00:03touch sight hearing smell and taste those are our five senses however experts are beginning
00:09to outline 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
00:33it 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
00:57to 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 general this
01:06means that interoceptive signals could be paramount in helping treat mental health issues leaving
01:10only the questions of how we can utilize them and for whom might they be useful
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