Something You Should Know about Mind Body Healing

December 26, 2011

Interview with Alex S. Key, author of the book The Third Basic Instinct: How Religion Doesn't Get You (Revised Edition)

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Mike Carruthers:
Every creature on the earth has two basic instincts, survival and reproduction and what makes humans different from other creatures is our third basic instinct.

Alex S. Key:
And I propose that the third basic instinct is innate human curiosity - our desire to stimulate our minds, our desire to learn, the instinct to learn.
 

December 16, 2011

Interview with Mel Pohl, author of the book A Day without Pain

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Mike Carruthers:
A third of the population suffers from chronic pain and we're all bothered by pain at some point. Here's something interesting...

Mel Pohl, M.D.:
Probably twenty percent of chronic pain is related to the injury and the tissue irritation and about eighty percent is related to our attitudes about the pain.
 

October 11, 2011

Interview with Alex Doman, co-author of the book Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives

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Mike Carruthers:
Music is good for your health in fact it may be essential.

Alex Doman:
For example with stress levels we know that cortisol is a marker of stress and there are numerous studies to show that using the right kind of relaxing music reduces stress levels and stress is one of the leading causes of ill health in America.
 

August 18, 2011

Interview with Dr. Richard Kradin, author of the book The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing

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Mike Carruthers:
What you think of a medication you are taking can actually impact how well that medication works.

Richard Kradin, M.D.:
Placebo researchers have looked at these things - that the colors of pills, the size of pills, the root of administration of medications - all of these things have an effect on efficacy.