Guide to Alternative Medicines with Helene Langevin

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What does science say about alternative medicines and health fads? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the science behind alternative medicine with director of National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Helene Langevin, M.D.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk Special Edition, we're going to explore some of the innards of the National Institutes of Health and that branch of them known as complementary medicine.
0:13.0	What is it?
0:14.0	How does it work?
0:15.0	What does it mean?
0:17.0	Is it real?
0:18.0	Is it fake?
0:19.0	What role does science play in all of our decisions related to supplemental health.
0:26.1	All that and more coming up on Star Talk.
0:30.8	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:33.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:38.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:42.0	This is Star Talk. right now.
0:46.0	This is Stark Talk Special Edition. Today we're going to explore the National Institutes of Health, the NIH,
0:51.0	and their special program on what we once called alternative medicine,
0:57.7	but now it's been sort of rebranded, renamed, rethought about as complementary medicine.
1:04.0	Let me introduce Gary.
1:06.0	Hi, Neil.
1:07.0	You are a special edition guy, right?
1:09.0	Well, I'm part of a team.
1:11.0	There's no I in team, so there.
1:14.2	Yes, but there is a me.
1:16.0	There is a me in team.
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