Hey folks, this is Ben Greenfield, and the field of neuroacoustics is perhaps something

that you're not familiar with or you haven't heard of before, but the fact is that sound

is all around us, and it affects our health the way we think, our physiology, and many

other things that we're going to talk about today with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

Dr. Thompson has been in the healing field of medicine since 1980. He has done lots of research

and work in the use of sound frequency to do everything from spinal and cranial adjustments to normalizing

organ function to balancing the meridians in your body, and he really is the expert when it comes

to this stuff. He has designed methods to actually use sound pulses to do things like

train your brain and optimize your mind body connection. So sound can be used for everything

from stress reduction to enhancing sleep, to relaxing, to peak performance, and we'll be exploring

all of that today with Dr. Thompson. So Dr. Thompson, thank you for coming on the call.

Thanks for having me, Ben. So before we jump into kind of how sounds and frequencies affect

human physiology, can you tell me a little bit more about yourself and what exactly it is that you do?

Well, my work researching sound has gone through a lot of different evolutions, but

presently, the work that I'm doing is three kind of parallel avenues of the use of sound. One is

this idea of physical resonance that we can resonate different parts of your body with

different specific sound frequencies. It's the principle of sympathetic resonance. Why does

the wine glass vibrate when you sing the right note? Actually, there's a whole

science behind that phenomenon. It's called the science of coupled oscillators. When one thing

oscillates or vibrates, it causes any other material that has a fundamental resonance that's

an octave of that, or the same frequency, or a harmonic of that. We'll also vibrate. In other

words, if I got this wine glass, I want to sing a certain note and make it vibrate.

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