Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Love is MEDICINE...

4 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "Love is MEDICINE..." created on March 4, 2024, featuring a monologue or talk by a single speaker discussing the scientific effects of love and social connections on gene expression and health, specifically through the lens of sociogenomics. The content explores how loving relationships can activate repair genes and reduce inflammation.

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Why is love such a strong healer? Love is medicine. It's the same reason that community is, the same reason belonging is, is because, you know, when we have a deep connection relation with someone, it literally changes our gene expression. So if you're in a loving connection with someone, yes, it's this whole scientific field of sociogenomics, right? How our social relationships affect our genes. And we know if you're in a conflictual relationship, you will turn on genes of inflammation which cause disease and aging. If you are in a loving, connected, heart-centered relationship, you are activating all the repair genes. You literally, through cuddling, can change your epigenome.