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Dr. Ellen Langer

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Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

In fact, I ended my Counterclockwise book with a conversation I was having with a friend who was 90-something. And she said, you know, Ellen, I'm not afraid of dying, but living is such fun. And I think that that's the way most of us should be. Mm-hmm.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

In fact, I ended my Counterclockwise book with a conversation I was having with a friend who was 90-something. And she said, you know, Ellen, I'm not afraid of dying, but living is such fun. And I think that that's the way most of us should be. Mm-hmm.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

In fact, I ended my Counterclockwise book with a conversation I was having with a friend who was 90-something. And she said, you know, Ellen, I'm not afraid of dying, but living is such fun. And I think that that's the way most of us should be. Mm-hmm.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

But there's something I wanted to say that we touched on before, and I don't think—it's not really relevant now, but you'll find a way to—I'll find a way to make it relevant—about spontaneous remissions. You know, I said that with my mother there was a spontaneous remission, and the medical world can't study spontaneous remissions or doesn't study—so they seem infrequent.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

But there's something I wanted to say that we touched on before, and I don't think—it's not really relevant now, but you'll find a way to—I'll find a way to make it relevant—about spontaneous remissions. You know, I said that with my mother there was a spontaneous remission, and the medical world can't study spontaneous remissions or doesn't study—so they seem infrequent.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

But there's something I wanted to say that we touched on before, and I don't think—it's not really relevant now, but you'll find a way to—I'll find a way to make it relevant—about spontaneous remissions. You know, I said that with my mother there was a spontaneous remission, and the medical world can't study spontaneous remissions or doesn't study—so they seem infrequent.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And I think, you know, that— How frequent does something have to be to give people a sense of hope that it's possible? You know, I don't think it has to be an everyday occurrence. Of course, the more frequent it is, the more likely. But when I think about spontaneous remissions, I personally think that they're much more common than the medical world. It's likely to believe.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And I think, you know, that— How frequent does something have to be to give people a sense of hope that it's possible? You know, I don't think it has to be an everyday occurrence. Of course, the more frequent it is, the more likely. But when I think about spontaneous remissions, I personally think that they're much more common than the medical world. It's likely to believe.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And I think, you know, that— How frequent does something have to be to give people a sense of hope that it's possible? You know, I don't think it has to be an everyday occurrence. Of course, the more frequent it is, the more likely. But when I think about spontaneous remissions, I personally think that they're much more common than the medical world. It's likely to believe.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Once you're in a hospital, life is very different from the way your health is once you're out of the hospital. I don't mean that you're sick in one case and not sick in the other. But the attention that's given to it, the degree to which things become self-fulfilling prophecies,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Once you're in a hospital, life is very different from the way your health is once you're out of the hospital. I don't mean that you're sick in one case and not sick in the other. But the attention that's given to it, the degree to which things become self-fulfilling prophecies,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Once you're in a hospital, life is very different from the way your health is once you're out of the hospital. I don't mean that you're sick in one case and not sick in the other. But the attention that's given to it, the degree to which things become self-fulfilling prophecies,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I think that if you believe that cancer is a killer, which is what people used to believe, then I think there are many ways that the cancer becomes a death sentence. Even in a very mundane way, if you think you're going to die, you don't do those things that keep you alive. You're not going to go out and get exercise, for example, if you thought that was good for you. I'm going to die anyway.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I think that if you believe that cancer is a killer, which is what people used to believe, then I think there are many ways that the cancer becomes a death sentence. Even in a very mundane way, if you think you're going to die, you don't do those things that keep you alive. You're not going to go out and get exercise, for example, if you thought that was good for you. I'm going to die anyway.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I think that if you believe that cancer is a killer, which is what people used to believe, then I think there are many ways that the cancer becomes a death sentence. Even in a very mundane way, if you think you're going to die, you don't do those things that keep you alive. You're not going to go out and get exercise, for example, if you thought that was good for you. I'm going to die anyway.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

These super agers, the people that fall into that category. I hate that. No, I'm serious. Super memorizers, super tasters. As soon as we make a group of people the super group – That says that whatever they're able to do is not available to everybody else. And I don't think that there's any evidence for that. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

These super agers, the people that fall into that category. I hate that. No, I'm serious. Super memorizers, super tasters. As soon as we make a group of people the super group – That says that whatever they're able to do is not available to everybody else. And I don't think that there's any evidence for that. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

These super agers, the people that fall into that category. I hate that. No, I'm serious. Super memorizers, super tasters. As soon as we make a group of people the super group – That says that whatever they're able to do is not available to everybody else. And I don't think that there's any evidence for that. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

You know that there was a story way back when. So there's this mental facility and people are on what's in their vernacular called the hopeless ward. And then they wanted to renovate the ward so they move all of the people. So you're in the hopeless ward. Now you're in a hopeful, you know, without it being called that.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

You know that there was a story way back when. So there's this mental facility and people are on what's in their vernacular called the hopeless ward. And then they wanted to renovate the ward so they move all of the people. So you're in the hopeless ward. Now you're in a hopeful, you know, without it being called that.