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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…people who deal with ADHD just don't look at, even though it's just a pure scientific fact. A summary from Harvard University pointed out that the child's brain develops in interaction with the environment, especially the emotional relationship with the…
…for people to understand that mind and body are the same system? Yeah, there was a very famous Romanian doctor in Harvard University in 1938 who said that the emotional factors are at least as important in causing physical disease, the physical factors,…
…any lack of evidence. And there was a very interesting guy called Robert Whitaker, who used to be head of medical publications at Harvard University. And he wrote a book called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And he also wrote for the Boston Globe, I think. And…
…for you now, but I can cite it. It's in the Journal of Pediatrics in February 2012. the articles from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, and they point out, summarizing decades of research, that the most important, the critical influence on…
…is that women with PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. Yeah, which is a study that came out of Harvard about five years ago. That study alone should send every doctor running to figure out the mind-body connection. Because innovation, it's…
…heartbreaking is that women with PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. Yeah, which is a study that came out of Harvard about five years ago. That study alone should send every doctor running to figure out the mind-body connection. Because in the…
…Hopkins in Baltimore said in the 1890s, I think, that rheumatoid arthritis was a stretch-driven disease. In 1938, a great lecturer at Harvard, a physician whose name is still honored at Harvard in a research day named after him, Dr. Soma Weiss, like myself…
…rheumatoid arthritis was a stretch-driven disease. In 1938, a great lecturer at Harvard, a physician whose name is still honored at Harvard in a research day named after him, Dr. Soma Weiss, like myself from Hungary. He said that emotional factors are at…
…develop mental illness, or to suffer from high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, or cancer. In a similar study, Harvard undergraduates were interviewed about their perception of parental caring. 35 years later, these subjects' health were reviewed. My…
…health issues, for relational issues, and also for autoimmune disease and malignancy. So for example, there was a study out of Harvard University, I think three years ago, women with severe PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. Really? Yeah, really.…
…told to get out there and get back to work. And another friend of mine, Dr. Jeff Rettiger, who's a psychiatrist at Harvard, who's written a book on what's called spontaneous remissions, which are not spontaneous at all. But Jeff, when he was a resident,…
…to develop properly, you need a right environment. Now the human brain develops, I'm quoting a scientific article from Harvard now, the human brain develops from conception into adulthood. So brain development begins in the womb. continues into adulthood.…
…them emotional support in the classroom and in the schools let the schools be the human brain I'm quoting a Harvard study, develops from before birth. It's an ongoing process that begins before birth and continues into adulthood. The necessary conditions…
…adults. I think maybe Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is one of the people that you've interviewed. Anyway, Dr. Herman is a psychiatrist at Harvard. Yeah. Are you hearing me now? Yes, yes. Oh, okay. So I was talking to Dr. Judith Herman. Yes, I hear you. She's…
…hearing me now? Yes, yes. Oh, okay. So I was talking to Dr. Judith Herman. Yes, I hear you. She's a psychiatrist at Harvard. In the 90s, she wrote a book called Trauma and Recovery, and she argued that there's only one psychiatric diagnosis, which is…
…that begins before birth and continues into adulthood. I am quoting now from an article from an American medical journal from Harvard University. So that means The main job of the parents, of the daycares, of the kindergartens, of the schools is not…
…appeared in the journal Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The article is from Harvard University Center for Developing Child. And what is so frustrating is I travel around North America and the world talking…
…and to provoke as deep a shift of perspective as I possibly can in a very short period of time. Anyway, here's what this Harvard article says about the brain. Now, did you know this? Let me tell you. These two paragraphs I'm going to read you now,…
…which is the leading pediatric journal in North America. The article came from the Center on a Developing Child from Harvard, and they actually argued, and they showed... collated a lot of research that social and physical environments that threaten human…
…in the journal Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Pediatric Association. This article was published from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. And this article was published two years ago And if only the medical profession…
…disease? We're not blaming the patient for the disease because these are not deliberate, consciously chosen patterns. Remember that Harvard article I quoted to you? Adaptations. that help you survive the immediate stress in childhood, become source of pathology…
…a much higher rate of endometriosis, which is a risk factor for uterine cancer. We also know from a recent study from Harvard that the more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder a woman has, the greater her risk for ovarian cancer. So, when Eve asks,…
…mind and body are inseparable. And, by the way, I'm not the only one who writes about this. There's been researchers from Harvard and elsewhere who have documented similar cases. The point we're all making is that the mind and body is inseparable. The…
…get out there and get back to work. You know, and another friend of mine, Dr. Jeff Rediger, was a psychiatrist at Harvard, who's written a book on what's called spontaneous remissions, which are not spontaneous at all. But Jeff, when he was a resident,…
…learn about brain development. If you look at how the human brain develops, it was sounded beautifully in an article from Harvard University, and nobody's ever heard about it. That's what's astonishing. All this stuff is published in major journals, and it…
…cortisol, the adrenaline and the stress hormones affect the child's developing brain. And according to a major study out of Harvard University published in the Journal of Pediatrics, which is the major pediatric journal in the world, the most important…
…Like the, everybody's, you know, the information just disappears and sinks without a trace, you know, studied two years ago from Harvard, the more trauma, the more PTSD symptoms a woman experiences, the greater her risk for ovarian cancer. Now we know the…
…people who were sexually abused as children have a significantly increased risk of multiple sclerosis. Wow. You mentioned the study from Harvard. Women with severe PTSD have double the risk of ovarian cancer. Parents who lose a child are more likely to…
…by listening, what it means is it begins by connecting. Absolutely, yeah. Right. Remember Jerome Frank, who was a psychiatrist at Harvard? Yeah. He said what works in psychotherapy is that the doctor has a method. The doctor believes in the method. Right.…
…deny it. 150 years later, the New York Times discovered this study. In 1938... A very revered lecturer or professor, physician at Harvard University Medical School came from Hungary, like me. His name was Soma Weiss. And he said in a lecture to a medical…
…least as important in the treatment of them. So this is from the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is at Harvard. Here's the joke. Annually at Harvard, they still have a day named after Somer Weiss. He was that respected. But four years…
…treatment of them. So this is from the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is at Harvard. Here's the joke. Annually at Harvard, they still have a day named after Somer Weiss. He was that respected. But four years ago, I was speaking to a…
…still have a day named after Somer Weiss. He was that respected. But four years ago, I was speaking to a psychiatrist at Harvard who says, to this day, to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to risk your career. That's changing, he said. But…
…But four years ago, I was speaking to a psychiatrist at Harvard who says, to this day, to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to risk your career. That's changing, he said. But it's still difficult. You know how difficult it is? I wrote this…
…aspect programming the circuitry of the brain is the emotional environment in which the child grows up. There's an article from Harvard University published five years ago that says that the... The brain is shaped by interaction of genes and environment, and…
…their brains developed in certain ways. and so did their personalities. So I'm going to quote you from a neuroscientist from Harvard, sorry, Stanford University. His name is Robert Sapolsky, incidentally. If you haven't had him on your show, you should. Do…
…so for a long time. My first book was actually on ADHD, Scattered Minds. But let me go back to this article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child that I quoted to you before. And what do they say in their abstract? Here's what they say.…
…to long-term outcomes in learning, behavior, health, and longevity. So says the American Pediatric Association Journal of Pediatrics from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child in 2012. In other words, the way kids cope with early adversity helps them…
…have within us. So would you agree with that statement to some degree? To a large degree. There's an article from Harvard University published in the Journal of Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in 2012,…
…in the Journal of Pediatrics. This is the official organization of American pediatricians. And the article is from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Now, this Harvard Center is the world's foremost child brain development study organization. And…
…official organization of American pediatricians. And the article is from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Now, this Harvard Center is the world's foremost child brain development study organization. And in this article published 11 years ago now,…
…to understand that the problems themselves that relationships can solve were created in the first place by relationships. So in 1939, At Harvard University, oh, by the way, let me just riff a bit here on Hungarian doctors, okay? I was born in Hungary.…
…to go back to Hungarian physicians, in 1939, there was another Hungarian doctor called Soma Weiss. And Soma Weiss, W-E-I-S-S, taught at Harvard. so honored and revered was he and is he even now that to this day every year there's a Soma Weiss research…
…honored and revered was he and is he even now that to this day every year there's a Soma Weiss research day at Harvard where people present new research under the aegis of this commemoration of this highly venerated teacher. And Soma Weiss in 1939 gave…
…of this commemoration of this highly venerated teacher. And Soma Weiss in 1939 gave a lecture to the medical school class at Harvard in which he said that emotional and psychological and social factors are at least as important in the arising of disease…
…them. Now when he said this, he didn't have a whole lot of science, but he saw what he saw. Somehow I said this at Harvard, every year they honor him With this song I say, and four years ago, five years ago, four or five years ago, I was…
…abused have double or triple the rate of heart disease, regardless of whether they smoke or drink or not. A study out of Harvard some years ago, a few years ago, showed that women with severe post traumatic stress disorder have double the risk of ovarian…
…brain actually develops? If you actually look at the brain science of brain development, to quote from an article from Harvard University, 2012, the brain develops through a complex interaction that begins before birth and continues into adulthood and is…
…get medical treatment. And these are the cases that we call spontaneous remissions. And there's a Dr. Jeff Rediger from Harvard, who's a psychiatrist actually, who's also written a book on a similar subject called Cured, the Science of Spontaneous Remission,…
…related to life experiences and stress and trauma. And there's a lot of research on that. There was a report out of Harvard three years ago that showed that a woman with severe post-traumatic stress disorder has doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. And the…
…many colleagues. As I cite in the book, in 1938, There was a very famous lecture given by another Hungarian Jewish physician at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. He came from Transylvania. And he is so revered that at Harvard to this day, there's a day…
…by another Hungarian Jewish physician at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. He came from Transylvania. And he is so revered that at Harvard to this day, there's a day named in his honor, a research day named after him. And he gave this lecture to a…
…have today. Now, despite the fact that they still honor his memory by a research day in his honor, A leading physician at Harvard told me four years ago that to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard today is still to jeopardize your career. And this…
…a research day in his honor, A leading physician at Harvard told me four years ago that to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard today is still to jeopardize your career. And this guy is a psychiatrist and he's the head of a department at Harvard.…
…February's edition of Pediatrics, which is the major pediatric journal in North America. And this is an article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, and it's called An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Development. Here's what they say.…
…increasing. So the child's brain is actually affected by the stress in the environment. And here's further from the same Harvard article. They talk about brain development and how the human brain actually develops, and here's what they say about that.…
…responsiveness and supportive interaction of the environment. And of course, remember what I said about, when I was quoting from that Harvard article, about how the brain develops in response to the mutual responsiveness of child and adult? In the same way,…
…factors affect our immune system, our hormonal apparatus, our nervous system, our guts, our heart, and so on. So, a study out of Harvard three years ago showed that the higher the symptoms of PTSD in a woman, double the risk of ovarian cancer. In other…
…up in Boston or grew up in the United States. And she was an executive to a high level academic at Harvard. when in her late twenties, she developed stiffness and joint pain inflammation, then was subsequently diagnosed with scleroderma or systemic…
…what in your medical education or your scientific training would allow you to account for this particular turnaround? Now, the Harvard psychiatrist, Jeff Rettiger, who is the head of medical director at McLean's Hospital, published a book last year called…
…words, you can't separate the person's emotional and cognitive existence from their physiology. In 1939, there was a great teacher at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. Actually, like myself, he'd come from Hungary. And there's still a day in his honor at…
…at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. Actually, like myself, he'd come from Hungary. And there's still a day in his honor at Harvard, a research day in his honor. He was considered that great. And he gave a very profound lecture to a medical school class…
…to my colleagues about it. And when I talked to Jeff Rediger, who's again, the head of McLean Hospital, medical director there at Harvard, he said, at Harvard to talk about the mind body thing is to jeopardize your career, he says. This is changing, he…
…people who deal with ADHD just don't look at, even though it's just a pure scientific fact. A summary from Harvard University pointed out that the child's brain develops in interaction with the environment, especially the emotional relationship with the…
…again is that the human brain biologically develops under the impact of the environment, and as an article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental organization, published in the Journal of…
…you a quote from... an article in the Journal of Pediatrics that was published in 2012. And it's from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. And the article is entitled, An Integrated Scientific Framework for Understanding Child Development. And here's…
…problem, here's the solution, because we're not looking. So, I'll read you short two sentences again from the same article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, And they talk about brain development. And I'm not going to go into the details of…
…you change yourself, and in fact, there's a friend of mine now, a recent friend, Dr. Jeff Rediger, who's a psychiatrist at Harvard. And last year, he wrote a book called Cured. The Science of Spontaneous Healing. That was the subtitle. Now, he studied…
…the brain is developing. And so if you look at the brain science or brain development, I could quote you an article from Harvard University, which if you give me a quick second, I will actually bring up on my computer and will quote for you because…
…computer and will quote for you because I think it's essential. And this is an article published in 2012 from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the was leading child developmental institution. The article appeared…
…quote for you because I think it's essential. And this is an article published in 2012 from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the was leading child developmental institution. The article appeared in a major medical…
…these kids were brought up in a different environment. But what did I just read you? I just read you an article from Harvard University that says that the brain starts developing in the womb. So these kids shared nine months in the same womb. And by…
…and difficult concentration. That's biological. But here's the whole point that people miss. I just read you two sentences from Harvard University in brain development. The biology of the brain is shaped by the environment. acting on the genes. So it's…
…a study that I called women with severe post-traumatic stress disorder have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer, according to a Harvard study a few years ago. Well, that means that the severe emotions endured by the woman with PTSD can declare themselves…
…in the journal Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Pediatric Association. This article was published from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. And this article was published two years ago. And if only the medical profession…
…disease? We're not blaming the patient for the disease because these are not deliberate, consciously chosen patterns. Remember that Harvard article I quoted to you? Adaptations. that help you survive the immediate stress in childhood, become source of pathology…
…the journal Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. And the article is from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. You couldn't find a more prestigious university, a more prestigious institution. And this article…
…journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, published in January 2012. It was an article on childhood development generated by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. So as prestigious as you get. And in the abstract, they say that human environments,…
…And the article appeared in their journal six years ago now, in February of 2012. And the article is from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. And here's what they say in their abstract. Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that social and…
…health issues, I just wish we'd actually looked at the evidence. But we don't. This article I quoted to you from Harvard It wasn't published in some fly-by-night alternative publication. It was in a major medical journal. It makes no difference whatsoever.…
…me. I don't have any needs. Just tolerate me. That's how she survives. Now, remember I quoted that article from Harvard, that those early coping mechanisms then become sources of pathology later on. Because those early coping patterns, here's the problem…
…Let me tell you a story that I quote in the Metanormal, but in 1938, 39, there was a very famous Hungarian doctor at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. He came from Transylvania. And he was so honored, so revered that to this day at Harvard, every year…
…doctor at Harvard. His name was Soma Weiss. He came from Transylvania. And he was so honored, so revered that to this day at Harvard, every year they have a day in his honor. It's called the Sommerweis Research Day. Cool. In 39, he gave a very famous…
…in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1940. Four years ago, talking to a friend of mine, a psychiatrist at Harvard, he said that to this day to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. So on one hand,…
…to a friend of mine, a psychiatrist at Harvard, he said that to this day to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. So on one hand, they revere Weiss for his physiological accomplishments, and they've completely forgotten what…
…now know that the brain develops an interaction with the environment. The process begins before birth. To quote this article from Harvard that I read to you last night, that the process of brain development begins before birth. and stresses on the pregnant…
…it develops under the impact of the environment. So I'm going to quote you two sentences from a major paper from Harvard University, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, appeared in the journal Pediatrics in February 2012. And it says, the…
…the impact of the environment. So I'm going to quote you two sentences from a major paper from Harvard University, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, appeared in the journal Pediatrics in February 2012. And it says, the architecture of the brain…
…because you can't change the situation and you can't leave it. So the tuning out is like an adaptation. But as this Harvard article points out, those early adaptations help the child in the short term, but they become the sources of pathology or…
…continue evolving our lineage to do our work to make it lighter and we learn um You know, I quoted that article from Harvard University on brain development. So I spoke to Dr. Jack Shankoff, who's a pediatrician, and he's the head of the Harvard Child…
…Harvard University on brain development. So I spoke to Dr. Jack Shankoff, who's a pediatrician, and he's the head of the Harvard Child Development Institute. And I asked him, do you worry about guilting parents when you talk about early development? He…
…the same relationship between It's these same conditions, endometriosis, arthritis, or, for example, malignancy. A study came out of Harvard three years ago, I think, that showed that women with severe post-traumatic stress disorder have doubled the risk of…
…And people who, this is documented, by the way, Let me ramble a bit. In 1938, there was a Hungarian physician at Harvard, his name was Soma Weiss, very revered medical teacher, revered to the point that to this day, there's an annual research day…
…Weiss, very revered medical teacher, revered to the point that to this day, there's an annual research day in his honor at Harvard. And someone once told a medical school class that emotional factors are at least as important in a causation of physical…
…point that as I read that article about Weiss or his article, At the same time, I was talking to a medical colleague at Harvard. His name is Dr. Jeff Rediger. And Jeff is a psychiatrist. He's the head of one of the departments at McLean's Hospital at…
…name is Dr. Jeff Rediger. And Jeff is a psychiatrist. He's the head of one of the departments at McLean's Hospital at Harvard. And he himself has written a book called Radical... No, sorry, that's somebody else. He wrote a book called Cured the...…
…So how would they understand these relationships? Let me tell you, Fascinating vignette. In 1938, there was a very famous physician at Harvard. His name was Dr. Solmont Weiss. He was so famous and so revered that at Harvard every year, they still have a…
…In 1938, there was a very famous physician at Harvard. His name was Dr. Solmont Weiss. He was so famous and so revered that at Harvard every year, they still have a day in his honor, a research day in his honor. He was that revered. And he gave a…
…average physician just doesn't know a thing about that. There was a study three years ago, four years ago now, from Harvard University that showed that women with severe post-traumatic stress disorder have double the risk of ovarian cancer. Double the risk.…
…entities and things in themselves, but we're actually looking at processes. Now, in 1939, there was a very famous physician at Harvard University. His name was Soma Weiss. And Weiss was Hungarian, like myself, and from Transylvania, in this case. And he…
…University. His name was Soma Weiss. And Weiss was Hungarian, like myself, and from Transylvania, in this case. And he taught at Harvard. And he was one of the most respected teachers at Harvard, so respected that to this day, annually, they have a…
…like myself, and from Transylvania, in this case. And he taught at Harvard. And he was one of the most respected teachers at Harvard, so respected that to this day, annually, they have a research day in his honor. And in 1939, Salma Weiss, who was a…
…JAMA. Jump ahead to four years ago when I was writing this book and I was speaking to a leading psychiatrist at Harvard. His name is Dr. Jeff Rediger. And Jeff has written a book called Cured, The Miraculous Science of Spontaneous Remission. Because what…
…again. is that the human brain biologically develops under the impact of the environment. And as an article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental organization, Published in the Journal of…
…a four step method for coaching. And, and at the, at the time, Joe Biederman, who's one of the big academic experts at Harvard medical school and ADHD, he laughed at me. He said, Hallowell thinks you need a coach. I thought that was for baseball…
…physiology and even showing the physiological pathways connecting physiology and emotions. In 1938, there was a very famous doctor at Harvard University. He was a Hungarian from Transylvania. His name was Soma Weiss. Soma Weiss It was so respected at Harvard…
…doctor at Harvard University. He was a Hungarian from Transylvania. His name was Soma Weiss. Soma Weiss It was so respected at Harvard that to this day, every year at Harvard University, they have a day named after him, a research day, in his honor.…
…Hungarian from Transylvania. His name was Soma Weiss. Soma Weiss It was so respected at Harvard that to this day, every year at Harvard University, they have a day named after him, a research day, in his honor. And in 1938, Selma Weiss said to a medical…
…was published in a journal of the American Medical Association in 1940. You can still find it in the libraries. This is at Harvard, where they still remember him. Now this is what's amazing. Three years ago, when I was writing my new book, which is…
…been published in North America, Romania, Hungary. It's going to be published all over the world. I was talking to a doctor at Harvard. This doctor is Dr. Jeff Rediger. He's the head of a department at Harvard University at one of the hospitals. He told…
…of course. They're not Christians. Jesus didn't come to make us rich. And you didn't have to suffer through three years of Harvard Divinity School as I did to figure that one out. No, I wrote a book, American Fascists, the Christian Right in the…
…problems. So there's an article in the Journal of Pediatrics, major pediatrics journal in 2012 on child development from Harvard. And it said that the adaptations that people, that children make psychologically, emotionally and physiologically to stress or…
…journal, Pediatrics, 11 years ago now. This is the official journal of the American Pediatric Academy. And the article was from Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child. And here's what they said. The architecture of the brain is constructed to an…
…in a warm, nurturing context for much longer than they are these days. Now the schools. So there's an article from Harvard University that appeared in the Journal of Pediatrics in February 2012, and they talk about the necessary conditions for brain…
…article is called An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival in Early Childhood Development. And it's from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. And they say... Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that social and physical environments that…
…think is the necessary environmental condition for the proper development of the human brain? I'll quote you again from that same Harvard article. Yeah, we'll offer the article. I'll put the link up afterwards on the website and email it out. Okay, great.…
…you know, he doesn't buy the attachment theory stuff. He doesn't look at, you know, on one hand, you don't know if he's for Harvard or not. He came to me, asked me to endorse his book in which he misrepresents my work. I said, I will not endorse…
…The human brain develops an interaction with the environment. And in the book, I forget on what page, I quote a study from Harvard published in 2012. not a study but a paper from Harvard, Harvard Center on the Developing Child, where they point out that…
…the book, I forget on what page, I quote a study from Harvard published in 2012. not a study but a paper from Harvard, Harvard Center on the Developing Child, where they point out that the human brain develops by an ongoing process that begins before…
…book, I forget on what page, I quote a study from Harvard published in 2012. not a study but a paper from Harvard, Harvard Center on the Developing Child, where they point out that the human brain develops by an ongoing process that begins before birth…
…remission is supposedly when somebody spontaneously gets better after having been given a terminal diagnosis. And there's a psychiatrist at Harvard, Dr. Jeff Rediger, who, by the way, you might want to talk to sometime. He's written a book called Cured,…
…either. And yet, as I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization.…
…I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization. The article appeared in…
…either. And yet, as I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization.…
…I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization. The article appeared in…
…Yeah. And even stress during pregnancy or early childhood can shape someone's patterns? Well, there was an article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child 13 years ago published in the journal Pediatrics. And it's on early childhood development. It's…
…has billions and trillions of connections. There's not enough genes to program our brains. So the second sentence from that Harvard article that I cited is that... The interactions of genes and experiences literally shapes the circuitry of the developing…
…colleagues would scorn me out for practicing scientific medicine. That's how bad it is. I tell another story. There was a teacher at Harvard in the late 1930s. His name was, is this okay or am I telling too many stories here? No, it's great. All right.…
…okay or am I telling too many stories here? No, it's great. All right. I love your stories. Yeah. There was a teacher at Harvard in the late 1930s, early 40s. His name was Soma Weiss. Like me, he was a Hungarian Jew, but he came from Transylvania,…
…came from Transylvania, which at that time was part of Romania, but it was a Hungarian-speaking part. And he came to, he taught at Harvard He is so revered at Harvard that to this day they have an annual Soma Weiss Research Day in his honor. Okay, so…
…Remission. That was the original subtitle. The paperback has come out with a different subtitle, but Jeffrey Rediger, a Harvard psychiatrist and hospital director, wrote that book, published last year, and he did the same thing. He documented people…
…February 2012, the article comes from the most prestigious, one of the most prestigious research institutions in the world, the Harvard Center in the Developing Child. And what do they say? This is their abstract. growing scientific evidence demonstrates that…
…to all of these conditions and doctors never hear about it it's like it didn't exist In 1938, a leading physician at Harvard gave a lecture that was published in the Journal of the Medical Association in 1940, which said that emotional factors are just…
…them emotional support in the classroom and in the schools. Let the schools be. The human brain... according to a Harvard study, develops from before birth. It's an ongoing process that begins before birth and continues into adulthood. The necessary…
…them. Now in that chapter called Diseases Teacher, I quote two American researchers, absolutely credentialed. One of them is a physician at Harvard, Dr. Jeff Rediger. Yeah, great book. Have you had Jeff? No, I want to. We went to schedule it, then he…
…as physicians. Is that possible that we don't? But in any case, Jeff Rediger, he's a director of a hospital unit at Harvard, at McLean's Hospital in Massachusetts. He's also a doctor of divinity and a psychiatrist and a physician. And in this book, he…
…educators, well, here's the thing. If you look at how does the human brain develop, I quote an article from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child that appeared in the Journal of Pediatrics, official journal of the American Pediatric Academy in 2012,…
…of the American Academy of Pediatrics, published in January 2012. It was an article on childhood development generated by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. So as prestigious as you get. And in abstract, they say that human environments, that…
…think that's how you're going to serve humanity, not because you think people will be impressed. If you want to go to Harvard or Princeton or Oxford or Cambridge, go there because you really want to study how to solve the world's problems, not because…
…it first began. She died of ovarian cancer. And incidentally, there was a study that I mentioned in the book came out of Harvard three years ago. Women with severe PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. And if that was the only study ever done,…
…Nor does the average teacher. and I'm gonna give you the essence of it. And I'm quoting from an article from Harvard University published in a major medical journal in 2012. The human develops to an ongoing process, I'm quoting, that begins before…
…journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, published in January 2012. It was an article on childhood development generated by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. So as prestigious as you get. And in the abstract they say that human environments,…
…mentally, if you treat them bad enough. Because how does the brain actually develop? And I'll quote you from an article from Harvard University, 14 years ago now, Very famous article. So famous that nobody's ever heard about it. But it's published in the…
…these people on your podcast. One of them is called Cured. by Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, who's a physician and psychiatrist at Harvard. And cured is his book where they looked at people with so-called spontaneous remissions, people who, despite the failure of…
…So how would they understand these relationships? Let me tell you a fascinating vignette. In 1938, there was a very famous physician at Harvard. His name was Dr. Solmont Weiss. He was so famous and so revered that at Harvard every year, they still have a…
…In 1938, there was a very famous physician at Harvard. His name was Dr. Solmont Weiss. He was so famous and so revered that at Harvard every year, they still have a day in his honor, a research day in his honor. He was that revered. And he gave a…
…you change yourself, and in fact, there's a friend of mine now, a recent friend, Dr. Jeff Rediger, who's a psychiatrist at Harvard. And last year, he wrote a book called Cured. The Science of Spontaneous Healing. That was the subtitle. Now, he studied…
…of asthma. It's been shown that women with severe PTSD have double the risk of ovarian cancer. This is a study out of Harvard University. Adults who experience the loss of an adult child have a higher risk of malignancy of the bone marrow and the blood.…
…of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It's about as prestigious as you can get. 2012. The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not…
…The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not present new information so much as it elegantly summarized decades of research. And notice…
…of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It's about as prestigious as you can get. 2012. The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not…
…The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not present new information so much as it elegantly summarized decades of research. And notice…
…health issues, for relational issues, and also for autoimmune disease and malignancy. So for example, there was a study out of Harvard University, I think three years ago, women with severe PTSD have double the risk of ovarian cancer. Really? Yeah, really.…
…of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It's about as prestigious as you can get. 2012. The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not…
…The article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, again a prestigious child development research institution at Harvard University. This article did not present new information so much as it elegantly summarized decades of research. And notice…
…them. Now, in that chapter called Diseases Teacher, I quote two American researchers. Absolutely credentialed. One of them is a physician at Harvard, Dr. Jeff Rediger. Yeah, great book. Have you had Jeff? No, I want to. We went to schedule it, then he…
…either. And yet, as I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization.…
…I've already mentioned, that's a huge influence. Now, let me quote to you an article from Harvard University, from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child developmental study organization. The article appeared in…
…post-traumatic stress disorder, the more severe it is, the more their risk of ovarian cancer goes up. According to a study from Harvard just three years ago. But we call it a disorder. Well, yeah, but it puts the onus on the individual. Something's wrong…
…this song I say, and four years ago, five years ago, four or five years ago, I was interviewing a psychiatrist at Harvard, one of Harvard's leading psychiatrists, and he said that to this day, to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to jeopardize…
…psychiatrist at Harvard, one of Harvard's leading psychiatrists, and he said that to this day, to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. And Weiss's article, by the way, was published in the Journal of the American Medical…
…today is still to jeopardize your career. And this guy is a psychiatrist and he's the head of a department at Harvard. That makes no sense. And so there's this tyranny of double-blind psychiatrists laboratory studies or double-blind studies, which is a…
…just like I did. I didn't mean to, but I did. So, just to quote a great scientist, Dr. Jack Shonkoff at the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, he said that, you can't say that parents are incredibly important in the lives of their children, yet…
…it. And when I talked to Jeff Rediger, who's again, the head of McLean Hospital, medical director there at Harvard, he said, at Harvard to talk about the mind body thing is to jeopardize your career, he says. This is changing, he said, but this was true…
…environment acting on the genes that shapes the biology of the developing brain. One more time, as I've just quoted from that Harvard article. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. It's got to be true for so many people. In fact, 88 percent of…
…disease and then they don't. But in any case, Jeff told me that to talk about mind-body medicine to this day at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. He said it's getting better, but it's still very, very difficult. Still very, very difficult. Well,…
…brain itself develops an interaction with the emotional environment. So I'm not going to find a citation now, but I can quote a Harvard paper that came out in 2012, that point, and it was published in a major medical journal, the Journal of... Excuse me.…
…Excuse me. I've been on a four-week speaking trip and my voice is starting to notice the difference. This article from Harvard. said that the human brain develops with a complex process that begins before birth and continues into adulthood. And the most…
…these observations, reprinted in the Journal of the Medical Association, and Jeff said to me, to talk about mind-body medicine at Harvard today is to jeopardize your career. He says it's getting better, but it's still really, really difficult. And a book I…
…And again, this is one of these articles that often get published. And they come from, this article comes from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, which is the world's most prestigious child development research institution. If you want to know…
…influenced by the mutual responsiveness of adult-child relationships, particularly in the early childhood years. This is a study article from Harvard. They didn't make this up. Their article summarized 30 years of brain research. By then, 23 years of brain…
…experience all their emotions, to have those emotions validated by mutually responsive adults. Remember that quote from the Harvard article. The emotional relationship responsiveness between parent and child. That's the most important factor in brain development.…
…the world. I was talking to a doctor at Harvard. This doctor is Dr. Jeff Rediger. He's the head of a department at Harvard University at one of the hospitals. He told me that to this day, to talk about mind-body health or mind-body medicine at Harvard…
…University at one of the hospitals. He told me that to this day, to talk about mind-body health or mind-body medicine at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. So this is 80 years after Somerweiss made that statement, published in the Journal of American…
…time was part of Romania, but it was a Hungarian-speaking part. And he came to, he taught at Harvard He is so revered at Harvard that to this day they have an annual Soma Weiss Research Day in his honor. Okay, so that's how revered he was. In 1939,…
…Journal of the Medical Association in 1940. Now, jump ahead to the present. A few years ago, I was interviewing a psychiatrist at Harvard. His name is Dr. Jeff Rediger. He's a department head at one of the hospitals at Harvard. And Jeff wrote a book…
…was interviewing a psychiatrist at Harvard. His name is Dr. Jeff Rediger. He's a department head at one of the hospitals at Harvard. And Jeff wrote a book called Cured about people who seem to get better from terminal illnesses without medical treatment or…
…to talk to him. Anyway, so we were talking with Jeff, and Jeff told me that to talk about mind-body health at Harvard is to jeopardize your career. Now, it's changing. They've not established an institute for mind, but he said it's changing, but it's…