Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial

entrepreneur, a father, a nutritional coach, but first and foremost I'm a student I

like learning and with this show I go out and find smart people interesting people

medical doctors researchers academics yoga teachers movement specialists

everything related to health and wellness and I pick people's brains and find their best information and I share it with you on the show

Selfishly so I can learn but selflessly so that hopefully it will improve your life.

On this week's show, we're talking about intimacy and brain mass and brain health,

the neuroprotective tendency of close physical relationships in some cases touch but also just deep connection with people.

This is all new information to me and it's really important if you think about health, you think about our three different bodies, it's really important to separate what we're really talking about.

You think about our chemical body, that's pretty much our hormones and all the wishwash of stuff sloshing around inside of us.

You think about our electrical body, it's your nervous system,

and then you think about your bacterial body,

the three pounds of stuff in your gut,

and all of the bacteria living throughout us.

In fact, there's more microbes than there are actual human cells in gross numbers in our body.

And so we have these three bodies, our chemical body, our electrical body, and our

bacterial body, and they're all at play. And some people get obsessed with one

thing. They're just obsessed with the microbiome and taking probiotics and

gut health and some people are just

obsessed with the nervous system a lot of people in my world in the yoga world are

just constantly doing nervous system training brain and train meditation guided

praniyama these kinds of things and then some people

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