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Hey everyone, welcome back. This is Dr. Michael Russo. I am a practicing clinician, a clinical researcher,

and an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport. And today, let's discuss how a aspect or a center in your brain, known as the amygdala,

located in the medial temporal lobe, may hold a key to reducing fear, anxiousness, and also

calming down your immune system, and thus reducing reactivity to food supplements

and the environment and finally and most compellingly may help to reduce what's known as all

cause mortality. There's a few studies here I'd like to weave together for you to help you better understand

a natural way in which you can favorably impact the amygdala and all the downstream effects,

which include your immune system. The first study that really kicks us off appeared in

molecular psychiatry in 2022.

And they wanted to study how nature impacts amygdala activity.

The design of this study was phenomenal.

And sorry if I am overly excited, but it really was quite elegant.

They started off by having

participants fill out a questionnaire. How are you feeling? Then they put them in an fMRI, a functional

magnetic resonance imaging study, and they had them look at faces making theling expressions and also do math equations, things to make people afraid.

And many people are afraid of challenging math questions or at least find them sort of stressful.

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