Dr. Mark Hyman

It affects your level of inflammation.

It affects your perception of pain.

It affects your hormones, wound healing.

All that is affected by what's going on between your ears.

When people actually

understand the neurobiology of your mental state, of your mindset.

It can be profound.

The MRI shows, for example, when you look at MRI studies, they show that if you have belief that you're going to heal, it activates your body's own pain receptors.

So your opioid pathways, the narcotic pathways in your brain, actually get activated by your body's own pharmacy, which is between your ears.

And that lowers your perception of pain.

Another big study in the Lancet found that when patients expected they were going to get better, their outcomes improved, regardless of the treatment type.

So I talked to my surgeons at UCSF and they were like,

I don't know what you're doing.

We have to learn from you because we've never seen people recover like you.

Most people with what you had are still on a walker.

And look at you.

You're like riding bikes up mountains.

You're lifting weights.

You're back to normal life.

It's all about mindset.