Dr. Gabor Maté

Wow.

So they get that the individual represents the culture and the environment and the family and the community.

Now Western medicine totally forgets that.

We separate the mind from the body.

So we often, when I speak to groups, I ask people if in the last five years you've been to a neurologist or an oncologist or a cardiologist or gastroenterologist or a rheumatologist.

Any kind of anologist, put your hand up, so people put their hands up.

So keep your hands up if they ask you about stress in your life, trauma in your childhood.

Relationships.

Relationships, exactly.

How you feel about your work, how you feel about yourself as a human being, very few hands stay up.

And those questions, which have to do with, number one, the unity of mind and body, which is only scientific fact,

and the inseparableness of one human being from another, Western medicine completely ignores, which is contrary to science.

It's not only contrary to ancient wisdom, it's also contrary to modern science, because we have tens of thousands of studies to show that you can't separate the mind from the body.

Tens of thousands of studies showing how emotions significantly influence the onset of illness, how...

relationships do, you know?

There's a wonderful psychiatrist here in LA, you may know of him or him, Daniel Siegel.

And Dan Siegel talks about what he calls

interpersonal neurobiology, which means that our brains are not separate.

Something in you will sense the tension in me and will pick up on that.

The intuition, the... Yeah, that'll change your brain.