Music and Its Effects on the Human Body: Essay

 MUSIC AS AN ANCIENT MEDICINE

Do you remember when you first began listening to music? It’s something that almost feels natural since we have been singing and hearing those familiar little tunes over the course of the years, since we were little toddlers to learn the alphabet until when we become older when we dance at parties and share memories. Which has got me wondering, don’t you think music may affect us in some way? 

It is like when that one song plays, you get goosebumps and then your mind is flooded with memories that make you feel so nostalgic, like when that family member was alive, or when you were friends with that girl. Maybe it is something that goes beyond our minds reach, how does music actually affect our physical beings?

According to PubMed in 2017, research has shown music may influence central physiological features,  like blood pressure, calming you down or getting your mood up. Also our temperature might be affected by it, and may go as far as influencing immune or endocrine functions!

Well, if music is so good at all these things and apparently is a sacred remedy, why isn’t this information more well known? 

Apparently, there isn’t enough information about this, but it's not so certain yet which tunes or beats influence specific functions of our intricate bodies due to that same reason.

Our bodies are so complex and perfectly made that we can’t know for sure which brain receptors catch onto those diverse little drums yet, but through how technology is speeding things up, who knows? Maybe in some time music will help us battle more serious conditions than just the uses nowadays conferred to it, as music therapy applied for a great spectra of diseases, Alzheimer among them. 

By Juan Camilo Gutiérrez P., Step 10