It is standard medicine that mental states can affect physical states. That's how placebos work-when sham drugs improve health, working by inducing the body to generate hormones. But some claim that the mind goes even further in healing the body, operating through consciousness in some nonphysical manner. Can this make sense?
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Elissa Epel is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
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