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#307 BITESIZE | How Kindness Can Improve Your Happiness and Health | Dr David Hamilton

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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The Mother Teresa Effect Is Changing Things Biologically, Physiologically

That deep connection has tremendous physical effects in fact one of the side effects is suppose of that feeling connected or feeling good about it. It's not just in your head it's changing things biologically, physiologically. A study by Yale University got over a hundred people to watch a 50 minute video of mother Teresa on the streets of Calcutta demonstrating care and compassion to homeless people. At the end of the study their levels of a little immune antibody in saliva called SIGA went up by about 50% for no reason other than watching the video.

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