Dr Jenna Macciochi

And that this has a bigger health benefits because it's very anti-inflammatory.

It's

calming, it's giving you a sense of safety because ultimately humans evolved in communities.

You know, we need each other.

I don't go and grow all my own food myself.

I might do something in the garden, but ultimately I have to rely on many, many other people in the food chain to be able to eat.

There's always been this aspect of our survival that relies on other people.

And so we need community.

And there is, again, that neurochemical imprint of

of being around people and that again, your immune cells have receptors for those chemicals on the surface too.

So you're feeling it, you're feeling the warmth of chatting to your neighbor as you leave for work.

You feel like, oh, there's someone there in my community, but then your body's also experiencing this sort of sense of safety, which again is really good for your nervous system and by proxy, the immune system.

I also think there's something in the heart rate, you know, because we have that kind of electromagnetic field that our heart is emitting and it's much stronger than any other part of our bodies.

You can also detect the brain, but imagine the ECG on like a medical TV show people might have seen.

You can detect that outside of the body.

I can't remember exactly how far it emanates.

But I always think about it in terms of my kids.

Like if one of them is out playing and they fall over, they start crying, you know, that real kind of hyperventilating crying, really upset.

And you bring them into your chest and you're calm because you know everything's fine.

And your heart has this more powerful electromagnetic field than their little heart does.