The mysterious phenomena the medical community calls “spontaneous remission” has long puzzled scientists and doctors because of the very inexplicable nature of how patients with “incurable” diseases wind up cured. A similarly bewildering phenomena, the placebo...
I graduated from medical school in 1995, but it wasn’t until 2009, two years after I had quit my job as an OB/GYN and left the hospital to study mind-body medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, the placebo effect, shamanism, energy healing, and cutting edge trauma...
As I referred to in my blog about Sacred Medicine in Thailand, the practice of making offerings as part of any healing journey seems to be a large part of every spiritual tradition. In Thailand, offerings come in two forms. At 6 a.m. every morning, “householders”...
Some of you are familiar with the public health issue I’ve been wrestling with. In my fourth TEDx talk I spoke about the #1 Public Health Issue Doctors Aren’t Talking About. Addressing loneliness from a public health perspective, I have a vision of healing circles...
Yesterday, I was talking to a mentoring client on the telephone from my bedroom when I heard a blood-curdling scream out my window. Before I even knew what was happening, I told my client there was an emergency and I needed to hang up the phone and call 911....
Happy New Year, Dear Ones! Since Mind Over Medicine launched in May of this year, the number of people registered for this mailing list has jumped from 20,000 to 50,000+, and many of you just signed up recently as a result of my National Public Television special...
I’m not a whole lot of fun when it comes to New Year’s. I don’t like going to big parties. I don’t really even like staying up late or drinking too much champagne as the new year rolls in. I tend to use New Year’s Eve as a time of introspection, quiet...
In this blog series, I’ve been exploring the relationship between fear, anxiety, and how it leads us to overmedicalize health care. In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed The Shocking Dangers of Medical Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment. In Part 2, I shared How...