Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you look into the history of why James pennebaker and colleagues started exploring this particular pattern of journaling it actually relates to his own personal experience and I don't want to spend too much time on this but it's worth mentioning that pener has actually spoken about and written about in by the way an excellent book that I've linked to in the show note captions where he talks about his experience in suffering pretty severely from asthma as a child and that that asthma was seasonal and yet at some point later in his life because he had certain relatives visiting him in his new home location that his asthma would come and go as a consequence of interacting with certain members of his family independent of season and basically what he deduced from his own personal experience is that there must be some link between our emotions either negative or positive and our immune system or other physical ailments or thriving in the physical sense