This is a YouTube video titled "Ancient Wisdom Of Chinese Medicine" containing a discussion from February 6, 2021, about the personalized approach of ancient Chinese medicine, focusing on the connection between emotions and organ health. The excerpt features Dr. Mark explaining the five elements theory and its relation to emotions and disease, followed by a brief response from Ask AI Mark, indicating a conversational exchange.
One of the things I do love, Dr. Mark, about ancient Chinese medicine is it was really the first form that I've seen documented of personalized medicine. It's kind of like, you know, it's kind of almost started off. It also includes your personality profile. So if anybody's ever done like an Enneagram test or Myers-Briggs or DISC profile, sometimes when you read those, you're like, wow, that's, you know, almost every time you're like, wow, that is really straight on. That's my personality. Well, they did that in Chinese medicine. It's called the five elements. And so they really know how Hey, here's your personality. But they said based on your emotions, I think this is really incredible based on your emotions, that tends to be the biggest driver of what causes disease in which organ system. Because why is it today, most people would say genetics, like why does one person get diabetes, but another person could be eating almost the same diet, but that person ends up with more a heart disease and high blood pressure and cholesterol, another person thyroid issues and another person, what they say is different emotions affect different organs. So for instance, and we know this is true, the emotion of fear, if you're fearful, maybe fear of failure, fear of disappointing loved ones, that actually causes adrenal issues. Or if a child gets really scared at night, nightmares cause fear, that actually affect the kidneys and they can wet the bed. The emotion of worry specifically affects the upper digestive system, the pancreas and stomach. People say, oh, my stomach feels like it's tied knots if they worry a lot. the emotion of grief most affects the lungs and colon, which is your immune system. So, or unforgiveness, something that's happened in the past, a hurt of trauma, you haven't been able to let it go. That's completely affecting the immune system can trigger things like autoimmune like issues and that sort of thing. And the thing about heart anxiety, that's related to your heart, your blood pressure raises. So they would actually say in Chinese medicine, food is important, but more than 50% of health conditions today are experiencing negative emotions. So they always say, hey, you've got to address that negative emotion to completely heal.
