访谈录 Interview 2007-06-02&06-04, 不要事事放在心上

From our Health Desk this morning, some bitter news, turns out people who feel that they have been treated unfairly really do take it to heart. According to a British study, they are more likely, significantly to have heart problems than those people who believe life is basically fair. With me now, to break it down Hopkin’s Medical Contributor, Doctor Manny Alvarez.
Doctor Manny, thanks for being with us. So people who feel they have always-me attitude like, life is unfair, I just have bad luck. Now on top of it all, not only do they believe that, they are gonna die young?

Well, it well, it’s not that they believe. These are people actually that have been exposed to discrimination, abuse, verbal abuse. I mean words do make a difference. And I think that this study points these out. These were, these were, you know, this is a British study, large study, looked at it over a long period of time. Most of these people were, er, you know, workers for the state or in Britain. Ah, so it tells you that working conditions, discrimination, the way that we interact, mental health and heart disease. This is a study that shows the connectivity. Stress, we know, we keep talking about stress.

But it’s not that you have to actually be wronged, it’s that you have to feel like you’ve been wronged.

Yeah, but at the end of the day, if you, you know, if you're exposed to verbal abuse 247 or…..

Well, but, but what I am saying is even people who convince themselves that that’s the problem.

Well not, I don’t think, I don’t think, well…..

According to the study.

I don’t think it went into detail really in picking those people out per se. This was a large group of people. They did surveys and most people answered the question: Do you feel that you are unfairly treated, yes or no. And when you look to moderate to severe cases of people, it felt that overtime 1 they were unfairly treated. They had high significant incidence of a heart disease like 26% to 36%.

Right! By the, by the way, that was just random 2 people arguing on our screen.
Yeah, Well, the world needs love, that’s what we need.

Let me ask you this. They say that when you feel this way and you feel like you’ve been picked on and so on. It leads you to smoke more, to drink alcohol more to overeat?

Absolutely, your whole behavior. More depression, bad eating, stress make you eat more, cortisone levels go up. (Sounds like a self-fulfilling happening) I mean, that’s a whole fulfilling process, right, exactly, and .....

So what should people do if they feel like this?

Oh, God. You know, again, if they feel into, in the levels of discrimination or they get exposed to any kind of abuse, they have to, you know, nip that right away, because ultimately it could endanger your health. And try to, of course deal with mental health, ah, something that they need to change, whether they do yoga, any kind of, you know, exercise to get them out of the rut, but mental health does make a difference in your heart.

Very interesting, you know, they say that they did a study on monkeys and those who were stressed their whole lives long had more fatty buildup on the arteries 3 than those weren’t.

Absolutely.

So people distressed 4, yoga, therapy, love fast.

Love each other. Love each other.

Yes, Doctor Manny, thank you so much.

You got it.