How One Simple Behavior Lowers Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, and Inflammation

And I found that patients who came into the hospital having open heart surgery were leaving the open heart unit earlier when they had a whole bunch of relatives coming in there.

And all of them were all over them, touching them, kissing them, hugging them and all that.

I'm like And the guy got out of the hospital earlier than those who had only one visitor.

Okay? And I also noticed that when patients come into my office and I see a couple that's constantly holding hands and I'm like, holding hands all the time.

But then whatever I do for them, they get better.

Faster than those who don't.

I also noticed that people who have different ranks of work, whether they work at a high level, whether they have more control over decision making, et cetera, et cetera, they tend to also do better than those who are given the same care, but they're at lower ranks and they have no control over their life.

So all this started making me think about behavioral things that actually are translate into your biochemistry and become anti-inflammatory.

And then I came across this one, which is very dangerous.

And this is the ones that has to do with the C fibers.

So now pay attention here.

We found out that if you touch my shoulder over here, my brain will register touch.

Somebody touched me here.

But what we found out, and neuroscience has proven this now, that there are certain fibers here that are called the C tactile fibers.

The C tactile fibers are in all of us.

All of you have it.

Some of you may deny it, but you got it.

These C fibers go from the mid arm over the shoulder, over the front, down to about the waistline, up to your neck over here, and all down your back all the way down to here.

That's it.

Now these C fibers, what do they do? They register touch, but not like you touched me.

You don't feel that.

And this happened when a lady lost her, she had a stroke and she couldn't feel anything.

And yet, when you touched her in those areas, she would register saying, that felt really nice.

I felt really safe.

I felt very content.