Dr. Ellen Langer
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And it turns out it's perceived time.
Come on.
Yeah.
And we're doing this now with people who have had a hernia operations, cataract surgery.
I want to do with broken bones as well, where we tell people right now, you know, the doctor probably tell you, say, how long is it going to take for me to heal?
Three to six months.
And I think they use the outer limits.
I want to tell people, you know, some people have healed as quickly as and give the quicking healing time and see what happens.
Interesting.
You're not going to do anything until three or six.
Exactly.
I think it's one.
It's one.
So it will necessarily be connected.
You know, so in the back of... After I talked about in the book about all these mind-body unity studies, I give...
a treatment that we've come up with that essentially, but I want to, let me backtrack a little bit.
Most people know about placebos.
Placebos may be our strongest medicine.
Just think about it.
You take a sugar pill, you take a nothing,