Christoffel Sneijders explains how the heart's 40,000 neurons generate an electromagnetic field a thousand times stronger than the brain's, detectable nine meters away. This field lets us sense others' heartbeats and shapes bonding, reward, and action through oxytocin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, improving teamwork and decisions.
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Andrea Moore came away with the heart brain. It only has 40,000 to 100,000 neurons or brain cells. It has an electromagnetic field. Boom boom boom boom. That boom boom can be measured and detected 9 meters outside your body. The electromagnetic field is more than 1,000 times more strong than all the electricity is produced in your head. So it can really overrun your whole system. You can feel the heartbeat of somebody else. And what does our heart do? Now just imagine that little Joe is in Australia and the little kangaroos, and they get born, climb out, and go into the womb of mama. Where? To survive. Now we as humans actually should do the same when we are born because we're totally helpless. We are social animals. Our heart is there for connecting, and your heart actually says, how should I act or be so that you like me? There's also 3 hormones: oxytocin, the love hormone; dopamine, again reward, so it learns; norepinephrine, so it can put you in action.