Dr. Alan Rozanski

You know, I may come up with ideas and anyone can come up with, you know, a formulation.

This is healthy or unhealthy, but I became fascinated.

But what does the body say is healthy or unhealthy?

Body actually testifies to what is good for it or what is not good for it.

In other words, those things which promote longevity, which decrease the risk of chronic disease, which protect your physiology, are healthy.

And those things which shorten lifespan and cause disease are unhealthy.

So no one will argue.

that smoking is unhealthy for you.

Shortens lifespan, causes cancer, heart disease, and so forth.

No one will argue today that exercise in general is healthy for you.

Same with a nutritious diet.

Same with getting healthy sleep.

That's in the physical domain.

So you say, well, what are these other domains?

What are those things that objectively promote longevity and better health?

Well, in the cognitive area, we have very strong data

that optimists live longer, they have less heart disease, and pessimists the opposite.

We have increasing data in terms of gratitude being the same.

So we have this cognitive area that is a true health domain.

In the emotional area, living with depression untreated is one of the most toxic things to your health.