When it comes to healthcare, there is the mainstream AMA set of standard practices which is mostly based on empirical evidence and facts. And there’s all the rest of healthcare based on intangibles including traditional and new age healing practices, supplements etc. Here, a top neuroscientist discusses how both parts of healthcare interact.
This is PART ONE a multi-file set of derivatives of the below YouTube.
Neuroscientist David Linden sheds light on the biology behind phenomena that medicine has long struggled to explain, from voodoo death and broken heart syndrome to the placebo effect, and why grief shows up in autopsy results.
0:00 Chapter 1: The connection between mind and body
6:45 Chapter 2: Hacking the hunger system with GLP1
12:42 GLP-1 and the new era of appetite control
20:03 Modern food engineering vs. ancient biology
21:43 Chapter 3: Voodoo death, broken heart syndrome, and placebos
22:14 Voodoo Death & Misdiagnosis
27:00 Broken hearts, placebos, and the power of expectation
31:08 The Placebo Effect
37:09 From mind-body science to medicine
40:32 Chapter 4: How our brains fight cancer
42:00 Cancer, the Nervous system, and ‘The Way of the Nerd’
58:35 Chapter 5: How a neuroscientist prepares for death