When you turn on the stress response, and you can't turn it off Now you're headed for a disease because no organism in nature can live an emergency mode for that extended period of time It's a scientific fact that the hormones of stress down regulate genes and create disease long term affects Human beings because of the size of the neocortex we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone Which I think about our problems and turn on those chemicals That means then our thoughts Could make us sick So if it's possible that our thoughts could make us sick. Is it possible that our thoughts could make us? Well, the answer is absolutely