6.1.3.17. Adaptation - Identifying Response Type from Emotional Status

1. *Summary: Arzhan Surazakov and Garrett Murrin discuss the coMra Wellness Test, based on the research of Professor Garkavi, which uses a 10-question questionnaire to assess a person's emotional state and its correlation with their biochemistry. They highlight the high correlation rate of 96% between emotional responses and physiological states, and mention a journal called Cardiometry that contains more detailed information on this research. They emphasize the importance of this research for understanding the body's healing capabilities.*

Arzhan: So, Garrett, let's talk about the coMra Wellness Test.

Garrett: Okay, sounds good.

Arzhan: So, this test is based on the scientific research of Professor Garkavi and her team. And what they did, they started to not just take the blood test, but also start to take questionnaires from people. She started to see that these type of responses like stress activation or training would have a very specific emotional state attached to them. So she started to pay more attention to it until she identified that actually our emotional status is extremely tightly related to the biochemistry of the neuroendocrine system.

Garrett: Wow, that's fascinating.

Arzhan: So she developed a questionnaire of 10 questions: optimism, appetite, quality of sleep, quality of work, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, depression, overall level of activity. So you can say it's emotion, the mixture of overall status of being. And these are very simple questions where you would ask to rate your condition, let's say, how is your appetite today? And you would rate it zero if it's pretty normal for you, plus one, plus two, plus three would be more of that quality. And then minus one, minus two and minus three would be less of that quality.

Garrett: Okay, I understand.

Arzhan: So if you're looking at the stress picture in the middle, what you will see here is that on this polar graph, the person who is in stress response, his appetite is very, very low, which is not surprising. Quality of sleep is terrible. Quality of work is very low. The person may have high anxiety, very irritable, fatigue is very high. And so on. So, she identified that the pattern is very specific to someone in stress. Now if you look someone who is in activation type of response, the picture is almost mirror opposite here. Now the person eats very well, now he is very optimistic, no matter what happens, has a decent quality of sleep and so on. And someone who is in training response, you will see a graph on the right.

Garrett: That's very interesting.

Arzhan: So once you start to correlate between emotional status using only these 10 questions and looking at the biochemistry, she found out that pretty much 96% correspondence rate between them. So it's fascinating how our emotional state and how we feel optimistic or depressed, we have good appetite or are irritable, how these easy to answer questions directly relate to how your body can fight off infection or how your body can heal the wound in due to the kind of conditions.

Garrett: That's incredible.

Arzhan: Now I gave you only three examples. The whole procedure of testing is not as simple as that. I'm just showing three very clear cut examples. But what I did, I found a journal, a whole issue of a journal called Cardiometry. It's a Russian journal, but they published in English as well. So I found the whole issue, so I think about a dozen of articles on Garkavi's research and it's complete all in English. So when you go to this week's assignment, you will see a link to the PDF and you can read on this in much more details. So I'm just giving you now the headlines about this first research. So when I saw this graph and I see the 96% correlation rate, it's just something completely fascinating. It blew my mind. And I thought, wow, this is something really important to share with