Mind Over Medicine

The Nocebo Response

May 9, 2008 in Mind Over Medicine | 2 comments

"The biomedical view is so pervasive that we often fail to see it as such but view it as reality. Questioning this model is like asking whether a goldfish knows it is in water." - O'Boyle, 1993The placebo response has become a well-known, though severely misunderstood, phenomenon in popular culture. But many outside of the medical profession have never heard of the "nocebo response" which is often referred to as the "evil twin" ...
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Pleasure is good for you

April 23, 2008 in Mind Over Medicine | 2 comments

There's no doubt that optimal nutrition plays a significant role in supporting our health and well-being. But nutrition, as important as it is, obviously isn't the only factor that influences our physiology.Over the past several years, an increasing amount of research has focused on the role of emotions, behavior and beliefs in contributing to both health and disease. In fact, an entirely new discipline called "psychoneuroimmunology" (say that three times fast!) has emerged to ...
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