Did You Know Humans Have a 6th Sense? And Why It Could Improve Overall Health

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Touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. Those are our 5 senses, however experts are beginning to outline a sixth and it could be one of the most important for human survival. It’s called interoception, and it actually keeps us alive by alerting us to our internal processes.

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00:00touch sight hearing smell and taste those are our five senses however experts are beginning to

00:09outline a sixth and it could be one of the most important for human survival it's called

00:14interoception and while it might sound like something ripped straight from a sci-fi movie

00:18it actually keeps us alive by alerting us to our internal processes the sense tells the body when

00:23you're hungry or thirsty but also if you're too hot or cold and can even help you sense your heart

00:28rate it's definitely a sense we take for granted as it indicates a lot of automatic processes but

00:32it also helps us make sure our bodies run properly researchers jennifer murphy and frey apprentice say

00:38the system is all about balance drinking when you're thirsty or moving into shade if you're

00:42too hot in the sun but it goes deeper and they say it has implications for our mental and emotional

00:47well-being as well previous studies have linked improved interoception with improved mental

00:52health but the why is still unclear perhaps surprisingly it has been found that men tend

00:56to use interoception from their heartbeat to better process emotions however other studies have

01:01indicated that women pay more attention to individual interoceptive signals than men in

01:05general this means that interoceptive signals could be paramount in helping treat mental health issues

01:10leaving only the questions of how we can utilize them and for whom might they be useful

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