ZDoggMD’s take on mind-body medicine: “Western medicine has historically been appropriately skeptical of so-called mind-body approaches, given our tendency to want to explain causality in terms of molecules, receptors, and other such reductionism. After all, what do we call ‘alternative medicine’ that actually works? Medicine … Let’s study it more, and let’s stop being afraid of the hippies.”
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