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Can the mind really heal the body?

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And if so, is there[br]any scientific evidence

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to convince skeptical physicians like me?

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These are the questions that fueled[br]the last few years of my research

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and what I discovered[br]is that the scientific community,

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the medical establishment,[br]has being proving for over 50 years,

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that the mind can heal the body.

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We call it the "placebo effect".

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And we've been trying[br]to outsmart it for decades.

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(Laughter)

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The placebo effect is a thorn in the side[br]of the medical establishment.

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It's an inconvenient truth,[br]that gets in between,

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trying to bring new treatments, new[br]surgeries into the medical establishment.

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So it's a problem![br]Supposedly.

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But I actually think,[br]this is really good news!

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The placebo effect is excellent news!

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Because it's concrete evidence

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that the body holds within it[br]innate self-repair mechanisms

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that can make unthinkable[br]things happen to the body.

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So, if you find this surprising,

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if you have a hard time believing[br]that the body can heal itself,

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you need look no further than[br]The Spontaneous Remission Project,

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a database compiled[br]by the Institute of Noetic Sciences

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of over 3500 case studies[br]in the medical literature

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of patients who have gotten better[br]from seemingly "incurable" illnesses.

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You think there's such[br]a thing as an incurable illness?

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I swear, if you go look at this database,[br]it will blow your mind.

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Everything is in there.

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Stage 4 cancers that disappeared[br]without treatment.

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HIV positive patients,[br]that became HIV negative.

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Heart disease, kidney failure,[br]diabetes, high blood pressure,

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thyroid disease,[br]autoimmune diseases, gone.

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A great example of this[br]in the medical literature,

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is a case study from 1957 of Mr. Wright[br]who had advanced lymphosarcoma.

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So, things weren't going well for[br]Mr. Wright, time was really running out.

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He had tumors the size of oranges in his[br]armpits, neck, chest, abdomen.

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His liver and spleen were enlarged,

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and his lungs were filling up with[br]two quarts of milky fluid every day

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that have to be drained[br]in order for him to breathe.

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But Mr. Wright wasn't giving up hope.

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He had heard about[br]this wonder drug called Krebiozen,

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and he was begging his doctor,

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"Come on, just give me some of that[br]Krebiozen, it's all going to be good."

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Now, unfortunately the Krebiozen was[br]only available on a research protocol

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and the protocol required that the doctor[br]be able to make an assessment

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that says that this guy has[br]at least three months to live.

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And his doctor,[br]Dr. West just couldn't do that.

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But Mr. Wright was tenacious[br]and he didn't give up.

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He kept badgering his doctor,

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until finally his doctor was like,[br]"OK, fine I'll give you the Krebiozen."

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So he dosed him up on a Friday,

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not expecting that Mr. Wright[br]would make it through the weekend.

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But to his utter shock, when Dr. West[br]came in to do rounds on Monday,

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Mr. Wright was up,[br]walking around the wards,

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and his tumors had shrunk[br]to half of their original size.

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They had melted like[br]snowballs on a hot stove.

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And ten days after getting[br]the Krebiozen, they were gone.

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So Mr. Wright was up[br]rocking and rolling like praising

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Krebiozen as the miracle drug[br]he believed it to be, for two months,

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until the initial reports[br]came out about Krebiozen

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that said that it didn't really look like[br]Krebiozen was working so well.

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Mr. Wright fell into a deep depression[br]and his cancer came back.

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This time Dr. West decided to get sneaky,[br]and he told his patient, that,

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"You know that Krebiozen that you got,[br]that was a tainted version, not so good.

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But I got us some ultrapure[br]highly concentrated Krebiozen,

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This stuff's got it going on."

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He then injected Mr. Wright[br]with nothing but distilled water.

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And once again, the tumors disappeared,[br]the fluid in his lungs went away.

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Mr. Wright was up rocking and rolling[br]for another two months.

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And then the American[br]Medical Association blew it,

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by publishing a nationwide study

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that proved definitively[br]that Krebiozen was worthless.

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Two days later, Mr. Wright,[br]after hearing this news, died.

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Soon after that,[br]I came across another study

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in the medical literature[br]that was the stuff of fairy tales.

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Three baby girls were born,[br]delivered by a midwife,

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on Friday the 13th in the Okefenokee[br]Swamp, near the Georgia-Florida border.

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And the midwife pronounced[br]that these three babies,

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born on such a fateful day,[br]were all hexed.

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The first, she said, would die[br]before her 16th birthday.

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The second, before her 21st.

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The third, before her 23rd birthday.

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And as it turned out, the first girl died[br]the day before her 16th birthday,

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the second died the day[br]before her 21st birthday,

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and the third girl, who knew what[br]had happened to the other two,

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got wind of that, and the day[br]before her 23rd birthday,

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she showed at the hospital[br]hyperventilating,

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begging them,[br]to make sure she survived.

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She wound up dying that night.

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These two case studies are great[br]examples from the medical literature

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of the placebo effect, and[br]its opposite, the nocebo effect.

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When Mr. Wright got that distilled[br]water and his tumors melted away,

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that's a great example[br]of the placebo effect.

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When you get a seemingly[br]inert treatment

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and yet something is happening[br]physiologically in the body,

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such that the disease goes away.

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The nocebo effect is the opposite.

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So the three hexed girls are[br]an example of the nocebo effect.

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When the mind's belief that something[br]bad is going to happen in the body

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then it comes to manifest.

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So the scientific literature,[br]medical journals

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like the New England Journal of Medicine

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and the Journal of the American[br]Medical Association,

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these scientific journals are[br]full of evidence that the placebo effect,

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and the nocebo effect[br]are incredibly powerful.

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We've known this since the 1950s,

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and we've seen countless case studies

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that show that in almost[br]everything you study,

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if you give people[br]a fake treatment, a sugar pill

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a saline injection, or most effectively,[br]a fake surgery,

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(Laughter)[br]- yeah, really -

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18-80% of the time, people get better.

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And it's not just in their mind,[br]that's what I thought in the beginning,

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like "Oh! They're just feeling better,[br]they're thinking better."

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But is not.[br]It's actually in their physiology.

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This is measurable.

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You can actually see[br]what happens to the body.

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So for example patients getting placebos

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were found to have ulcers that healed,

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colons that became less inflamed,[br]bronchi that dilated,

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warts that disappeared, cells[br]looked different under the microscope.

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It's provable, it's happening in the body,

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even though it's initiated by the mind.

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So, when you look at these,[br]some of the studies are just amazing.

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I love the Rogain studies.

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You get a bunch of bald men,[br]you give them placebos.

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They grow hair![br](Laughter)

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The opposite is also true,[br]so if you give people a placebo

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and you tell them it's chemotherapy,

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they vomit, and they lose their hair.

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So this is really happening in the body.

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My question was,

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Is it just the mind's positive belief[br]that's making this happen?

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Not according to Harvard[br]researcher Ted Kaptchuk.

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According to him, he thinks[br]that the most essential part

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is actually the nurturing care[br]of a healthcare provider,

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more so even than the mind's[br]positive belief

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that some of the studies actually say[br]that the doctor is the placebo or can be.

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So Ted Kaptchuk wanted to study this,

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and he did a great study[br]looking at patients

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that were getting placebos for an illness,

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for treatment of an illness[br]and he told them,

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"You're getting a placebo,[br]there's nothing in here,

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inert ingredients, nothing active."[br]They still got better.

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Most likely, Kaptchuk postulated,[br]because they felt tended, nurtured,

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they felt like they were doing something,[br]they felt like somebody cared.

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So to say that you can heal yourself[br]is sort of a misnomer.

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You know, the body can heal itself.

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The body has these innate[br]natural self repair mechanisms,

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but the scientific data[br]proves that you need

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the tending nurturing care of a healthcare[br]provider, of some sort, of a healer,

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to facilitate that process.

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It's not an easy process[br]to go through alone,

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so it makes a big difference

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if somebody else is holding[br]that positive belief with you.

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But the problem is while[br]the doctor can be the placebo,

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the doctor can also be the nocebo.

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So, what patients need from us,[br]as healthcare providers,

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they need us to be forces of healing,[br]not forces of fear or pessimism.

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So every time your doctor tells you,[br]"You have an incurable illness,

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you're going to have to take that[br]medication for the rest of your life,"

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or God forbid,[br]you get cancer and they say,

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"You've got a 5% five-year survival rate,"

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it's really no different that when[br]that midwife told those three baby girls

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that they were hexed.

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It's a form of medical hexing[br]that's so prevalent.

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As doctors, we think[br]we're being realistic, you know?

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We're giving people[br]the kind of information

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we think they need to know,

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but we actually can be harming them.

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Instead we need be more[br]like Dr. West. You know?

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Taking that distilled water,[br]"Really Mr.Wright,

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I promise, this is going to[br]do it for you."

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But do we have to count on[br]our doctors to dupe us?

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Do we have to get fake surgeries[br]and fake drugs,

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and wind up in clinical trials?

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This is what led[br]the next phase of my research.

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So in my last TEDx talk, l talked about

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a new wellness model that I developed,

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called the Whole Health Cairn,

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and this came about[br]as part of my research,

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trying to find how else can[br]we harness this mind's power

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that's clearly evidenced by[br]the placebo effect and the nocebo effect,

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can we do something without[br]being in a clinical trial?

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And my hypothesis was[br]that in order to heal ourselves,

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in order to be optimally healthy,

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we need more than just a good diet,[br]regular exercise program,

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getting enough sleep, taking your[br]vitamins, following your doctor's orders.

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Those things all are great,[br]and critical and important.

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But I also came to believe that[br]we need healthy relationships,

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a healthy professional life,[br]a healthy creative life,

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a healthy spiritual life,[br]a healthy sex life,

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a healthy financial life,[br]a healthy environment.

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In essence, we need a healthy mind.

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So I wanted to try to prove this, and[br]I went into the medical literature

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and the copious data that I found,

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proving that all of those things[br]are essential, really blew my mind.

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I compiled them all into my upcoming book,

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"Mind Over Medicine: Scientific[br]Proof You Can Heal Yourself".

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But I want to give you a few highlights[br]about what this is all about.

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So you can see from[br]the Whole Health Cairn,

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that all this facets are built upon[br]a foundation stone

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that I call your Inner Pilot Light.

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And for me that's the essential[br]authentic part of you,

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that knows what's true for you.

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That's willing to tell you the truth

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about maybe what's out[br]of alignment in your life,

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what stones in your Whole Health Cairn[br]might be out of balance.

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And as you see I've put the body,[br]physical health,

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on the top of the Whole Health Cairn

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because it's the most fragile,[br]the most precarious,

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and the most easy to kind[br]of fall out of balance

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if other things in your life[br]aren't going so well.

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So what I found in the medical data[br]is that relationships matter.

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People that have a strong social network[br]have half the rate of heart disease

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compared to those who are lonely.

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Married people are twice as likely[br]to live long lives than unmarried people.

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In fact, curing your loneliness may be

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the most important measure of prevention[br]you can enact upon your body.

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More so than quitting smoking[br]or starting to exercise.

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Your spiritual life matters.

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Those who attend religious services[br]live up to fourteen years longer.

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Your professional life matters.

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You really can work yourself to death.[br]In Japan they call it karoshi.

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Death by overwork, and the survivors[br]of those who die of karoshi,

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can actually apply for workman's[br]comp-like benefits in Japan.

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But it's not just Japan, it's actually[br]happening even more in the United States,

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we just don't get benefits here.

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So one study found that people[br]that fail to take their vacation,

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are actually a third more likely[br]to get heart disease.

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Your attitude really matters.

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Ηappy people live 7 to 10 years[br]longer than unhappy people,

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and optimists are 77% less likely[br]to get heart disease than pessimists.

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So how does this happen?

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What is happening in the brain[br]that is making the body change?

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This is what was fascinating to me.

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I found that the brain communicates[br]with all the cells in the body

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via hormones and neurotransmitters.

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So, for example, if you have[br]a negative thought, belief

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or feeling in the brain,[br]your brain triggers this as a threat.

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Something's wrong.

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If you feel lonely or pessimistic,[br]things are bad at work,

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you are in a toxic relationship,[br]the amygdala says, "Τhreat! Τhreat!"

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and it turns on the hypothalamus,[br]that talks to the pituitary gland,

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that communicates with the adrenal gland[br]and the adrenal gland start spitting out

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stress hormones like cortisol,[br]norepinephrine, epinephrine.

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Ιt turns on what Walter Cannon[br]at Harvard called the stress response,

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that triggers the sympathetic[br]nervous system,

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and puts you into that[br]fight or flight mode, which is adaptive,

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it's protective if you are running away[br]from a mountain lion,

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but in every day life, you're supposed[br]to have that quick stress response

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if there is a threat and then[br]it's supposed to switch right off.

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This isn't what happens[br]in our regular lives these days.

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But fortunately there is[br]a counter balancing relaxation response

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that Herbert Benson at Harvard described.

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And when this comes about,[br]the stress response turns off,

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the parasympathetic nervous system[br]turns on,

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and healing hormones like oxytocin,[br]dopamine, nitric oxide, endorphins

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fill the body and bathe[br]every cell in the body.

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What I found the most amazing about this

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is that those natural self-repair[br]mechanisms that we all have,

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they only flip on when[br]the nervous system is relaxed.

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So when you're having stress responses,

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all those natural self-repair[br]mechanisms get flipped off.

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The body is too busy trying to fight[br]or flee, in order to heal itself.

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So, when you think about this,[br]you have to start to wonder like,

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How can I possibly start to change[br]the balance in my own body?

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So one study showed[br]that on average we have

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more than 50 stress responses per day.

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And if you're lonely, or depressed[br]or pessimistic or unhappy at work

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or in a miserable relationship that number[br]is going to be more than twice as many.

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Now this relaxation response[br]is what researchers think

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explains the placebo effect.

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So when you're going to get supposedly[br]maybe a new wonder drug -

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you don't know whether you're getting[br]the placebo or not -

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it triggers that relaxation response,

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that combination of the mind's[br]positive belief

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and the nurturing care[br]of a healthcare provider

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relaxes the nervous system.

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And then all those natural self repair[br]mechanisms can come into play.

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Fortunately though you don't have[br]to be in a clinical trial

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to turn on your relaxation responses.

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There are lots of simple[br]pleasurable activities

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that turn on the relaxation responses

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and these have been proven[br]in the medical literature.

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So you can meditate,[br]you can express yourself creatively,

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you can get a massage,[br]do yoga or tai chi,

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you can go out with your friends,[br]you can do work that you love,

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you can have sex, you can laugh,[br]exercise, you can play with animals.

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So I ask you to consider[br]the Whole Health Cairn in your own life.

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Which stones in your Whole Health Cairn[br]might be out of balance?

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Each of these stones can be a factor

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for creating stress responses[br]or relaxation responses.

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How might you turn on more[br]relaxation responses in your body?

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And most importantly,

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what does your body[br]need in order to heal?

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What prescription do you need[br]to write for yourself?

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And are you going to be brave enough

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to take action on the truth of what[br]your inner pilot light already knows?

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I believe our healthcare system[br]is badly broken,

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and it's largely because[br]we've lost respect

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for the body's ability to heal itself.

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The medical establishment[br]has gotten arrogant.

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We've come to think[br]that with all of our modern technology,

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and all that we've learned[br]in the past century,

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that we've mastered nature,[br]and we find it repelling

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to think that maybe nature could[br]be better than we are sometimes.

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And yet, spontaneous remissions[br]from incurable diseases are proof

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that sometimes nature[br]is just better than we are.

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It's a narcisitic wound for physicians.

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We don't know what to do with that.

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It makes us feel helpless[br]and hopeless and useless.

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But fortunately, we're needed.

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The physician and all the other[br]healthcare providers

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are absolutely essential to this process.

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We need to embrace this.

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And patients need to change[br]their outlooks on this as well.

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It is not just doctors.

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We need patients to stop thinking[br]that your body is not your business,

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taking your power and handing it[br]over to other healthcare providers.

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Your body is your business,[br]and your mind has tremendous power

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to communicate with your body,[br]such that your body can heal itself.

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So I once had a dream,[br]and in my dream I was standing there,

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looking at these mountainsides,[br]full of millions of people

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that were standing shoulder to shoulder,

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and they were all facing due north,[br]dressed in all these tribal garbs,

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beautiful colors covering[br]the mountainsides like a quilt.

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And there was a bright[br]streaming light on their face

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and everyone was facing this light,

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and that's what I think of,[br]when I think of healthcare.

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I think of all of us, standing up,[br]and facing the light.

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So please stand with me for a moment.

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It's going to take all of us.

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Just because things have gotten bad[br]doesn't mean they can't get better.

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I believe that just like there are[br]no incurable illnesses

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there are no incurable systems.

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But it's going to take all of us, needing[br]to open our heart and our minds,

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and bring care back to healthcare.

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So please hold hands[br]with your fellow neighbor

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and let's just set[br]the intention right here,

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that things are going to be[br]different from now on,

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that we can start this grassroots effort[br]that it all starts with you.

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Be the love that you want to[br]see in healthcare,

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and I believe miracles can happen.

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As we do this you're releasing oxytocin,[br]dopamine, you start to heal yourself

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and as we do so we can heal healthcare.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)