Dr. Ellen Langer
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No, no, no, no.
That's a good question, but I'm going to go there.
I don't know how it happened.
Here, the point for me was by looking in my eye,
She knew there was something in other parts of my body that were not right.
And what people don't realize is that every thought, if I lift my arm, my whole body is different.
Different in tiny ways that we haven't been able to measure, but it's all connected.
And which, in some sense, lends more credence to this whole idea of mind-body unity.
And the first study we did was a study where we took old men to a retreat that we had retrofitted to 20 years earlier.
Right.
What was this called again?
We called it the counterclockwise study.
Yes.
So they were going to live for a week as if they were their younger selves.
And they were in their late 70s, 80s?
Yeah, even older.
80s, 90s.
Now remember, that was quite a while ago.
That was when 70 was in the new 90, or even 100 or whatever.
I mean, they were really old.