I was blown away when really you're working, watching videos that you produced about.

So many things. One of the real startling things is the power of touch. I read that if

you pat a kid on the back in the classroom, that child is three to five times more likely

to try hard problems on the blackboard. That touch can make you live longer and be less

stressed just someone touching you. Is that true?

Yeah. I mean, it's touch in a lot of mammalian species, including humans, is just connection.

It's identity. It's, I'm with you. You think early in life, we are constantly being held

and in skin-to-skin contact with our caregivers. It's foundational. It's where my sense of me

and you connection emerges. The physiology of touch is mind-blowing. Our hands are incredible.

They're spectacular. Evolutionary adaptations. It can do all kinds of things, including touch.

Our skin, eight pounds, billions of cells. Our immune system is in the skin. It registers

touch in many different ways from the sexual to the friendly to the cooperative. It goes

up into the brain and says, man, you're being touched in this way. That has direct effects

on your immune system, in your vagus nerve, in your heart rate, and the health of your body.

Early discoveries, you have premature babies. They're going to die. They used to just put

them in these little units that warm them and had them be comfortable and fed. They would die.

Then they figured out you got to hold the premature baby. They needed skin-to-skin contact

with food. They lived. They gained 47% weight gain. Then, they're just studies time and time again.

Nice hug, lower cortisol, nice embrace with somebody, elevated vagal tone. The studies that

you refer to, padding kids on the back, they do better in school. It's so interesting, parts of

English culture, Victorian culture, Western European culture. They came up with the idea.

Touches sexual, you got to get it. It is. Only certain kinds of touch are sexual. There's a lot

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