Episode 57 - Dr. David Schechter and the Mind-Body Connection

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  • "Fuck pain. Fuck heartbreak. I'm still in love with life"
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Episode:

  • Howard Stern healing his back by reading a book
  • Asking a different set of questions
  • Knee pain leads to a meeting with Dr. John Sarno and a change in career & life
  • What is TMS and how it affects millions of people
  • How emotions can cause very real, debilitating physical symptoms
  • An alternative to popping pain pills
  • Hi Albert! For floatation tanks in Torrance float clinic
  • Creating a treatment based on the individual in front of you
  • Type T personality. What personalities are most prone to TMS (perfectionism, being hard on yourself, high level of responsibility, being sensitive, etc.)
  • The stages of healing
  • Placebo effect accesses the underlining healing ability of the mind-body
  • A UCLA study being able to accurately predict who will respond to placebo and who will not
  • Therapy and TMS
  • Why chronic pain is worse during middle age than later in life
  • The emotional underpinnings of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Asthma
  • Stress management should be taught in middle school
  • TMS and depression
  • Check out our guest's book "Think Away Your Pain" and while you are at it please do that using our amazon link. And his website.

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