The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the neurochemical, the anti-inflammatory and the neural circuit mechanisms that gratitude can invoke are equally on par with some of the effects of pharmacology, of things like high intensity interval training and exercise, and other things that we think of as kind of more potent forms of self intervention.
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So as you now know, there is a lot of science about how gratitude can positively impact neural circuits in the brain. Anti-inflammatory markers in the body, brain-heart breathing coordination, and on and on and on.