🧬 “Genes don’t control your life – your life controls your genes,” says Dr. Leo Pruimboom in the eleventh episode of Mastering Change. A clinical psychoneuroimmunologist, researcher and pioneer in systems-based medicine, Dr. Pruimboom is challenging everything we think we know about trauma, disease, genes, psychology and mental health.
In this episode we discuss:
🔹 Why most autoimmune diseases are misnamed (and aren’t autoimmune diseases at all)
🔹 How loneliness rewires our organs
🔹 The power of purpose – and how purpose of life intervention can shrink tumour size by 50%
🔹 That genes do nothing on their own: it’s our environment or choice that activate or silence them
🔹 The importance of spontaneous neural activity – and how doing nothing is medicine
Dr. Pruimboom also makes a compelling case for the role of environment, connection, and behavioural agency in reversing modern illness. As he explains, we’re currently living in – and desperately trying to adapt to – a world we’re not made for. But thankfully, we have the capability to adapt: he reports the research showing that 120mins in nature per week can down regulate our blood pressure.
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