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The Daily Motivation

Reprogram Your Brain & Heal Your Immune System | Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Caroline Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, discusses the connection between the mind and the immune system, emphasizing how our thoughts and mental habits can influence our overall health. She explores practical strategies and insights using neuroplasticity to positively affect the immune system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12.2

So how do we learn to reframe our mind or rewire our mind and so that we can have inner peace

0:18.5

when there is trauma or pain around us.

0:21.5

It's a skill that we learn.

0:23.1

So that's really nice to know.

0:24.5

The sooner, it's never too late to start, but the sooner we start, the better.

0:28.0

So I have four adult children.

0:29.4

They grew up with this stuff.

0:31.5

And as I've learned new things, they've been my lab rats.

0:33.8

So they've been trained in.

0:35.0

The biggest thing with the mind and managing mind is to

0:39.1

accept that depression, anxiety, even the scary words like bipolar and schizophrenia and

0:45.1

then going to the more sort of things like that we can accept grief, anger, etc.

0:49.3

These are not illnesses.

0:51.5

This is the biggest message that I probably have.

1:12.2

The second biggest. The first is that mind is the source. And if you don't get mind right, everything else, you can read all the great books you want and go to all the great seminars and self-help. But unless your mind is right, you won't ever use that stuff. It's just data. Part of mind management is not to make the bad stuff go away, but to know how to live in the bad stuff because it's not going away.

1:17.1

So despair, anger, depression, anxiety, these are all completely normal responses.

1:18.5

In fact, they're very helpful.

1:23.6

They're helpful messengers and warning signals as opposed to being scary illnesses.

1:28.7

They are not neuropsychiatric brain diseases like we've been told. They are actually responses and because they are responses of our mind in the world, we use our brain and body

1:34.9

to express them because we've got the mind has to have the brain and body to build the thoughts

1:39.7

and then from, we use that to speak. We're using our physical to store what we've, what we've processed and to convert and then to speak. So obviously, if our mind's a mess, our brain and our body will be a mess. But because our brain's neuroplastic and if we manage our mind, we can change your brain. We can change our DNA. Literally, that's what I've shown in my research. You can literally change your DNA, or blood markers. Okay, let me explain it in a very simple way.

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