Dr. Jack Feldman

That's the National Complementary Medicine Institute.

I totally agree with you.

I think that it's the kind of thing that many of us, including many scientists, thinks is too woo-woo and unsubstantiated.

But we're learning more and more.

You know, we used to laugh at neuroimmunology.

There were all these things that we're learning that we used to dismiss.

And I think there's real nuggets to be learned here.

So recently, we had a major breakthrough.

We found a protocol by which we can get a weight mice to breathe slowly.

In other words, whatever their normal breath is, we could slow it down by a factor of 10.

And they're fine doing that.

We did that 30 minutes a day for four weeks.

Okay, like a breath practice.

And we had control animals where we did everything the same, except the manipulation we made did not slow down their breathing.

We then put them through a standard fear conditioning, which we did with my colleague, Michael Fanzelow, who's one of the real gurus of fear.

We measured a standard test that put mice in a condition where they're concerned to receive a shock.

and their response is that they freeze.

And the measure of how fearful they are is how long they freeze.

The control mice had a freezing time which was just the same as ordinary mice would have.

The ones that went through our protocol froze much, much less.