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Link: "Throughout emotional misery, the nerves that management the heartbeat can set off a maladaptive “struggle or flight” response that causes blood vessels to constrict, the guts to gallop and blood stress to rise, leading to harm to the physique.

In different phrases, it’s more and more clear that our hearts are delicate to our emotional system — to the metaphorical coronary heart, if you’ll. Docs like myself are educated to consider the guts as a machine that we will manipulate with the instruments of contemporary medication. These manipulations, nonetheless, have to be accompanied by higher consideration to the emotional life that the guts, for thus a few years, was believed to include."

[bylifetoday.com]