Dr. Dean Ornish shares insights into his personal life and ways to improve our health through our own personal lives by no longer looking for happiness and health outside oneself. Through his years of medical research and his own experiences, he speaks about ways to combat loneliness and depression from within and empower one's mind and body.

Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ornish was honored as "one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years," chosen by LIFE magazine as “one of the fifty most influential members of his generation,” and recognized by Forbes magazine as “one of the world’s seven most powerful teachers.”

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx