382: Introduction

1. The Quote
1. “We have the ability to change the body’s functioning with thought, with emotion, and with memory” ~ Robert Sapolsky
2. Perception
1. The Problem
2. Our perception of the world largely determines our health and well being
1. However, our perception of the world is largely habitual and unconscious
3. The Solution
1. Psychotherapy and stress management
1. Brings the habits and unconscious to the conscious
3. Leading Causes of Death
1. 1900’s
1. Biologically based causes (Infectious Diseases)
2. Medicine has helped solve them
2. 2000’s
1. (Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke, Pulmonary Disease) Largely stress induced
2. Lifestyle & Stress (Chronic Processes)
4. Biopsychosocial Model
1. Used to focus on the biomedical model but now shifting to the biopsychosocial model
5. Integrative Medicine
1. Multidisciplinary care (having a team)
2. Focus on 
1. Prevention
2. Doctor-patient relationship
3. Patient plays a central role
6. Stress
1. Positive and Negative Stress
1. P: Good Stress
2. N: Distress
2. Defining Stress (Hans Selye coined the term for anxiety)
1. Distress
2. A condition or feeling in which perceived situational demands exceed one’s coping capabilities
3. Eustress
1. Good stress, something perceived as enjoyable