Does Your Immune System Listen To Your Thoughts?

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Emerging research is giving us a more comprehensive picture than ever before about the way our mind can impact our health. While science continues to reveal the dramatic impacts of stress on the immune system, more and more clinical research is also emerging around topics such as the immunology of joy and the immunology of gratitude. In this mini-episode, Dr. Mark Hyman speaks to Dr. Leonard Calabrese, an expert in immunology and rheumatology, about how the right practices to support these areas of life actually improve the immune system.

Dr. Leonard Calabrese is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Vice Chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. He is the director of the RJ Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic and holds joint appointments in the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Wellness Institute. Dr. Calabrese has made significant contributions to science in the fields of chronic viral infections and autoimmunity and vascular inflammatory diseases of the brain. He has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the advancements of immunology and wellness.

You can find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Calabrese here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrCalabrese

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy.
0:03.0	I'm just sort of marveling here because what you're talking about is a total paradigm shift
0:08.5	in how we think about medicine. It's not only about treating the disease, it's about the science
0:13.3	of creating health, and it's a very big paradigm shift. Hi, I'm Kay Aparoet, one of the producers
0:18.5	of the Doctors Pharmacy podcast. Chronic stress has become an epidemic in our society where faster
0:23.7	is considered better and packing more obligations into your ever-expanding schedule earns you a badge
0:29.2	and while we know that chronic stress wreaks havoc on your physical and emotional well-being,
0:33.4	emotions are often dismissed during the conversation around stress. In a recent interview,
0:38.2	immunologist Dr. Leonard Calabrese shared fascinating clinical results with Dr. Hyman about how
0:43.5	things like joy and gratitude have been found to be beneficial to health outcomes. Let's listen in.
0:49.0	It's well accepted that stress is bad for your immune system. Classic, chronic stress. A cute stress
0:57.0	run from the Sabre-tooth Tiger. That's really good. Chronic stress of my job, my life, the
1:02.9	environment, politics, and the world is bad. We are now starting to appreciate that the opposite of
1:11.7	that, the immunology of joy can be immunologically potentiating. And you mentioned a very nice example.
1:20.4	I call this the immunology of gratitude. Gratitude has wide-ranging biological effects. There's a
1:27.5	recent study done at UC San Diego that showed that patients with asymptomatic echocardiographically
1:36.5	documented congestive heart failure with six weeks of gratitude journaling could improve ventricular
1:45.0	function. Your heart pumps better and faster if you're grateful. It's such a great phase. The
1:50.4	immunology of joy. Some people, Cohen from Carnegie Mellon, has done such beautiful work looking
2:01.7	at resistance to respiratory viruses and the effects of hugs. And did this elegantly controlled
2:11.0	study where they measured social interactions, the amount of touching that goes on in a person's
2:17.3	life and then actually inoculated all the people in the study with a cold virus and then measured
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