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Whether it's pop, rock, hip-hop, or jazz, we all love music, and it can either calm us down or make us feel happy. Overall, it's known to make our feelings and moods better. Besides the good things it does for our minds, music also really helps with major health issues like diabetes. In fact, music therapy may help bring down your blood sugar if you have diabetes. But how does listening to certain songs change our body's health? Music can really change how our body's hormone system works. When we listen to music, especially songs we enjoy, it can make our brain create different hormones. For instance, dopamine, a substance linked to happiness and rewards, is let out, which can improve our mood and lower stress. Also, music can lower the stress hormone, which is good for how we feel in general.

Music can also get the body to make endorphins, which work like natural painkillers and mood enhancers. Studies show that music therapy can help lower blood pressure, improve how the heart rate changes, and make emotional health better overall. It's also being studied as a way to help with different mental health problems, care for people with cancer, and deal with pain. Scientists have made a fake 'special cell' that lets out insulin when it hears certain sound waves (like 50 Hz) and loudness. They tested this cell in the stomachs of some animals to see how music affects the release of insulin. Some rock songs caused about 70 percent of the insulin to be released within five minutes, reaching the full amount within 15 minutes in mice, which is similar to how healthy people naturally react to glucose.

Even though music therapy might show some good effects on insulin levels, there are problems with using these results on a larger group of people right now. Still, there's hope that with more studies, music therapy could be very important in controlling diabetes.