is training for the brain.
As a conclusion, playing a few hours of online poker a day has great health benefits.
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