#135 My awesome guest this week is Jeffrey Rediger with an eye-opening conversation around the concept of healing. Jeffrey is a medical director for the McLean south east, adult psychiatric programs and a leader in ground-breaking neuroscience research. He is also an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has a Master of Divinity degree from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and is a licensed physician as well as a Board-Certified psychiatrist. In this motivational episode, we talk about Jeffrey’s new book, Cured: the Life Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing and his professional opinion on how we as humans can heal.

I found this conversation incredibly interesting because Jeffrey really interweaves science and divinity and teaches us how we can utilize that in our everyday lives. We hear about everything from nutrition to healing our identities and beliefs and how it all ties together to make us as humans the healthiest that we can be. He then leaves us with the uplifting fact that we all matter. I was really influenced by the emotion and positivity in this episode and I hope you enjoy it as well.

About Jeffrey: Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv, is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, the Medical Director of McLean SE Adult Psychiatry and Community Affairs at McLean Hospital, and the Chief of Behavioral Medicine at Good Samaritan Medical Center. A licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.

His research with remarkable individuals who have recovered from illnesses considered incurable has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Oz Shows, among others. He has been nominated for the National Bravewell Leadership Award, and has received numerous awards related to leadership and patient care.

www.drjeffreyrediger.com


Key points with time stamp:

• Jeffrey’s work in his own words (5:58)
• Why is there a division within medicine? (7:24)
• What attracted Jeffrey to spontaneous healing? (9:33)
• Why are medical anomalies so often dismissed and the Jill Bolte Taylor Case (17:57)
• Jeffrey’s definition of spontaneous remission (20:30)
• Common denominators triggering healing in patients: Nutrition (22:12)
• Are our diets actually healthy? (25:41)
• Common denominators which triggered healing in patients: Stress (29:36)
• Common denominators triggering healing in patients: Healing the Immune System (31:40)
• How much can our lifestyle effect the possibility of disease? (36:11)
• Common denominators triggering healing in patients: Healing your identity and beliefs (39:03)
• Can prayer and faith contribute to our well-being? (44:54)
• How was the reception of Jeffery’s book? (48:50)
• A low point in Jeffrey’s life that became a blessing (49:48)
• What is Jeffrey’s morning routine? (51:49)
• Who would Jeffrey’s choice of a dinner guest be, dead or alive? (53:24)
• What was the biggest lesson Jeffrey has learned from writing his book? (54:01)
• Jeffrey’s hope for his book (55:32)
• What Jeffrey leaves us with (56:22)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Cured: The Life Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing (2020), Jeffrey’s new book
• Jill Bolte Taylor
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (2006), Jill Bolte Taylor’s book
• Louis Pasteur
• Germ Theory
• Claude Bernard
• Paul Tillich
• Woody Allen
• The Heartmath Institute
• Buddha
• Jesus Christ
• Gandhi
• Martin Luther King

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