#183 Why Woo Woo works with Dr David Hamilton
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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“Humans have become like tuning forks that vibrate sweetly to the sounds of nature.”
Sometimes, when the spirit is soothed with a little extra care, the body returns to balance all by itself. And that’s why today we’re talking about why Woo Woo works with Dr David Hamilton.
After completing a PhD in organic chemistry, David worked in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, and how some people's conditions would improve because they believed a placebo was a real drug, David left the industry to write books and educate people on how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their mental and physical health.
Today, I want you to keep an open mind. We talk about crystals, energy biofields, visualisation, the law of attraction and a bunch of concepts that make the sceptical part of my brain nervous to even consider talking about. But reading the book “Why Woo Woo Works”, the surprising science behind meditation, reiki, crystals and other alternative practices, has opened up my mind to the possibility of why these are practices that hold merit.
We talk about:
The mechanism behind placebo
Positive vs Pessimistic consultations in general practice
Visualisation and the immune system
Nature, fractals and responses to pain with plants
Reiki and biofield energy therapies
Emotional contagion via mirror Neurons?
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Skitchen. |
| 0:02.0 | Restorpees, Health, Lifestyle. |
| 0:05.0 | So I actually wrote three or four days a week from midnight to 3.30 in the morning |
| 0:09.0 | if I didn't have a class to teach until the afternoon. |
| 0:12.0 | And so there's a lot of action. |
| 0:14.0 | And I find if you combine willingness to take action and the picture you're making in your head |
| 0:21.0 | then sometimes really amazing things can happen. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Skitchen podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:50.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:03.0 | Sometimes when the spirit is soothed with a little extra care the body returns to balance all by itself. |
| 1:09.0 | It's something that I firmly believe in and it's why today we're talking about why Wu Wu works with Dr. Dave Woodhamerton. |
| 1:18.0 | He's been on the podcast before but as a reminder he completed a PhD in organic chemistry and David worked in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry |
| 1:27.0 | developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer and inspired by the placebo effect that we get into today and how some people's conditions would improve because they believed a placebo was a real drug. |
| 1:40.0 | David actually left the industry to write books and educate people on how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their mental and physical health. |
| 1:49.0 | Now today I want you to keep an open mind. |
| 1:52.0 | We talk about crystals, energy bio fields, visualization, the law of attraction and a bunch of other concepts that make the skeptical part of my brain nervous to even consider talking about. |
| 2:05.0 | But after reading the book why Wu Wu works, the surprising science behind meditation, Raky crystals and other alternative practices, it's really opened up my mind to the possibility of why these practices hold merit. |
| 2:18.0 | Today we talk about the mechanisms behind the placebo effect, positive and pessimistic consultations in general practice, something that I can definitely relate to, |
| 2:28.0 | visualization and the immune system, nature, fractures and responses to pain with plants and then we also go into Raky, bio field, energy therapies, what that even means and the emotional contagion via mirror neurons. |
| 2:44.0 | This is going to be a really interesting podcast if you're new to this. |
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