How Your Thoughts Affect Your Health

Strong body, strong mind, is a common saying, but the reverse can be true too. How you think can affect your physical health because each and every thought you have is the result of a chemical reaction. In this episode, we discuss how certain thoughts affect performance and health, what happens in your body to make this happen and how to shift to a more positive way of thinking.   Some references cited in the podcast: Association of Optimism with Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752100 Become More Optimistic by Imagining a Best Possible Self https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005791611000358?via%3Dihub Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33708-0