Thank you for joining us for episode 532 of Live Happy Now.

Many people today feel unfocused or overwhelmed, and today's guest is here to explain why it's not just a challenge for our heads, but it could be harming our hearts.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Dr. Alan Rosansky,

a distinguished professor of medicine at the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,

and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Mount Sinai, St. Luke.

Dr. Rosenthal has dedicated his career to exploring the connection between our mindset

and our physical health.

And his comprehensive health model, the six domains of health, reveals how the quality of our thoughts directly affects the quality of our physical health, especially heart health.

He's here to break it all down for us, so let's have a listen.

Dr. Rosansky, thank you so much for joining us on the show this week.

It's a real pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.

You are doing some amazing work, and I'm very excited to talk to you because we talk in the show

a lot about how our thoughts and our emotions affect our health, but we rarely get this specific.

And so as a cardiologist, you have incredible insight into how things are

specifically affecting our heart health, but you are also an expert in health psychology. So let's

start with a big picture. What do you see is the biggest misconception we have as a society

right now about our health? How we define health. I've been fascinated by

the question for a long time. And I'll ask my colleagues and other people, and either they'll

grin or they'll give me an answer in terms, well, health is, and I'll give me a few things.

And it's always about, it's more than just the absence of disease. The health care system is geared toward

helping people in a curative fashion. That's our emergency setting. Now we talk about, you know,

preventive things, but prevention is about preventing disease. It's not about necessarily

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