Dr. Ellen Langer

And they're just too tired after work.

Study was so simple, as many of these are my studies, we just taught them that their work is exercise.

So making a bed is like working on this machine at the gym, sweeping.

And so now we have two groups.

One group that doesn't realize their work is exercise.

One group that now sees that their work is exercise.

We take many measures.

Turns out they're not working any differently.

These two different views.

They're not eating any differently.

All that's changed is their mindset.

now work as exercise.

As a result of that change, they lost weight, there was a change in waist to hip ratio, body mass index, and their blood pressure came down.

Wow.

So our thoughts matter.

I'll go to the very present because there's so many things for us to talk about.

I did this study recently with my graduate student, Peter Ungle, and it's a study on wound healing.

Oh, this is interesting.

Now, so in order to test...

the one's mind, the degree to which your mind affects healing.