This picture taken on September 29, 2013 shows children attending a class to learn how to speak English with an American accent at the Nature EQ school in Hong Kong. Photo: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
One of the most important shifts occurring in our understanding of the human body is its interconnectedness with our mind.
For eons“mind-body” has been in vogue in various circles (sometimes the vague “spirit” is thrown in), but even that term is ultimately futile: the mind is an aspect of the body, a function of the brain, a relationship to our environment. There was never any separateness to begin with.This has important consequences for how we treat disease. The placebo effect is one example: thinking we’re being healed really does make a difference in our healing process. The nocebo effect gets less attention but is equally relevant—people expecting a negative outcome grow sicker even when receiving a placebo.
Pretty much all of homeopathy, for example, is sugar water—a placebo. If there is any reason it “works,” we can thank our mind. Perspective means a lot when it comes to health. Knowing that is another step in empowering ourselves to live a healthy lifestyle.
New research published in The BMJ found an important link between intelligence and disease that could effect millions of people in the future: higher childhood IQ leads to a decreased risk of chronic disease until the age of seventy-nine.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh examined nearly 66,000 men and women born in Scotland in 1936, matching their IQ scores taken at age eleven with…
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