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The mindbodygreen Podcast

640: How to unlock your body’s innate healing system | Victoria Maizes, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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"Your body heals better when it feels safe, when your nervous system is quiet,’ explains Victoria Maizes, M.D. Maizes is the Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and co-host of the Body of Wonder podcast. She's a leading voice in integrative medicine and author of the new book Heal Faster, which makes the case that modern medicine has been so focused on treating disease that it's largely overlooked the body's most powerful asset: its innate capacity to heal. In this episode, we discuss: What is the recovery reflex? (1:10) Why two people can have completely different health outcomes (3:26) Protein, the catabolic state, & tests to run before major surgery (6:11) The difference between managing disease & actually healing (18:21) The power of language (19:00) Trauma & how to activate your vagus nerve (29:00) Mindset, guided imagery, & letting go of outcomes (35:42) The mystery of long COVID (41:46) Circadian medicine & red light therapy (48:50) Referenced in the episode:  You can find Dr. Maizes website here: www.drvictoriamaizes.com And her latest book, Heal Faster, here: https://a.co/d/0i0OT4KJ We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Two people. same injury, same treatment, one heals in weeks, the other still struggling

1:17.9

years later. Have you ever wondered why this happens? Today's guest is Dr. Victoria

1:22.3

Mazes, executive director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and the author

1:27.1

of a new book,

1:28.3

Heal Faster, which makes the case that modern medicine has been so focused on treating disease

1:33.0

that it's largely overlooked the body's most powerful asset. It's innate capacity to heal.

1:38.7

Dr. Mazies calls the recovery reflex, and she argues that almost everything we do, from how we

1:44.0

eat and sleep to how we

1:45.2

think about and talk about our symptoms either supports it or gets in the way. In today's show,

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