#7 – A Primer on Mind-Body Medicine

Mind-Body Medicine was until recently, dismissed by modern medicine. The idea that the mind could influence the body was paradoxically deemed just not true--- it's no surprise the current data is saying otherwise. It is know widely accepted that increased stress experienced in the mind lowers the immune system and influences a wide variety of disease, most notably cardiac and metabolic.

In this episode we break down the autonomic nervous system (to round out the neurological side of the stress response we started in our adaptogenic episode when we talked about the endocrine side of the stress response).

This inflammation and stress response is also vital to understanding why COVID was so detrimental, and we will talk all about why.

We will discuss a range of mind-body therapies that have been proven to be beneficial in the literature, including breath work, mindfulness and medical hypnosis. We will also discuss some of the newer literature looking at hypnosis as a replacement for anesthetic drugs during surgery.

Inevitably we will hop down a few rabbit holes talking about out of body experiences, Jung's archetypes and his idea of the collective unconscious... and how that might relate to why occult practices like Tarot  and other religious texts like the Bible actually share a scary amount of similarities.

Mentions:
- Book: 'Woke. An Anesthesiologists  View.' by Madhava Setty MD
- App: Waking Up with Sam Harris