No, Doc Childre is not a physician, and Doc is his actual name, given to him by his father. Although he is not a physician, he has taught many cardiologists about heart health. When founding HeartMath, his goal was to research heart intelligence and develop a simple, step-by-step system to improve it. In addition, he wanted to create scientifically validated tools that anyone could use to measure it.
His years of research have yielded numerous important, new insights. Not only does it appear that the brain drives the heart, but vice versa. The researchers at HeartMath Institute discovered that the heart has a network of 40,000 neurons comparable to those in the brain. The heart has a brain that “thinks” autonomously and sends signals to the brain.
Doc Childre assembled a team of world-class researchers, physicians, and health experts to research and validate the HeartMath System.