| 00:00:00 | Thank you.
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| 00:00:04 | [Captioned by
Maryland public television]
>> Dr. Esther Sternberg: This is
where they came,
traveling for days,
over mountains and across the
Mediterranean.
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| 00:00:21 | In pain, weak,
sometimes unable to walk.
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| 00:00:27 | They came for relief,
for quiet,
to sleep, dream, and heal.
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| 00:00:38 | Could the ancients, followers of
Asclepius, the Greek god of
healing, have known something
about the body that we are just
beginning to understand today?
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| 00:00:51 | What is healing, and what roles
do our emotions and brains play
in the process?
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| 00:01:00 | Have we lost our balance?
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| 00:01:03 | Can we get it back
with the science of healing?
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| 00:01:20 | I'm Dr. Esther Sternberg.
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| 00:01:22 | As a neuroimmunologist, I was
working extremely long hours,
almost never seeing the sun,
fighting to convince my
colleagues that stress could
affect the immune system...
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| 00:01:35 | and my mother was dying of
breast cancer.
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| 00:01:50 | I became a child of science
because my father was one of a
small group of scientists who
developed the field of nuclear
medicine.
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| 00:01:57 | My sister and I used to play in
my father's lab, and there was a
spiral staircase connecting my
father's lab to the labs of Hans
Selye, who coined the word
"stress."
The idea that stress could cause
illness was really ahead of its
time.
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| 00:02:15 | Can our emotions make us sick?
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| 00:02:18 | Stress has become an unrelenting
factor in our lives.
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| 00:02:23 | The American Psychological
Association estimates that
one-third of Americans are
living with extreme stress.
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| 00:02:36 | Ancient civilizations from
China, India, and Greece
embraced the premise that
emotions and health were one.
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| 00:02:47 | Worry could make you sick...
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| 00:02:50 | and belief could make you well.
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| 00:02:53 | But centuries later that link
began to unravel when visible
proof became the foundation of
the scientific method.
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| 00:03:04 | The connection between emotions
and health could not be seen and
was abandoned.
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| 00:03:11 | Today, innovative scientists,
using the latest technologies,
are reconnecting us to the
wisdom of the ages and the
brain's ability to help us heal.
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| 00:03:27 | I was under extreme stress.
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| 00:03:28 | I'd moved into a new house.
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| 00:03:30 | In fact, the day I moved, I got
the phone call to fly up to
Montreal, immediately, and that
ended up being the last three
weeks of my mother's life.
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| 00:03:40 | I was on the flight back to
Washington and one of my knees
swelled up on the plane.
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| 00:03:47 | And I thought, well, maybe I
bumped my knee, maybe I tripped.
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| 00:03:51 | I couldn't really remember
having done anything, but I just
dismissed it as having injured
myself.
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| 00:03:56 | And then, after a few days, and
a few weeks, my other knee
swelled up.
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| 00:04:01 | And then my elbows and my
shoulders started to ache.
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| 00:04:04 | And here I was a rheumatologist,
an arthritis specialist, and I
realized that I had inflammatory
arthritis.
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| 00:04:19 | My mother had just died and I
had come back to Washington,
and I felt, at that point, that
the last thing that I could deal
with was hospital.
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| 00:04:32 | And I was writing the beginning
of my first book and the
doorbell rang, and it was my new
neighbors, Dean and Taria
Papavassiliou.
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| 00:04:44 | >> Dean: When I first met
Esther, she just had moved next
to our house here in downtown
,
and we decided, my wife and I,
to go there to welcome her and
bring her some Greek food.
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| 00:04:57 | >> Sternberg: Tzatziki,
moussaka, dolmades.
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| 00:05:01 | They saw me writing on the
computer and they said, "Oh, are
you a writer?"
And I didn't really think of
myself as a writer at that time,
so I said, "Well, I don't know,
why do you ask?"
And they said, "Well, because
we've always wanted a writer to
stay at our cottage in Crete."
So I said, "I'm a writer."
♪♪ [Cretan music] ♪♪
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| 00:05:34 | The island of Crete lies about
60 miles south of the Greek
Mainland.
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| 00:05:39 | The Papavassiliou's picked me up
in the main city of Heraklion,
and we began our two-hour trek.
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| 00:05:46 | We drove over two mountain
ranges and through the valley
from the north to the south
coast of Crete.
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| 00:05:54 | The roads were hairpin turns,
they were narrow, some of them
were dirt roads, and we finally
got to the second mountain range
and they said, "There it is!"
And I looked over at this
beautiful blue Mediterranean
Sea, and a mountain jutting out
into the sea, and far, far below
was this little village, in the
bay, up against the mountain,
and that was Lentas.
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| 00:06:25 | The Papavassiliou's cottage was
the tiniest little cottage;
two rooms, with a courtyard in
between with a wonderful orange
tree.
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| 00:06:35 | The village was not more than
about ten streets, and the
stucco houses marching up the
hill.
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| 00:06:42 | So, in order to get to the sea,
you had to walk down a fairly
steep path.
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| 00:06:48 | I was still wobbly on my feet,
I was afraid to fall because I
had fallen when my knees were
particularly bad.
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| 00:07:01 | As I started to adjust to the
rhythm of the village, I could
feel the sensitivity in my
joints gradually beginning to
ease.
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| 00:07:11 | And all I'd done was take in the
light and colors around me.
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| 00:07:17 | As a scientist I began to
wonder, could looking at a
pleasing view actually reduce
pain?
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| 00:07:27 | This is a living brain.
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| 00:07:30 | In fact, it's my brain.
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| 00:07:34 | And here at the University of
Southern California's Brain
Imaging Center...
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| 00:07:39 | >> You'll see sequences that
will only have faces.
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| 00:07:43 | >> Sternberg:..Dr. irving
Biederman's groundbreaking work
on vision is opening new doors.
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| 00:07:49 | >> Dr. Irving Biederman, Prof.
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| 00:07:50 | of Neuroscience: My main area of
study is trying to understand
visual experience;
a scene, a face, or an object
that we've never experienced
before.
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| 00:07:59 | Subjects lie in the magnet and
look at scenes.
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| 00:08:03 | >> Sternberg: What do I do?
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| 00:08:04 | >> All you have to do is stand
still.
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| 00:08:06 | >> Biederman: You have four
buttons.
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| 00:08:09 | You'll be pressing the
right-most button for the scenes
you like the best.
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| 00:08:14 | The left-most button for the
scenes you like looking at
least.
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| 00:08:18 | >> Sternberg: Using powerful
electromagnets, Functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or
FMRI, reveals 3-D images of the
living brain.
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| 00:08:31 | As the subjects view images of
nature, junk cars, faces, and
city streets, the magnets scan
the brain for activity.
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| 00:08:40 | >> Biederman: What we find
is that when people are looking
at scenes that they rate as
being pleasurable, we see a high
density of the opioid receptors;
neurotransmitters that are
popularly referred to as
endorphins, that are associated
with pain relief, and in
general, a pleasurable
experience; listening to music,
viewing a great scene.
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| 00:09:04 | The more we have of it, the more
pleasure that we experience.
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| 00:09:10 | >> Sternberg: biederman's
team is using the most advanced
imaging technology, but the
first serious study
investigating the impact of
visual stimuli on pain began in
1984 at Paoli Hospital in
Pennsylvania.
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| 00:09:27 | Environmental psychologist Dr.
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| 00:09:30 | Roger Ulrich compared two groups
of patients receiving identical
care.
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| 00:09:35 | The only difference...
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| 00:09:37 | one group's hospital rooms
looked out on a brick wall,
and the other at a natural
wooded scene.
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| 00:09:45 | The results showed the natural
scene group needed half the pain
medication and were discharged
a day early.
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| 00:09:54 | This was the first scientific
proof that a visually
stimulating view was good for
you.
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| 00:10:00 | >> Biederman: So esther, this is
your brain on MRI.
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| 00:10:05 | >> Sternberg: That's amazing.
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| 00:10:06 | >> Biederman: What we can do is
take a voyage, a fantastic
voyage.
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| 00:10:10 | We can go -- let's say in this
case here, from the top of your
brain, all the way down into
your neck.
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| 00:10:16 | So, here we go.
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| 00:10:17 | Take it slowly.
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| 00:10:18 | We can get into people's heads
and see not only the structure,
but more important,
the functioning of the brain.
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| 00:10:25 | >> Sternberg: Can you see my
hypothalamus?
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| 00:10:27 | >> The hypothalamus is going to
be right around there.
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| 00:10:31 | >> Sternberg: So that's my
stress center.
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| 00:10:34 | Now we're going down into my
neck.
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| 00:10:36 | That is so cool.
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| 00:10:37 | >> You can see your teeth.
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| 00:10:40 | >> Biederman: I think you have a
cavity.
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| 00:10:42 | [laughter]
We much prefer looking at an
interesting vista than a blank
wall.
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| 00:10:48 | The blank wall will give us
almost no neural activity.
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| 00:10:51 | Something that is richly
interpreted will give us a lot
of activity.
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| 00:10:58 | When Esther had that experience
in Crete, where she was
surrounded by beauty and
captivated by what vision could
afford her, and she noticed a
reduction in arthritic symptoms,
how might that come about?
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| 00:11:13 | One of the things is pleasurable
opioid activity on perhaps the
immune system that may lead to
wellness.
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| 00:11:22 | >> Sternberg: So this is what
would be lighting up when I
was looking at a beautiful view
in Greece?
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| 00:11:26 | >> Biederman: Yes.
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| 00:11:27 | >> Sternberg: In the same way?
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| 00:11:28 | >> Biederman: I ithe same way.
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| 00:11:29 | >> Sternberg: That's amazing.
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| 00:11:30 | >> Biederman: And if you looked
at some boring scene or
something else, you'd see less
activity.
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| 00:11:34 | >> Sternberg: So this could
really explain why I enjoyed
looking at that view, and why it
made me feel peaceful.
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| 00:11:39 | Is that right?
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| 00:11:39 | >> Biederman:es.
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| 00:11:40 | >> Sternberg: That is so cool.
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| 00:11:42 | Dr. Biederman's study suggests
that pleasing views could reduce
stress, and thus support the
immune system.
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| 00:11:50 | So, when you're not feeling
well, search for the sights that
please you, sights that can be
part of your healing routine.
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| 00:12:01 | Hospitals are meant to be
healing places, but their
sterile atmospheres, colorless
walls, and overall monotony can
be both depressing and
stressful.
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| 00:12:12 | At the University of California
San Diego's High-Tech Virtual
Reality Lab, dubbed the CAVE for
its total emersion environment,
scientists are studying the
effects of building design on
the brain and the stress
response.
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| 00:12:29 | >> There's great consequence if
you can't navigate through a
hospital and find your way.
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| 00:12:35 | There's certainly a great deal
of time and money wasted.
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| 00:12:39 | We can create buildings that
serve the staff under stress,
and the patients under stress.
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| 00:12:46 | Dr. Eve Edelstein, Academy of
Neuroscience for Architecture:
Our built environments can
support our health and our
immune responses.
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| 00:12:52 | >> We're starting the navigation
protocol now.
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| 00:12:55 | Your goal will be the classroom.
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| 00:12:57 | >> Edelstein: So you can see
what we did here is create an
environment where it's absent of
visual cues to explore how the
brain responds when a person has
a sensation of feeling lost
or isn't able to use any cues to
navigation.
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| 00:13:15 | >> One of our purposes with this
kind of experiment...
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| 00:13:18 | Dr. Eduardo Macagno, Prof. of
Biological Sciences:..Is to
try to understand what works.
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| 00:13:23 | How do we design a building such
that the maximum number of
people do not get lost.
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| 00:13:33 | We're using a new technology
called high-definition
electroencephalography,
or high-definition EEG.
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| 00:13:42 | This consists of a cap that has
256 electrodes.
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| 00:13:46 | >> Sternberg: The electrodes
allow the researchers to monitor
changes in the brain as the
subject moves through the
virtual building in real time.
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| 00:13:55 | Are they stressed at feeling
lost?
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| 00:13:58 | And what visual cues work best
in helping them find their way?
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| 00:14:01 | >> Edelstein: The impact of
our built surroundings on our
state of mind can also impact
our ability to resist disease
and our immune responses.
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| 00:14:12 | >> Sternberg: I had to try this
virtual reality ride.
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| 00:14:17 | That's crazy.
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| 00:14:19 | I look gorgeous!
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| 00:14:25 | Imagine walking through every
room of a hospital or a nursing
home before a single brick is
laid.
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| 00:14:32 | >> Edelstein: Esther, let me
show you what we can do in this
cave.
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| 00:14:37 | This is a 3-D structure that we
created to demonstrate how one
can get sensation of movement
and scale inside of a building.
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| 00:14:44 | >> Sternberg: Wow!
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| 00:14:45 | Feels like I'm moving.
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| 00:14:47 | >> Edelstein: So what we did was
create a geometric structure
that's actually a mobius strip
floating over Los Angeles, and
our goal was to show how the
openings of the space and
geometries give you a sensation
of movement.
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| 00:15:00 | So here we go disappearing over
edge of the mobius.
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| 00:15:03 | >> Sternberg: This feels like
you're going down a roller
coaster.
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| 00:15:06 | >> Edelstein: We are going down
the virtual roller coaster right
now.
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| 00:15:09 | By looking at the brain's
response, we hope to understand
which cues are most effective in
forming a knowledge of where you
are in an environment, and how
we might design to help people
to better navigate through
space.
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| 00:15:23 | We've navigated to the
auditorium, which exists in this
building that we're actually
standing in, we modeled the
exact building.
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| 00:15:32 | And then as we move thorough the
auditorium, we move into the
corridor at the front, which as
you'll see, we created to be
rich with cues.
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| 00:15:41 | We want to understand the
emotional response to a place,
so we want to look at those
aspects of architecture that
inspire awe,
that inspire a sense of being
connected with the environment,
knowing where you are.
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| 00:15:56 | One of the really interesting
things we discovered as we were
testing subjects going through
this environment was that one of
the cues they were using was
light and shadow.
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| 00:16:07 | Much of my research has focused
on the influence of light on
health and the relaxing nature
of different qualities of light.
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| 00:16:16 | So it begs us to look beyond the
simple lighting that we use in
buildings, to ask what lighting
does in nature and how it
affects our health.
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| 00:16:36 | >> Sternberg: At the rady
Children's Hospital in San
Diego...
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| 00:16:45 | new open designs are giving
their young patients a place to
live...
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| 00:16:52 | >> Say hi.
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| 00:16:53 | >> Hi.
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| 00:16:54 | >> Sternberg:..As they heal.
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| 00:16:57 | I love this garden, Jeanie.
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| 00:16:59 | Can you tell me about how it
came about?
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| 00:17:01 | >> This is Carly's Garden.
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| 00:17:03 | Carly was a patient of mine who
had Leukemia...
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| 00:17:07 | Jeanie Spies, MSN:..And she
loved to be outside.
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| 00:17:11 | She loved nature, she loved
bugs.
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| 00:17:14 | Unfortunately, she was in the
hospital for a month or two at a
time, and her parents built this
garden as a tribute to her.
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| 00:17:23 | They wanted other children to
know the joy and the healing
that Carly felt when she was
outside.
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| 00:17:30 | >> Sternberg: And what a magical
tribute.
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| 00:17:32 | At Rady Hospital,
an understanding of how we heal
helps to create an environment
that lowers stress for patients
and staff, and gives the immune
system the best chance to do its
job.
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| 00:17:47 | ...That fits right with the
famous Roger Ulrich study of
healing faster and needing less
pain medication when you look
out at a beautiful view.
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| 00:17:57 | >> Spies: The patients can come
out with their moms, their dads,
sometimes they'll bring their
brothers and sisters out.
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| 00:18:02 | >> Sternberg: So they can be
children, so they can play.
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| 00:18:04 | >> Spies: Exactly.
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| 00:18:05 | >> Sternberg: That's what
children do.
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| 00:18:07 | With sunlight streaming into
every room, and a place for the
kids to play and take a break
from their pain, facilities like
Rady are moving us beyond
curing, to the mind and body
awareness of healing.
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| 00:18:24 | >> Hello everybody, I'm Donald
Thoms.
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Healing with Dr. Esther
Sternberg."
In the next part of the show, we
will explore how what we eat can
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| 00:19:49 | Sternberg.
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| 00:20:17 | Rhea.
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| 00:20:17 | >> Feikin: sternberg, thank
you so much for being with us.
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| 00:20:20 | >> Sternberg: Well, thank you.
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| 00:20:21 | It's a great pleasure.
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| 00:20:22 | >> Rhea: Now, we all know you
had a great time in Greece.
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| 00:20:25 | You didn't have to tell us that.
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| 00:20:27 | So, then you come back from
Greece and have to try to
remember that.
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| 00:20:30 | What about the rest of us who
have never been to Greece?
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| 00:20:33 | >> Sternberg: Well, at the end
show you'll see that I said to
myself that I can try to
recreate a little bit of Greece
around me where ever I am.
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| 00:20:41 | And, in fact, I did that, and
that's what the show speaks
to.
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| 00:20:45 | You can find beautiful views,
like you just saw in the
previous segment.
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smell and scents -- we're going
to hear about that in the next
segment -- that remind you of
home or comfort.
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| 00:20:58 | You can eat fresh, healthy
Mediterranean food, which is
delicious.
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| 00:21:02 | And you can do exercise.
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| 00:21:04 | And we talk about all this and
more in the show.
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| 00:21:07 | >> Feikin: I have to ask you.
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| 00:21:08 | You seemed when you went through
the different experiments that
you were just having a great
time, and I kept thinking, but
you're a physician.
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| 00:21:16 | We're they brand new to you?
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| 00:21:17 | >> Sternberg: It was amazing.
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| 00:21:19 | I thought that I was a very
controlled left brain kind of
person, you know.
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| 00:21:24 | And all this stuff -- of course
I knew this stuff, I'd read
about it, I'd studied it, I did
research on it.
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| 00:21:31 | But when you're experiencing it
yourself, it's a completely
different thing.
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| 00:21:36 | Completely different thing.
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| 00:21:37 | And I gained a huge respect for
my brain.
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| 00:21:40 | You know, what it can do.
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| 00:21:42 | The tiniest changes in your
surroundings can trigger changes
in the brain so quickly.
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| 00:21:47 | Can trigger them to either be
positive or negative.
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| 00:21:50 | So you really can structure the
surroundings to enhance that
positive feeling and those
positive emotions.
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| 00:21:58 | >> Feikin: Well, it was
wonderful watching you go
through all that.
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| 00:23:03 | Now, the difference between
these two books, Dr. Sternberg.
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| 00:23:06 | This was first, right?
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| 00:23:08 | >> Sternberg: This was first.
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| 00:23:10 | And "The Balance Within," when I
wrote that, the focus and
research was on stress and
illness.
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| 00:23:15 | And there was a lot of
information about the way the
brain and the immune system
talks to each o oer that proves
what we've all know,
what our grandmothers told us,
what we've know for thousands of
years, that stress can make you
sick, that believing can make
you well.
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| 00:23:29 | And I talk about the science
behind that and the discoveries
and how that science was done in
the first book.
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learn more about smell and how
pleasant scents can help us
heal.
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the Mediterranean diet and how
olive oil and the Mediterranean
diet can help us heal and
maintain health.
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| 00:28:11 | >> Sternberg: As I walked
through the peaceful Cretan
village of Lentas, taking in the
wonderful colors and vibrant
scenes around me, I began to
feel rested and at home.
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| 00:28:24 | Each day began with the
wonderful bouquet of eucalyptus,
sage, and orange blossoms.
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| 00:28:32 | When the seaside tavernas began
preparing lunch, the aroma of
simmering peppers, eggplants,
and fresh seafood filled the
air.
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| 00:28:42 | The arthritic pain I had when I
arrived only a few days before
was continuing to lessen,
and I felt like the fresh
aromatic breezes were lifting my
spirits.
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| 00:28:54 | And I wondered, could aromas
affect how we feel?
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| 00:29:13 | At Philadelphia's Monell
Chemical Senses Center, a team
of researchers are studying the
effects of smell on the
emotions.
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| 00:29:21 | >> Esther, if you would put your
face up to the box, I'm going to
ask Chris to turn on the first
odor.
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| 00:29:27 | You're going to begin smelling
an odor in the box.
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| 00:29:30 | I'd like you to look at that
scene and imagine you're
standing on the hill
overlooking that village.
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| 00:29:36 | Take a deep breath of the air,
and just think about how the
smell that you're smelling, and
what you're seeing, causes you
to feel.
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| 00:29:43 | >> Sternberg: It smells
wonderful.
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| 00:29:45 | >> Good.
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| 00:29:46 | Do you feel refreshed or
energized, relaxed?
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| 00:29:48 | >> Sternberg: Refreshed.
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| 00:29:50 | I mean, just looking at that
scene I felt refreshed, so I was
kind of expecting a refreshing,
clean -- it was a clean smell.
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| 00:29:57 | >> A smell that you would
associate with healthy mountain
air.
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| 00:30:01 | When an individual is in the
presence of an odor...
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| 00:30:04 | Dr. Pamela Dalton, Cognitive
Psychologist:..That they have
associated with a positive
experience, they'll often report
feeling very relaxed, their
breathing, their heart rate will
show the changes.
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| 00:30:13 | And we think under those
circumstances that they actually
may be in a better state of
health.
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| 00:30:18 | Chris will change the odor in
the box, anhe will also change
the scene.
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| 00:30:23 | What I'd like you to do is just
think about yourself standing
right where this picture was
being taken from, and imagine
how you feel about that smell
and how it's making you feel
healthwise; are you breathing
slowly? Are you breathing fast?
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| 00:30:37 | Are you trying not to smell it?
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| 00:30:40 | Think of all the things that you
might experience and how this
odor seems to you.
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| 00:30:44 | >> Sternberg: It smells
terrible.
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| 00:30:45 | It smells like burning rubber.
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| 00:30:46 | >> Dalton: In general, that
looks like a scene you might
want to get away from.
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| 00:30:49 | >> Sternberg: Right.
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| 00:30:50 | >> Dalton: And how did that odor
make you feel?
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| 00:30:52 | Different from the mountain
scene?
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| 00:30:53 | >> Sternberg: It made me feel
different.
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| 00:30:55 | The mountain scene, I felt
relaxed just before the odor
came on.
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| 00:30:58 | It felt relaxing just looking at
it.
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| 00:31:00 | It even reminded me of my
experience in Crete looking out
over the beautiful mountains.
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| 00:31:06 | This one I was braced for
expecting a pollutant kind of
odor.
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| 00:31:10 | So the smell felt more pungent
kind of.
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| 00:31:13 | >> Dalton: And what's
interesting is that it's the
exact same odor that you smelled
when you were looking at the
smoke stacks.
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| 00:31:19 | >> Sternberg: I know it's the
same, and I was bracing myself
to try to override that, but you
can't.
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| 00:31:26 | >> Dalton: One of the really
interesting things about the
sense of smell is how tightly
it's associated with memories,
particularly memories that have
a strong emotional component.
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| 00:31:37 | Odors that are associated with
your mother's cooking,
smells that are associated with
baking, in your mother's house
or grandmother's house, can
bring back that sort of warm,
nurturing feeling that you felt
as a child.
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| 00:31:52 | >> Make a rating of how intense
the odor in the room is right
now by using the mouse on the
right-hand side.
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| 00:31:57 | >> Dr. Gary Beauchamp, Dir.,
Behavioral Biologist: We have
about 350 receptors in our nose
to detect tens of thousands,
maybe even more different odors.
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| 00:32:04 | Nobody knows how many odors we
can detect.
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| 00:32:06 | And because the way the
olfactory system is connected,
it gs directly to the parts of
the brain that are emotional.
|
| 00:32:13 | >> Dalton: When I travel, i
always have a very small vial of
a fragrance that I work with
here in the laboratory, which I
happen to really love.
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| 00:32:21 | It's sort of a citrus rose
scent, and it probably reminds
me of being at work, which is a
very comfortable thing,
but also, I use it at home, and
when I travel, I tend to put a
little drop on my pillowcase
before I go to sleep in an
unfamiliar hotel.
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| 00:32:36 | And I find that just the scent
of that, when I close my eyes,
relaxes me and makes me feel
like I'm in a safe environment
and probably helps me rest a
little better.
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| 00:32:48 | >> Sternberg: With a greater
understanding of how odors,
views and memory combine to
lower the stress response, we
can create healing places that
use aroma to calm and reassure
us.
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| 00:33:02 | >> Dalton: Esther's response to
the odors and the scents that
she experienced on Crete could
have come from learned or
familiar responses to odors.
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| 00:33:12 | Some of the odors associated
with the Mediterranean cooking
were ones that she recognized
from childhood.
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| 00:33:19 | Those would have served the
purpose of bringing back that
nse of comfort and nurturing
and stress reduction.
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| 00:33:27 | >> Sternberg: A study published
in the Archives of Internal
Medicine found that the
Mediterranean diet can
strengthen our ability to resist
a variety of ailments, including
cancer and heart disease.
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| 00:33:40 | And a European study found that
the diet lowers asthma rates in
children.
|
| 00:33:47 | Using fresh and local
ingredients, the diet includes
small portions of meat,
generous amounts of fruits and
vegetables,
nuts that are low in saturated
fat,
and fish which are high in
cholesterol lowering Omega 3.
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| 00:34:04 | >> So this is a Cretan dish.
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| 00:34:06 | Tomato, in the bottom it's
bread, on the top it's Feta
Cheese, that's also sliced,
and olive oil, of course, on
top.
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| 00:34:15 | >> Food without olive oil is not
food.
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| 00:34:20 | >> Sternberg: This extra virgin
olive oil is delicious,
but could it have played a role
in reducing my pain?
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| 00:34:28 | >> Beauchamp: We had been
working on the taste of
ibuprofen -- ibuprofen is an
anti-inflammatory drug --
but when you swallow it, you get
a tremendous burn right here in
your throat.
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| 00:34:38 | And that was really interesting
because other things that burn,
like hot peppers, they burn your
mouth, they burn your eyes, they
burn your throat, they burn all
the way through.
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| 00:34:47 | But ibuprofen, for some reason,
burned only right here.
|
| 00:34:50 | I was then at a meeting and onee
of the organizers, a physicist
from Palermo, brought up his
freshly pressed olive oil from
his own olive trees.
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| 00:34:58 | I swallowed it, and lo and
behold, I had exactly the same
burn in my throat.
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| 00:35:05 | And so I had this light bulb go
off and say to myself, well, we
know that olive oil is
associaiad with the
Mediterranean diet,
we know the Mediterranean diet
is extremely healthy,
and people who consume the
Mediterranean diet have lower
levels of heart disease,
some forms of cancer,
Alzheimer's disease.
|
| 00:35:23 | We know all of those things are
also associated to some degree
with anti-inflammatory, they're
inflammatory diseases,
maybe there's something in olive
oil that is an anti-inflammatory
just like ibuprofen because it
has the same sensory properties.
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| 00:35:37 | So we proceeded then to do a
study where we first isolated
the material, we identified it,
we synthesized it, and then we
showed that indeed it is an
anti-inflammatory compound.
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| 00:35:52 | >> Sternberg: Can we toast.
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| 00:35:53 | How do you say, what do you say?
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| 00:35:55 | >> Yamis.
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| 00:35:55 | >> Sternberg: Yamis.
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| 00:35:56 | >> All: Yamis.
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| 00:36:00 | >> Welcome to Crete.
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| 00:36:09 | >> Sternberg: As my legs began
to feel stronger, I decided to
follow a path up the hill behind
the village and was astounded at
what I found...
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| 00:36:21 | the ruins of a sanctuary to
Asclepius, the Greek god of
healing.
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| 00:36:27 | For 2,400 years this marble and
stone, one of 400 healing
centers scattered throughout the
Mediterranean, has stood,
facing the sea, announcing a
refuge for the sick and
afflicted.
|
| 00:36:44 | According to Homer, Asclepius,
who began as a mortal with
infallible medical knowledge,
became revered for his healing
ability and was then worshiped
as a god.
|
| 00:37:00 | When I first came upon this
mosaic, I was completely amazed.
|
| 00:37:03 | I was not expecting anything
like this, it looked just like a
pile of rocks.
|
| 00:37:08 | And then I saw this mosaic of
the winged horse Pegasus from
the ancient myths.
|
| 00:37:12 | It turns out this was the
treasury were valuables were
stored in the temple.
|
| 00:37:18 | To understand more about this
ancient approach to healing,
I've come 150 miles west of
Athens to Epidaurus, one of the
earliest and most elaborate
Asclepians, to meet physician
and medical historian Professor
Stephanos Geroulanos.
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| 00:37:36 | >> Prof. Geroulanos: And we walk
now up to the Temple of
Asclepius.
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| 00:37:41 | The important thing in the gates
that was written was that you
have to leave all your dirty
thinking, all your dirt outside,
here you should come only with
your soul clean and clear.
|
| 00:37:55 | You can imagine how impressive
it would be for the patient
coming up the hill without
seeing anything, just nature,
and hearing the nature, and
suddenly you see this huge
temple.
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| 00:38:11 | It must have been a unique
feeling.
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| 00:38:13 | >> Sternberg: Really a sense of
awe.
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| 00:38:15 | >> Geroulanos: It is
unbelievable what an impression
would have done to the patient.
|
| 00:38:25 | We are in the theater of the
Asclepian of Epidaurus.
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| 00:38:30 | One of the most beautiful
theaters in the world.
|
| 00:38:34 | It can house approximately
14,000 spectators.
|
| 00:38:38 | When a patient comes into
performance in such a
surrounding,
his soul changes completely.
|
| 00:38:46 | His attitude to the illness
changes completely.
|
| 00:38:51 | >> Sternberg: He gets into his
emotions, out of his body.
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| 00:38:54 | >> Geroulanos: Into his emotion
and he forgets the illness.
|
| 00:38:58 | He is together with his friends,
with the family,
and they sit here, they clap,
they shout, and suddenly this
changes, especially if they are
mental illnesses or chronic
illnesses.
|
| 00:39:11 | Being together, changing your
mentality, thinking not of your
illness but of something
else...
|
| 00:39:19 | >> Sternberg: Humor and getting
into the act.
|
| 00:39:23 | >> Geroulanos: What is important
is that if you are ill and
you're going into the theatre,
you make a group that will help
you afterward, also when you're
at home because you remind of
what you have seen in Epidaurus
and then you will discuss it
with others.
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| 00:39:41 | >> Sternberg: You remember how
happy you felt, how much you
enjoyed the show.
|
| 00:39:44 | So it was really paying
attention to the emotions
not just the physical body.
|
| 00:39:48 | >> Geroulanos: A lot, a lot,
yeah.
|
| 00:39:51 | >> Sternberg: Hypocrites,
considered the father of modern
medicine, who's oath to do no
harm is still followed by
doctors, developed many of his
techniques at an Asclepian.
|
| 00:40:04 | >> Geroulanos: Hypocrites
described 60 different ways of
living.
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| 00:40:09 | >> Sternberg: 60!
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| 00:40:10 | >> Geroulanos: 60.
|
| 00:40:12 | He calls them diets, but a diet
for him is not just the
different food, but it's the
different way of exercising,
of living, sleeping, when to
repose, and what to do.
|
| 00:40:26 | Walking, extremely important as
it is today.
|
| 00:40:30 | Training, running, etcetera,
this is in the therapy.
|
| 00:40:35 | >> Sternberg: So we've
rediscovered what Hypocrites
knew so many hundreds of years
ago, that gentle walking, 30
minutes of walking a day, with
exercise, with diet, can help
reverse the negative effects of
stress on the body, can help
heal, improve mood.
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| 00:40:52 | >> Geroulanos: No doubt.
|
| 00:41:02 | >> My name is Moni Fleshner.
|
| 00:41:04 | I'm a professor in the
Department of Integrated
Physiology and the Center for
Neuroscience here at the
University of Colorado at
Boulder.
|
| 00:41:13 | I ride my bike to work every
morning.
|
| 00:41:15 | It makes an enormous difference
in my ability to be able to
cope.
|
| 00:41:19 | When I get to work I feel
energized and relaxed.
|
| 00:41:22 | I also do an incredible amount
of great thinking during that
time.
|
| 00:41:28 | We've been studying the impact
that stress has on the immune
system for many years, and we
understand a great deal about
the effects.
|
| 00:41:36 | Unbeknownst to most people,
activation of the acute stress
response is actually very
beneficial for the immune
system.
|
| 00:41:44 | It helps ready the immune
system.
|
| 00:41:46 | So, if you think about it
in an evolutionary perspective,
if you were that gazelle,
running across the savannah,
being chased by the lion, you'd
turn on the stress response so
that you could pump more blood
to your muscles, you could open
your pupils and dilate and see
what's happening around you.
|
| 00:42:03 | But you also primed certain
cells of the immune system so
that if you were wounded or
injured during that escape
response, you were better able
to survive.
|
| 00:42:14 | And that's the acute stress
response, that's the good stuff.
|
| 00:42:17 | The bad stuff is where we never
get a chance to shut it off,
or we never allow ourselves to
shut it off.
|
| 00:42:25 | Our response is exaggerated,
it persists, and that's when all
those powerful hormones become
damaging.
|
| 00:42:33 | >> Exercise is very important to
me.
|
| 00:42:36 | I was a long distance runner and
I loved it.
|
| 00:42:39 | >> Sternberg: Exercise
physiologist Dr. Patty Deuster
is working with the military to
understand depression, post
traumatic stress disorder, and
chronic fatigue syndrome.
|
| 00:42:50 | >> You're looking good.
|
| 00:42:51 | You feeling okay?
|
| 00:42:54 | Pretty soon you're going to have
to let go with your arms because
you have to walk normally.
|
| 00:43:00 | If you maintain a regular
exercise program as a soldier...
|
| 00:43:02 | Dr. Patty Deuster, Exercise
Physiologist:..Then you're
going to have better mood,
you're going to be more
resilient to the stressors that
you encounter during either your
daily life or during deployment.
|
| 00:43:12 | Maintaining top physical
condition is important because
it helps them cope with the
different stressors that they
encounter.
|
| 00:43:20 | If you are highly conditioned,
you can respond better to
psychological stressors in terms
of the physiology and the
hormonal response than somebody
who does not exercise on a
regular basis.
|
| 00:43:37 | >> Fleshner: How do you ask the
scientific question of "what
impact does stress have on the
immune system?"
It's not that simple of a
question to actually answer
because it's the hormones and
the neurotransmitters that are
released that interact with
those cells of the immune system
to change their function.
|
| 00:43:56 | When we first began these
experiments, I was simply
amazed.
|
| 00:43:59 | All we did is, for our
laboratory rats, all we did was
make one small change in their
environment.
|
| 00:44:05 | In one instance they were able
to live in their home cages with
a running wheel.
|
| 00:44:10 | And in the other group, the
animals did not get a mobile
running wheel.
|
| 00:44:14 | And the animals who get to run
on these wheels, and they choose
to do it every night, they find
it a pleasurable experience,
were much better able to resist
the negative impact that stress
has on the immune system, on the
brain.
|
| 00:44:28 | When we look in the brains of
the rats, we can actually
measure detectable changes, both
in the expression of receptors,
the expression of transporters
for specific neurotransmitters
and activation, neural
activation markers.
|
| 00:44:42 | And when you examine the whole
circuitry in total, what that
tells us is that the brains of
these animals have been
structurally changed.
|
| 00:44:53 | After completing our series of
animal studies, we were able to
tablish that, indeed,
physically fit people are also
better able to maintain healthy
immune responses.
|
| 00:45:09 | >> Deuster: So I'm very
impressed with your heart rate
today, the results of your heart
rate, because they're much
better than they were the last
time you were here.
|
| 00:45:17 | That's great.
|
| 00:45:17 | >> Sternberg: Ever since I went
to Greece, I really have made an
effort to exercise, a conscious
effort to exercise, and what I
do mostly is swim.
|
| 00:45:27 | I swim up to sometimes five
days a week, sometimes everyday,
it depends on the season, but I
swim about three to five days a
week.
|
| 00:45:36 | And no matter how I feel before,
I feel better, my mood is
better.
|
| 00:45:42 | I'd say after about 20 minutes,
I swim for half an hour,
30 to 40 minutes,
and after about 20 minutes
whatever was bothering me before
just goes away, it melts in the
water, and then I feel more
energy.
|
| 00:45:55 | It doesn't feel like work
because it's relaxing.
|
| 00:46:00 | >> Deuster: When esther was in
Crete and she started
exercising, that was something
new to her because she was
previously sedentary, and that
regular physical activity did
wonders for her.
|
| 00:46:11 | She was swimming in the ocean,
she was walking.
|
| 00:46:15 | She was doing activities that
are so good for the body,
and really for the mind.
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| 00:46:20 | And as the American College of
Medicine says, "Exercise is
Medicine."
If you take exercise as medicine
it can actually start the
healing process
>> Fleshner: I think everybody
should try to maintain regular
daily physical activity.
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| 00:46:39 | TTre's no doubt in mind that
maintaining some level of
regular physical activity helps
both mentally as well as
physically.
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| 00:46:47 | I think it irrefutable.
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| 00:46:50 | Esther's arthritis is a disease
that does involve disregulation
of the immune system.
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| 00:46:57 | Her exercise, her daily walks
and swims, had a double whammy
impact on her disease process.
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| 00:47:03 | Not only did it potentially
facilitate her overall health so
she could better respond to the
disease process, but it could
have also changed her ability to
cope with the stress of the
situation, and in turn that
helped to quiet her inflammatory
process.
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"The Science of Healing with
Dr. Esther Sternberg."
Now, in the next part of the
show we're going to see how
there's a very strong connection
between the music that we listen
to and our overall health.
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| 00:47:46 | This exciting program is showing
us some of the many ways that
our brain helps us heal, both
emotionally and physically.
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| 00:47:54 | Now, if we understand the
science behind the brain's role
in healing, we can take charge
of our own health and create a
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| 00:49:37 | >> Thoms: Such a fascinating
show.
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| 00:49:39 | >> Sternberg: Oh, thank you.
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| 00:49:40 | >> Thoms: And what -- the
genesis behind doing it for
television is what?
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| 00:49:43 | >> Sternberg: Well, actually
it was a wonderful e-mail that I
received from my producers.
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| 00:49:48 | The subject line was "Emmy
award-winning television
producers want to do a show
based on your book."
>> Thoms: That got you.
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| 00:49:55 | >> Sternberg: Well, it got me.
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| 00:49:56 | I didn't know if it was real or
not, but when I figured out it
was real, I said, this is really
cool.
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| 00:50:02 | They had heard me on NPR radio
actually, talking about my
experience in Greece and how it
helped me heal.
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| 00:50:07 | >> Thoms: So tell me, how are
you now?
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| 00:50:08 | How is the arthritis now?
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| 00:50:09 | >> Sternberg: It's fine.
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| 00:50:11 | I know what to do to prevent it,
I know what will trigger it,
and I avoid doing those things.
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| 00:50:17 | And I make a conscious effort to
swim everyday, to walk a little
if I can't swim.
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| 00:50:23 | To keep myself in shape, to eat
a healthy diet.
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| 00:50:26 | All the things that we talk
about on the show.
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| 00:50:29 | And it really, really helps.
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| 00:50:31 | And, you know, I'm a living
testament to how that can help.
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| 00:50:35 | >> Thoms: The bump between the
mind and body has been going on
for a long time about how the
mind can help control the body.
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| 00:50:42 | I produced a show once about
healing and prayer, and it was
fascinating that if people knew
they were being prayed for, they
got better.
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| 00:50:51 | They just knew, up here in the
mind knew, and it was helping
them heal.
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| 00:50:55 | Is that what you're finding?
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| 00:50:57 | >> Sternberg: Well, so, in the
second book, in "Healing
Spaces," I go into a lot more
detail than I did in the first
book on that, and you'll see in
the next segment of the show we
talk about that; how belief can
help you heal.
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| 00:51:10 | And there's, there's a lot of
science behind that.
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| 00:51:12 | We're now beginning, just
beginning to understand there
are changes in the brain,
in positive brain pathways,
in those endorphin pathways that
you heard about, when you are
praying, when you are believing
in something.
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| 00:51:24 | So there's a very real effect on
the brain and on the body that
can help you heal.
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| 00:51:29 | >> Thoms: I just think it's
fascinating.
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| 00:52:36 | >> Sternberg: Well, the first
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and illness, and on the
discoveries of the connection
between the brain and the immune
system; how the brain talks to
the immune system and the immune
system talks back.
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| 00:52:47 | >> Thoms: Was that more
technical?
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| 00:52:49 | >> Sternberg: No, they're both
for the lay public.
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public.
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| 00:52:53 | But the first was written when
the discoveries about stress and
the immune system were the
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the show; about changing
what you see, the beautiful
views, the beautiful smells, how
you can create your own place of
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| 00:53:19 | >> Thoms: And, of course, that
whole section, that's coming up
in the next section as a matter
of fact.
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| 00:56:39 | >> Thoms: sternberg, one
thing that you really wanted to
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| 00:56:43 | >> Sternberg: Absolutely!
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public that there is a science
behind all of the things that
we're re talking about.
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yourself.
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understand how that works.
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| 00:56:55 | And I wanted to help people.
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help themselves.
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| 00:56:59 | >> Thoms: The next segment, you
do talk about meditation, which
I do like.
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| 00:57:02 | >> Sternberg: Yes.
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| 00:57:03 | >> Thoms: What is it about
meditation that helps us so
much?
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| 00:57:05 | >> Sternberg: Well, meditation
changes, actually changes brain
pathways.
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| 00:57:09 | It shifts your brain.
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| 00:57:10 | It downshifts your brain from
that stress mode where you're
throttling down the highway at
120 miles an hour to a
relaxation pattern.
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| 00:57:17 | And it turns on positive brain
hormones and nerve chemicals and
it gets you into a different
state of mind, which is healthy.
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| 00:57:24 | >> Thoms: Yeah, I was just
listening to it.
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| 00:57:26 | It's the fact that you actually
are listening to you breathe in
and breathe out.
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| 00:57:28 | Disassociate yourself with the
stress that's going on.
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| 00:57:30 | >> Sternberg: Right.
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| 00:57:31 | >> Thoms: Just amazing.
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| 00:58:06 | Thank you.
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| 00:58:18 | >> I'm Dr. Esther Sternberg.
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| 00:58:20 | My very active life as a
scientist was challenged by
living day to day with painful
inflammatory arthritis,
as well as dealing with my
mother's death.
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| 00:58:32 | It was an unexpected invitation
to visit Crete that gave me the
chance to slow down and think
about how I was living.
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| 00:58:42 | With each day in Lentas,
sight of a sanctuary to
Asclepius, the Greek God of
healing,
the arthritic pain in my knees
was subsiding.
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| 00:58:54 | The therapeutic effects of
exercise, visually stimulating
surroundings, and the
Mediterranean diet was helping
me heal.
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| 00:59:16 | ♪♪ [Cretan music playing] ♪♪
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| 00:59:22 | I joined in a favorite village
activity; listening and dancing
to music.
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| 00:59:30 | It didn't seem to matter if I
was tired, hot, or hungry,
I could listen for hours.
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| 00:59:37 | I wondered, why did music make
me feel so good?
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| 00:59:51 | >> Music can serve as a stress
buffer, it can relieve stress.
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| 00:59:56 | Dr. Julian Thayer,
Psychophysiologist: It can take
you out of your stressful day to
day life and transport you to a
dream world, so to speak, where
life is beautiful.
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| 01:00:07 | It's, I think, an extremely
healthy phenomena.
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| 01:00:10 | ♪♪♪♪
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| 01:00:13 | >> Sternberg: Julian thayer did
not start out as a
psychophysiologist, he started
out as a musician.
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| 01:00:22 | And he began to wonder why it is
that music had such a profound
effect on his emotions, and on
the emotions of people who
listened to his music.
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| 01:00:34 | >> Thayer: Music is a very
powerful force in our lives.
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| 01:00:37 | It has endured, and is in every
culture, everywhere, used in all
kinds of situations.
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| 01:00:41 | When I was in music school, I
was a composition major, and I
was told by my music composition
teachers, if you write music
this way people will feel a
certain emotion.
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| 01:00:50 | But the music that Scott and
myself were playing broke all
the rules of western music.
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| 01:00:55 | So the question for me became;
what are people actually
responding to?
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| 01:01:00 | What I discovered was that the
same parameters of sound that
produce mood effects in music,
were present in paralinguistic
speech, in what's called
mother-ese; talking to babies,
and in animal communications.
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| 01:01:14 | So the same exact parameters
produced the same emotions
across species.
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| 01:01:19 | >> Sternberg: thayer uses
changes in heart rate
variability to track how the
listener is responding to music.
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| 01:01:27 | Heart rate is the number of
beats per minute, while heart
rate variability is how the rate
changes over time.
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| 01:01:35 | >> Thayer: When you inhale, your
heart rate increases,
and when you exhale, it
decreases.
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| 01:01:41 | And this is due to both the
neural and mechanical gating of
the nerve called the Vegas
nerve.
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| 01:01:47 | And this Vegas nerve controls
the heart, among other things.
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| 01:01:51 | Sensory information from all of
your body is sent via this nerve
to the brain, and it senses
wounds and other invaders and
signals immune information to
the brain.
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| 01:02:02 | ♪♪♪♪
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| 01:02:07 | The main purpose of the heart is
to pump blood to various places
where it's needed to support the
production of the sound.
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| 01:02:15 | From a listener's perspective,
heart rate variability tracks,
in part, the mood effects of
music.
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| 01:02:24 | ♪♪♪♪
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| 01:02:33 | Esther, while you were listening
to Scott playing, your heart
rate was very low.
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| 01:02:38 | >> Sternberg: Yeah, I can see a
dip.
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| 01:02:40 | I can see it.
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| 01:02:41 | That's amazing.
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| 01:02:42 | >> Thayer: Yes, exactly.
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| 01:02:42 | >> Sternberg: That is really
cool.
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| 01:02:44 | >> Thayer: So, he's playing a
very relaxing piece of music.
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| 01:02:45 | >> Sternberg: And now look at
how high it is.
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| 01:02:47 | >> Thayer: That's right.
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| 01:02:47 | >> Sternberg: You're stressing
me out.
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| 01:02:51 | >> Thayer: When you become sick,
physically or mentally, your
heart rate variability tends to
go down.
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| 01:02:57 | Heart rate variability says a
lot about the state of the
organism.
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| 01:03:02 | And in safe, non-threatening
environments, heart rate
variability is relatively high,
indicating that the organism is
open to new experiences and
enjoyment.
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| 01:03:13 | High hehet rate variability is
associated with health.
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| 01:03:17 | When you become sick, physically
or mentally, your heart rate
variability tends to go down,
and when you get better it tends
to go back up again.
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| 01:03:26 | And, in fact, the decrease in
heart rate variability may
precede the onset of clinical
signs of illness.
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| 01:03:33 | ♪♪♪♪
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| 01:03:34 | There's a lot of work in music
therapy, you can see the effects
on people's level of depression,
on their blood pressure.
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| 01:03:41 | The fact that it has endured
really speaks to the fact that
music is a very powerful force
in our lives.
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| 01:03:47 | >> Sternberg: Music's effect on
the rhythms of the heart is one
pathway into healing,
but what role do thoughts and
beliefs have on the process?
|
| 01:03:57 | >> On this patch of skin, this
is the Lidocaine cream.
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| 01:04:00 | This is a highly effective pain
reliever.
|
| 01:04:03 | And the purpose of today's test
is to understand how this is
going to affect your brain's
responses to the pain.
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| 01:04:09 | >> Sternberg: A placebo is an
inactive substance used as a
control in a test or study to
help determine the effectiveness
of a drug.
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| 01:04:16 | >> Rate the pain that you feel
on the one to eight scale that
we talked about.
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| 01:04:23 | Dr. Tor Wager, Asst. Prof. of
Psychology: The placebo has this
connotation of a fraudulent or
sham treatment.
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| 01:04:30 | Placebo effects have nothing
to do with being fooled,
they have to do with your
brain's memory for particular
cues, particular treatments,
particular sensory experiences,
sights, smells, tastes and the
therapeutic effect.
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| 01:04:44 | Okay?
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| 01:04:44 | >> A four.
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| 01:04:47 | >> Sternberg: wager
administers a manageable shock
to the subject and gets a
baseline reading.
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| 01:04:52 | >> Wager: This is the lidocaine
cream.
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| 01:04:55 | >> Sternberg: The subject is
then given a cream and told it
will lessen the pain.
|
| 01:05:01 | The MRI scans the brain as the
same shock is given again.
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| 01:05:06 | >> Wager: Steve, what's your
overall experience of the pain
so far.
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| 01:05:09 | >> Steve: I've felt very little
pain so far, other times I
didn't feel anything at all.
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| 01:05:17 | >> Sternberg: The mri shows
changes in the brain's opioid
pathways, which alter pain
perception based on what the
subject believes.
|
| 01:05:28 | It has been said that about 30
to 50, or even more, percent of
the effect of any biological
cure is related to the placebo
effect.
|
| 01:05:41 | A drug that has the ability to
heal of about 30 to 50% would be
a very powerful drug.
|
| 01:05:53 | So the placebo effect really is
a very powerful effect.
|
| 01:05:58 | And what it is, it's the brain's
own healing mechanism.
|
| 01:06:04 | It's not just the placebo
effect, it is a real effect.
|
| 01:06:09 | It is the result of changes in
the brain that allow the body to
heal.
|
| 01:06:29 | Belief was essential upon
entering the Asclepian temples.
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| 01:06:34 | Those who did, expected to be
cured, surrendering to ritual
through purification, animal
sacrifice, prayer, and eventual
sleep.
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| 01:06:45 | Priests offered intense
suggestions to the pilgrims, for
when they awoke, they believed
they had seen a god in theirr
dreams who had cured them.
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| 01:06:54 | Deeply surrendering to the god's
healing powers may have
accounted for the many
successful outcomes.
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| 01:07:12 | At the end of one of my walks I
came to the top of this hill and
found this tiny chapel built on
the top of the ruins of a temple
to Asclepius, the Greek god of
healing.
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| 01:07:26 | And I would sit in the doorway
of the chapel and quietly
contemplate,
look at the sea and listen to
the sounds of the wind, and the
goats and the sheep.
|
| 01:07:48 | >> Dr. Richard Davidson, Prof.
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| 01:07:50 | of Psychology & Psychiatry: I've
been meditating for more than 30
years.
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| 01:07:55 | I feel it's been a very
important part of my life.
|
| 01:07:59 | It's helped me preserve a
modicum of equanimity in the
face of leading a very active
and challenging life as a very
engaged scientist.
|
| 01:08:10 | >> Sternberg: In his
groundbreaking research with
Tibetan monks,
Dr. Richie Davidson studied the
effects of meditation on the
brain.
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| 01:08:19 | >> Davidson: We're really
entering a new era now and it
represents, I think, the first
rigorous effort to
systematically investigate the
neuroscientific underpinnings of
meditation.
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| 01:08:35 | These are individuals who can be
considered the Olympic athletes
of mediation.
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| 01:08:41 | They are people who have devoted
tens of thousands of hours to
this practice.
|
| 01:08:47 | We're investigating the changes
in the brain that occur during
different kinds of meditation
practices and how those changes
modulate things like pain
perception, attention, the
regulation of emotion.
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| 01:09:03 | There are many different kinds
of meditation practices that do
not involve any Sanskrit word,
that can be as simple as pay
attention to the sensations of
breathing, either in your
abdomen or around the tip of
your nostril, and just pay
attention with each inhalation
and exhalation.
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| 01:09:25 | Paying attention to the breath
in some sense is difficult
because we are distracted a lot.
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| 01:09:31 | Noticing each distraction is
actually a wonderful opportunity
to bring the mind back to the
breath.
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| 01:09:39 | >> Sternberg: To test for
discernible physical evidence of
the immune system's reaction to
meditation, Dr. Davidson's team
tracked two groups receiving flu
shots.
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| 01:09:49 | One group meditating 30 minutes
a day for two months, while the
other did not.
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| 01:09:55 | >> Davidson: By looking at the
antibody titers that are mounted
in response to the vaccine, one
of the things that we noticed is
that after just two months of
training compared to a control
group, the antibody titers to
the flu vaccine were boosted
significantly.
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| 01:10:12 | The magnitude of change in the
immune response, the magnitude
of the boost, was predicted by
how much the brain changed by
meditation.
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| 01:10:24 | I think everyone can do this for
10 minutes a day, most days.
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| 01:10:30 | It's just a question of making
this more of a priority.
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| 01:10:41 | >> Sternberg: At the national
Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,
a timeless tradition continues.
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| 01:10:50 | Walking a labyrinth is a
beautiful moving meditation that
combines the beneficial elements
of gentle exercise and deep
breathing, which introduce
calming endorphins into the
nervous system and directs
attention away from the
stressors of the day.
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| 01:11:11 | >> Dr. Ann Berger, Chief of Pain
and Palliative Care, NIH: When I
walk labyrinths I just feel more
centered.
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| 01:11:19 | It's a time of focused
attention, not only physical
quiet, but a emotional,
spiritual quiet.
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| 01:11:27 | >> Sternberg: ann berger,
a pioneer in pain and palliative
care, brings a holistic approach
to her work with life
threatening and chronic illness.
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| 01:11:38 | >> Berger: I have had the
experience of feeling healed.
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| 01:11:42 | I myself at the age of 40 had
breast cancer, and actually two
years ago had major heart
surgery.
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| 01:11:50 | Three days after developing
breast cancer I had back pain,
so I went for acupuncture.
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| 01:11:57 | Never felt better in my life.
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| 01:12:00 | Before my heart surgery I went
for acupuncture again to get my
mind, body and spirit connected.
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| 01:12:15 | Healing is what we do in
palliative care.
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| 01:12:19 | With healing being a sense of
wholeness, we hear people many
times with life threatening
illness or chronic illness
saying that they still have
their illness, but they've
actually grown from the
experience.
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| 01:12:34 | They feel healed.
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| 01:12:47 | >> Sternberg: Watching the
fishermen going out in their
wooden boats, how they wake up
with the sun, and they go out
and they work hard, and they
exercise, and they come back and
they eat heartily, and they live
according to the rhythms of the
day, and the rhythms of the
seasons.
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| 01:13:07 | And I realized that I had not
been living that way.
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| 01:13:14 | I couldn't remember having seen
the sun, or stopping to breathe,
or stopping to inhale the scent
of flowers on the night air the
way I did when I was in Greece.
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| 01:13:28 | I had of course been treated for
my arthritis with
anti-inflammatory medication
back in Washington,
but my arthritis wasn't really
getting better.
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| 01:13:41 | It only started to get better
when I was in Crete.
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| 01:13:46 | And I became convinced that it
wasn't a coincidence that I got
arthritis when I was going
through a period of stress,
and it wasn't a coincidence that
it started getting better when I
finally allowed myself to heal.
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| 01:14:07 | I decided to change my life.
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| 01:14:10 | I decided I can do this when I
get home.
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| 01:14:14 | I can swim everyday.
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| 01:14:16 | I can walk a little bit
everyday.
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| 01:14:18 | I can eat this wonderful
Mediterranean food.
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| 01:14:22 | I didn't have to be in Greece.
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| 01:14:24 | But what Greece did for me is it
showed me the way.
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| 01:14:29 | It showed me that I could change
my life, and that if I did
change my life, I would feel
better.
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| 01:14:38 | With science's ability to more
fully understand the workings of
the brain and the mind/body
connection, the wisdom of the
ages is provingngo be an
important part of our ability to
reduce stress,
strengthen the immune system,
and heal.
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| 01:15:05 | >> What a wonderful program.
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us the different ways in which
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environment to improve our
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And now let's go over to Rhea
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Sternberg.
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| 01:16:41 | >> Feikin: sternberg, I have
to ask you one question.
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| 01:16:44 | I mean, despite that fact that
somebody might try to do all
these things and feel that their
life is not filled with stress
and then they get ill, how do
they -- they shouldn't feel
guilty, should they?
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| 01:16:55 | >> Sternberg: No, I don't want
anybody to have the impression
that they should feel guilty.
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| 01:16:59 | If you get sick it's not your
fault.
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| 01:17:02 | It's your biology.
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| 01:17:02 | It's your genes.
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| 01:17:03 | You didn't do it yourself.
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| 01:17:05 | And also, I don't want people to
think that they can throw away
the space-age medicine and
treatments that are so important
that have really improved our
health.
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| 01:17:13 | But we can integrate into our
lives.
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| 01:17:15 | In fact, there's a filed called
Integrative Medicine, where we
can integrate all those things
that we talked about;
meditation, beautiful views,
healthy diet, exercise, music.
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| 01:17:26 | We can integrate all that into
our lives to help us heal, and
to help our bodies receive
those space-age medications that
are so important.
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| 01:17:36 | >> Feikin: I think that's the
key, the last thing you said.
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| 01:17:40 | I mean, you've got to get your
body ready to take advantage of
those space-age medicines.
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| 01:17:45 | >> Sternberg: Exactly.
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| 01:17:47 | If you keep on doing -- this is
what I realized, that if I kept
on doing to myself, what I was
doing was stress, I was not
allowing my body to heal.
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| 01:17:56 | I didn't throw away my
anti-arthritis medications, I
keep taking them, but I allowed
my body to heal by incorporating
all of these factors into my
life.
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| 01:18:06 | >> Feikin: So, if someone is
watching this program, if
someone has your book,
even in the simplest ways they
can change their environment and
their life.
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| 01:18:16 | >> Sternberg: Yes.
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| 01:18:18 | So you can do things around your
home to create a quite place.
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| 01:18:21 | A place of peace where you can
meditate.
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| 01:18:24 | Where you can have a little bit
of time to contemplate and get
away from all those stresses of
your lives.
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| 01:18:30 | It can be as small as a chair in
front of the fireplace,
or a garden.
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| 01:18:35 | If it's a garden, you can make
sure you have blossoms, flowers
that smell so you can have
scents that are soothing and
calming.
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| 01:18:43 | >> Feikin: Or even bring a
bouquet of flowers into your
home...
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| 01:18:45 | >> Sternberg: Yes.
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| 01:18:46 | >> Feikin:..And put it in a
vase and have it to look at.
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| 01:18:48 | >> Sternberg: And that creates a
beautiful view.
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| 01:18:51 | If you don't have a beautiful
view out the window, you can
have a beautiful favorite
painting.
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| 01:18:57 | You can just pay attention to
all of your senses and try to
recreate it in your tiny space
around you because the most
powerful healing organ in our
body is our mind.
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| 01:19:06 | >> Feikin: Well, having said
that, I want to remind you once
again that we have some great
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level, the "Healing spaces"
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and underline, I like to see
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| 01:20:04 | >> Sternberg: I want people to
know that they can create a
place of healing.
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| 01:20:09 | That they can integrate all of
their space-age medicine, all of
the treatments that they are
getting from their doctors,
together with things that they
can do for themselves to help
them heal.
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| 01:20:20 | >> Feikin: I think that's
wonderful.
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| 01:23:49 | >> Feikin: sternberg, you
work all the time, you are a
physician, you are a scientist,
you're in the lab.
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| 01:23:55 | You do all that.
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| 01:23:57 | You've written books.
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| 01:23:58 | You've been on national
television.
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| 01:24:00 | Why'd you decide to do this for
public television?
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| 01:24:04 | >> Sternberg: I wanted to reach
as many viewers as I could to
help them, really to help
people, and to show the science
behind what we all have been
told, what we believe in, but
that there really is a science
behind it.
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| 01:24:18 | And I wanted to get that point
across to the public.
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| 01:24:21 | I think, you know, public
education is public health,
and I'm very committed to that,
with my books and with the show.
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| 01:24:29 | And I think PBS can do it better
than anybody.
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| 01:24:32 | >> Feikin: And it's kind of
wonderful that anybody who has a
television set is able to get
all this information from a
program like yours.
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| 01:24:41 | You really are giving a gift
to anybody who is watching
right now.
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| 01:24:46 | >> Sternberg: And our goal was
to do that.
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| 01:24:48 | And to do it in a way that is
exciting, and compelling, and
interesting, and not boring --
not that you have to listen to a
lecture in order to pass an
exam -- but to really enjoy and
learn at the same time.
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| 01:25:00 | >> Feikin: But you didn't talk
down.
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| 01:25:02 | >> Sternberg:..
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| 01:25:03 | >> Feikin: That was what was
great.
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| 01:25:05 | I mean, we learned so much, but
at the same time, when you
talked to different
professionals, different
scientists, we got a real
glimpse of what goes on behind
the scenes.
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| 01:25:16 | >> Sternberg: Well, I'm glad.
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| 01:25:17 | That was really one of our goals
as well, is to show that the
scientists who've done this
research, and who've made these
discoveries, they're real
people, I'm a real person, you
know.
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| 01:25:26 | >> Feikin: Honest to goodness.
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| 01:25:29 | >> Sternberg: And we're all
driven by, not only curiosity,
but by a desire to help.
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| 01:25:35 | We want to help people.
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| 01:25:37 | And we want to find out.
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| 01:25:38 | We want to get to the bottom of
it.
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| 01:25:42 | And so we're all real people.
|
| 01:25:43 | And you can see in each of the
scientists who we highlighted,
they each do what they do
research about.
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| 01:25:51 | They have been driven by, you
know, Dr. Thayer, the love of
music.
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| 01:25:56 | Dr. Berger having walked the
labyrinth herself.
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| 01:26:00 | Dr. Fleshner, you know, the
exercise physiologist,
and so on.
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| 01:26:05 | Every single one of them has
lived that life that they
research.
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| 01:26:11 | >> Feikin: And have given you
all this information so that
even if you forget, don't you,
like all of us, have to reassess
and go over these things and
make sure we're still doing
them.
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| 01:26:21 | >> Sternberg: Yes, it is an
effort, but I do make a
conscious effort.
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| 01:26:26 | Before this experience, before
the experience in Crete,
I didn't make a conscious effort
to readjust my schedule, to
prioritize, to exercise.
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| 01:26:35 | I did not make a conscious
effort to exercise.
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| 01:26:38 | And now I do.
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| 01:26:38 | And it makes a difference.
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| 01:26:40 | It makes me feel better.
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| 01:26:41 | >> Feikin: Well, it makes us all
feel better.
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| 01:26:44 | And I feel enriched and
enlivened by all this, and I
hope you do, too.
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| 01:26:49 | I hope you know that if you make
a pledge of $90 you can get a
DVD of "The Science of Healing,"
which includes extended
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| 01:26:57 | For $120, we're going to send
you the "Healing Spaces"
hardcover book.
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| 01:27:01 | At $200, "The Science of
Healing" combo, which includes
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Within" softcover book.
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| 01:27:11 | Please ask your operator about
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| 01:27:16 | >> Thoms: You know, I think it's
great that when I watch the
program and I think about all
the things that I learned, and I
learned a lot, but that whole
thing about Ibuprofen and olive
oil, that's amazing.
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| 01:27:24 | >> Sternberg: Isn't that great.
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| 01:27:25 | That is so cool.
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| 01:27:26 | >> Feikin: That's just one of
the many, many things here.
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| 01:27:29 | I am afraid that we have run out
of time.
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| 01:27:31 | We want to thank you so much
Dr. Sternberg.
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| 01:27:32 | >> Sternberg: It's been a
pleasure, really.
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| 01:27:34 | >> Feikin: And we want to thank
you because you've been a great
audience.
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