Prof. Ellen Langer | You Think You Know - Mindfulness, Mind-Body Unity and the Science of Living Fully

About this episode

What if most of what you think you know is wrong, and that's actually good news? In this episode of The Dr. K Show, Dr. K sits down with Professor Ellen Langer, Harvard psychologist and the mother of mindfulness, to explore what it really means to pay attention. Ellen has spent 50 years researching how the mind shapes the body, and the results are harder to dismiss than most people expect. In one study, elderly men reversed measurable signs of aging in five days. In another, hotel chambermaids lost weight and lowered their blood pressure without changing a single thing about their diet or workload, only their mindset shifted. In a third, a rigged clock changed how fast wounds healed. This…