Since we've spoken so much about the heart, the physical heart, the emotional heart and the

spiritual heart, I think it's important to understand that they're all actually different aspects

of the same heart.

It's also important to recognize that the heart disease still, cardiovascular disease still is the

number one cause of death across the world.

Today I want to emphasize a little bit about the connection between the

microbiome and heart health. So since I said I would talk about the microbiome, let's talk about it in relationship to heart disease for the moment.

The microbiome is about 2 million to 20 million microbial genes,

bacterial genes that live in your gut,

live in all the openings of your body.

Microbiome also lives in your skin, in the surface of your skin.

And as I said, this contributes 2 million to 20 million extra genes to your genetic activity.

Think of any experience, sleep, emotions, personal relationships, environment, food, any experience,

whether it's an experience of the so-called outer world through sound, touch, sight, taste, and

smell and its interpretation, or it's an experience of what we call the inner world, thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires,

imagination, insight, intuition, creativity, vision, The whole gamut of experience influences

epigenetic activity which in turn regulates genetic activity, both of the microbiome and also of the human genome.

Now it's very interesting that the micro biome is influenced by the activity of both the sympathetic nervous system which causes increased hormone activity of stress hormones, adrenaline, cortisol, nor epinephrine, etc.

But it's also influenced by the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system,

particularly the vag Vegas nerve.

I've talked about the Vegas nerve in the past.

The Vegas nerve influences the microbiome,

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