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Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

103. Maya Raichoora: Train Your Brain Like Your Body + The 5 Types of Visualization

Oct 14, 2025 · 1h 13m

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What if your brain's biggest limitation isn't its capacity, but your failure to train it? In this episode of Extend, Maya Raichoora joins me to share how visualization techniques helped her reverse debilitating ulcerative colitis. We explore the neuroscience behind visualization, from rewiring neural pathways to regulating the immune system through thought. We dive into five distinct types of visualization and why mental fitness deserves the same daily dedication as physical fitness. Maya Raichoora is the UK's leading mental fitness and visualization expert, bestselling author of "Visualize," and a former international badminton player. After being told she'd need lifelong immunosuppressive…