Dr. Trisha Pasricha

And so the heart beats at this regular rhythm of 60 beats per minute or so.

Well, it turns out your stomach is actually has its own rhythm and it's contracting at a regular rate of about three beats per minute.

But what I found is that when you're telling a lie, that regular rhythm of three beats per minute, it goes into total chaos.

It doesn't contract anymore at three beats per minute.

It enters this chaotic rhythm called arrhythmia, where there's no discernible pattern.

And it turns out that that discovery where you could actually potentially use your stomach as a lie detector, it got an asteroid named after me.

But more importantly, it taught me something really profound about the gut and the brain, which is this.

The gut can respond to external information often so much quicker than your conscious brain can process.

And some people call that a gut feeling.

But here's what we get wrong about gut feelings.

We often assign gut feelings, we label them as being good or bad inherently.

And a gut feeling is neither good or bad.

It's a scientific phenomena.

It's a physiological signal.

And it's simply a message.

And that message is this.

the stakes of the situation are higher than you realize.

That's the message.

It's not good.

It's not bad.