Dr. Sanjay Gupta

So, you know, I start there often when I talk to patients, just sort of reminding them of that, that for some reason,

No fault of your own, but there's this memory loop that is continuing to get replayed over and over again that's causing that pain.

Let's address that in some way.

Addressing that baggage as much as you're addressing the pain.

I think one of the questions that I think a lot of people have is why?

Why does the body do that?

Is it a glitch of our central nervous system to just keep playing those memory loops?

If you talk to people like Bessel van der Kolk, who wrote this great book called The Body Keeps the Score, I think what Bessel would suggest is that there's something else that's probably happened in your life.

And maybe you can't remember it.

but the body keeps the score.

And maybe by addressing some of those things that perhaps aren't in conscious awareness for you, you're not thinking about day to day.

Like you're not thinking about why you're, you're just, your jaw hurts.

You're not thinking about why that might be necessarily.

Trying to treat the symptom more than the cause.

And you may not be able to identify the cause yourself.

Still dealing with, still remembering.

Neuroplasticity, you know, which is sort of the name for this larger concept of being able to change your brain.

There's this phrase, I think it came from like the 1940s, Hebbian, Hebb was the doctor who coined this, but basically neurons that fire together, wire together.

The thing about neuroplasticity that I think a lot of people don't realize is that it's not an inherently benevolent process, nor is it malevolent, nor is it bad.

It's neutral.