This is no more on the esoteric level of...thinking positive, being happy, and alternate healing methods.
It's science, proven fact kinds.
In 1974, Robert Ader, a psychologist, discovered that the immune system, like the brain, could learn. His results were a shock; the prevailing wisdom in medicine had been that only the brain and the central nervous system could respond to experience by changing how they behaved. Ader's findings showed myriad ways the central nervous system and the immune system communicate....biological pathways that make the mind, the emotions, and the body not separate, but intimately intertwined.
In 1974, Robert Ader, a psychologist, discovered that the immune system, like the brain, could learn. His results were a shock; the prevailing wisdom in medicine had been that only the brain and the central nervous system could respond to experience by changing how they behaved. Ader's findings showed myriad ways the central nervous system and the immune system communicate....biological pathways that make the mind, the emotions, and the body not separate, but intimately intertwined.
The discovery was serendipitous...... he was working on the immune system in rats. The field that studies this, psychoneuroimmunology, is now a leading edge medical science. It's very name acknowledges psycho and neuro as connected.
Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness, is a form of disease prevention.
Since the data shows that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.
I wonder why it takes years and years for even researched and proven information to be disseminated and percolated into all spaces of impact. Why do all hospitals not talk of this as part of the treatment. In fact I think they should just start in schools.
I wonder why it takes years and years for even researched and proven information to be disseminated and percolated into all spaces of impact. Why do all hospitals not talk of this as part of the treatment. In fact I think they should just start in schools.
"Compassion", as one patient put it in an open letter to his surgeon, is not mere hand holding. "It is good medicine"
The concept of your own personal physician the local doctor with a basic medical degree was a good one. The doctor healed by listening to you and knowing your non medical history.
ReplyDeleteThe quest to become a specialist and make money in most cases to pay off the loans taken for studying the course has driven out the personal physician concept. Maybe only the rich,famous,political personalities,have it.
The common man is left out in cold.