Gabor Maté

I mean, I could change your physiology in a split second if I screamed at you.

Your physiology would change.

You can't separate emotions from the body.

In fact, there's a new science when I say new.

I mean, what, 80, 60, 80 years old?

psychoneuroimmunology which studies the unity of the emotional system in the body and the brain with the immune system and the hormonal apparatus and the nervous system it's all one so emotional factors of course have a physiological impact 24 7 and there's not one study there's not a hundred study there's tens of thousands of studies

showing the pathways of that mind-body unity.

They just don't teach this stuff in medical school.

Why?

Because the Western mind separates the minds from the body.

2500 years ago, Socrates said that the problem with the doctors of today is that they separate the mind from the body.

So this mind-body separation is entrenched

in the western ideology and the medical profession is caught up in that same dynamic it's not the fault of individual doctors it's just the medical ideology so i'm saying it's not scientific if you actually look at the science it's not even vaguely controversial

Okay, three questions.

What's the role of the immune system?

And?

Exactly.

In other words, it's the same.

The role of the immune system is the same as that of the emotional system.

Now, I've said they're the same system.