Emily Dickinson`s 632 poem may, in the language of adipobiology, be brie!y paraphrased as BMI (brain mass index) is wider than BMI (body mass index).
We argue strongly for the creation of a bridge between the virtues of intellect (brain) and those of feeling (heart/ soul), desig- nating such a bridge brain-and-heart friendship (BHF). Even as a brain-and-heart family. Onward, the larger the BHF, the better for the society including scienti"c community.
Thus BHF might indeed be considered The Fifth Element, the quintessence (Latin quinta - "ve, and essentia - the true nature of being) (1). The dynamic and plasticity of The Elements have been expressed by ancient Greek philosophers in the following aphorism: Nothing new comes or can come into being: the only change that can occur is a change in the juxtaposition of element with element.
Imaging humans as elements, we should work together on Human Phiolome (Friendome) Project (2). Herein illustrated by a collage called Friendorama, a masterpiece of Dr Vesselka Nikolova, a cardiologist in Varna, Bulgaria and Göttingen, Germany.
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