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.