The Music Effect The Body

It has been prove that music can be used to help the body in many ways. It can have a therapeutic effect against pain, modify blood pressure, treat manymental sicknesses, depreesion, Down Syndrome, insomnia, and many other problems in the human body.
Julious Potnay, a musicologist, discovered that, notonly can music change the metabolism, affect muscular energy, increase or decrease blood pressure, and influence digestion, but it can also make all of thiswork in a more efficient way, exceeding the effectivity of any other stimulant that can produce the same result in our body (David TAME. El poder ocultode la música, pag 138).
The UCLA School of Nursing and the Baptise Medical Center of Georgia in Atlanta realized a clinical research where they were wereable to observe and study premature babies and they concluded that the babies that were exposed to relaxing melodies increased in weight and were able tobreathe more efficiently.
Generally, music has many positive effects in managing pain and chronic pain, like post-operatory pain. Musical therapy is used inmany hospitals because it has been proved to reduce the need of medication during delivery and it's also used as a complement to anesthesia. There aremany theories that explain how music affects positively the person who's in pain. Some say that it serves as a distraction; it gives the patient a sense ofcontrol; music makes the body release endorphines that counteract pain; slow music helps people relax because it lowers respiration and the heartbeat.