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Discover how your mind controls your physical health in "Mindbody Medicine." Endorsed by Arianna Huffington and credited by NBA star Michael Porter Jr. for healing chronic pain. What if the key to wellness isn't medication but understanding your nervous system's hidden language?
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When Your Mind Writes Prescriptions Your Body Must Fill
A woman arrives at the emergency room with crushing chest pain, certain she's having a heart attack. Every test comes back normal. Her heart is fine. Yet the pain is real, the fear is real, and the trip to the ER costs thousands of dollars. This scenario plays out in hospitals across America every single day-not because patients are lying or imagining things, but because we've fundamentally misunderstood how health actually works. We've spent decades treating bodies as if they're machines with broken parts, ignoring the intricate dance between our thoughts, emotions, relationships, and physical symptoms. The revolutionary insight at the heart of mind-body medicine is deceptively simple: your biography becomes your biology. The stress from your demanding job, the loneliness after a divorce, the anxiety about your finances-these aren't just "in your head." They're in your blood pressure, your immune cells, your gut, and your heart. Traditional medicine asks a straightforward question: What's broken, and how do we fix it? The biopsychosocial model asks something far more interesting: Why did this person get sick at this particular moment in their life?
The Three-Stranded Rope: Biology, Psychology, and Social Connection
When Your Body Becomes a Battlefield: The Stress Response and Its Long Shadow
Your Inner Army: When Defense Becomes Disease
Rewriting Your Genetic Destiny: The Epigenetic Revolution
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Cognition and Physical Health
Moving Through Life: Personality, Relationships, and Well-Being
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