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What's the most important part
of your health?

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What do you think?

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Is it eating a balanced,
mostly plant-based diet,

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balancing your hormones, daily exercise,
getting enough sleep -

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What do you guys think?

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Taking your vitamins,
seeing your doctor for regular check ups?

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(Laughter)

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These things might all seem
like important, even critical, factors

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to living a healthy life,
but what if I told you

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that caring for your body was
the least important part of your health?

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What do you think?

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I'm a physician,
so if you'd told me that five years ago,

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that would have been total sacrilege.

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I mean, I spent 12 years training,

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because the body is supposed to be
the foundation for everything in life.

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But what if I told you that the medical
profession had it all backwards,

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if the body doesn't shape
how we live our lives?

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What if the body is actually
a mirror of how we live our lives?

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Think about it for a minute.
Think about a time in your life

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where you weren't living the life
you were supposed to be living.

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Maybe you were in the wrong relationship;

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or you were in
some hostile work environment

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doing what you thought you should do;

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or you were creatively thwarted,
you felt spiritually disconnected.

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And what if you started getting
little inklings from the body,

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little physical symptoms?

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You know, the body's trying to tell you
something and you ignore it,

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because you're supposed to do
what you're doing.

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And then the body totally decompensates.

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Can you think about a time in your life
where something like that has happened?

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Yeah, I see a lot of noddings.

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Yeah, me too.
Same thing happened to me.

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So this is what the body does,
the body is brilliant this way,

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the body speaks to us in whispers.

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And if we ignore the whispers of the body,
the body starts to yell.

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Millions of people in this country
are ignoring the whispers of the body.

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We are suffering from an epidemic

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that modern medicine
has no idea what to do with.

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People suffering from
this epidemic are fatigued,

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they're anxious and depressed,
they toss and turn at night,

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they've lost their libido.

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They suffer from
a whole variety of aches and pains,

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so they go to the doctor,
'cause something is wrong.

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And the doctor
runs a whole battery of tests,

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and the tests all come back normal,
so the patient gets diagnosed as "well".

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Only the patient does not feel well.

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So she goes to another doctor and
she starts the whole process over again,

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because something is clearly wrong.

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And it is wrong,
it's just not what she thinks.

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I used to work in
a really busy managed care practice,

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I was seeing 40 patients a day.

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And I would get so freaking frustrated
with these patients.

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They would come in and it was so obvious
they were really suffering.

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And I'd run the tests,
everything would come back normal,

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I'd diagnose them well,
and they'd look at me like:

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No, I'm not well, something's wrong.

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And I felt so frustrated because
I couldn't come up with a diagnosis.

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And they just wanted, please God,
give me a pill.

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And there was no pill,
there's no pill to treat it,

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there's no lab test
to diagnose this epidemic,

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there's no vaccine to prevent it,
no surgery to cut it out.

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It wasn't until years later
that I realized I was suffering

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from the same epidemic 
my patients were.

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By the time I was 33 years old,

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I was your typical physician.

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I had succeeded in everything I ever
wanted to achieve in my life, I thought.

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I had all the trappings of success,
the ocean front house in San Diego,

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the vacation home, the boat,
the big fat retirement account,

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so I could be happy
one day in the future.

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I was twice divorced by that point.

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I had been diagnosed
with high blood pressure.

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I was taking three medications
that failed to control my blood pressure

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and I had just been diagnosed

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with precancerous cells
of my cervix that needed surgery.

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Even more importantly I was so
disconnected from who I was,

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so totally disillusioned with my job,
so completely spiritually tapped out,

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that I didn't even know
who I was any more.

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I'd covered myself up
with a whole series of masks.

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I had the doctor mask, like when you
put on the white coat,

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stand up on a pedestal,
pretend you got it all together,

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you know it all.

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And I am also a professional artist,
so I had the artist mask,

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where you've got to be, you know,
dark and brooding,

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mysterious - starving,
that wasn't me either.

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And then I had gotten married
a third time,

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you know, third time is a charm.

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So now I've got this dutiful wife mask
I've gotta wear,

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where I've got to get dinner on the table

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and make sure
that I've got the right sexy lingerie on.

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And then I got pregnant and all of sudden

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there's this huge mummy mask
you're supposed to wear, right?

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You guys know the mummy mask.

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You're supposed to instantly
inherit the gene

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that makes you capable of baking the
perfect cupcake.

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That's where I was,
wearing all those masks,

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when my perfect storm hit.

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And at this point in my life,
it was January 2006,

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and I gave birth to my daughter
by C-section,

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my sixteen-year-old dog died,

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my healthy young brother wound up
in full-blown liver failure

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from the antibiotic Zithromax,

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and my beloved father passed away
from a brain tumor, all in two weeks.

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I had just started to take a breath,
when my husband,

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who was the stay home for my newborn,


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cut two fingers off his left hand
with the table saw.

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Yeah -

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They say when your life falls apart,
you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

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Fortunately for me I decided to grow,
there was something in me.

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SARK called it my "Inner Wise Self",
which I call your Inner Pilot Light.

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It said, "It's time to take the masks off.
It's time to stop the madness.

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It's time to stop doing what you should,
and start doing what you feel."

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And in that moment I knew
I had to quit my job.

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Now, this was a huge deal, right?
I spent 12 years training to be a doctor

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and hundreds of thousands of dollars

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and we had all the trappings, you know,
the house, the mortgage,

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all the doctor stuff, right?

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My husband was not employed
and I had a newborn.

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I also had to pay a malpractice tail
to buy my freedom,

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a six-figure malpractice tail,
in case I ever got sued in the future.

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So I decided to do it, and God bless
my husband, who said let's jump together.

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And I quit my job
and I had to sell my house

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and liquidate my retirement account
and move to the country;

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and I spent a few months painting
and writing and licking my wounds.

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(Laughter)
(Applause)

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It wasn't until about nine months later,
everybody was like - nine months!

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I'm an OB/GYN!

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Nine months later I realized you can quit
your job but you can't quit your calling.

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And I had been called at a very young age,
I was seven years old,

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to the service, the practice,
the spiritual practice of medicine;

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and that calling hadn't gone away.

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I had gotten so wounded by the system
that I didn't even notice it anymore;

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but it came back after I had rested
and healed after a little while.

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But I knew I couldn't go back,
I couldn't be seeing 40 patients a day,

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7,5 minutes with my patients,
that wasn't why I went to medical school.

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So it began this quest, that turned into
an almost five-year quest now,

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to rediscover
what I loved about medicine.

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So that also meant I had to figure out
what I hated about medicine.

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So I started by blaming everybody:

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it was the ambulance chasing
malpractice attorneys;

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it's big pharma;
it's managed care medicine;

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it's the insurance company's fault.

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Then I thought, oh no,
it's the reductionist medical system,

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we're so, so sub-specialized, 
you know?

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I'm an OB/GYN, so I was seeing
these patients that had pelvic problems.

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But I knew that there was something
bigger than the pelvis

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that was causing their issues.

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But I hadn't been trained
to really look at that.

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So I thought that's the problem,
like you go to your doctor,

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your pinky finger hurts and he says,
"I'm sorry, I'm a thumb doctor."

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(Laughter)

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Nobody's looking at the whole picture.

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So I thought integrative medicine
was the answer.

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And so I joined
an integrative medicine practice,

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and it was so much better; I got
a whole hour with my patients.

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I really got to listen to my patients,

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we didn't accept
managed care medical insurance,

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so it was really so much better.

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And then I still kept bumping up
against something though,

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because now if you came in
and you were depressed

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we were giving you herbs and amino acids
instead of Prozac.

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If you had other physical symptoms -

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but it was still this allopathic model,

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where the answer was outside of you,


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and I had to give you
something that you could take.

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So I thought maybe that's not the problem,
maybe I need to look outside of that

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and find new tools
for my healing toolbox.

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So I started working
with all these complementary

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and alternative health care providers,

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whom I love, acupuncturists,
naturopaths and nutritionists.

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And I started treating my patients
with needles in their energy meridians

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and raw foods, and that was great.

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But I kept bumping up
against the same thing:

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patients would get better from one symptom

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and if we didn't treat the root cause

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of why they had
that physical symptom in first place,

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they just wound up getting a new symptom.

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So at this point I was both
really frustrated and really curious,

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and I started down this path
of trying to figure out

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what really makes a body healthy,

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and what really makes us sick.

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And I dug into the medical literature
and spent a year researching

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all of the randomized controlled
clinical trials out there.

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And I decided this is it,
I'm going to figure it out,

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I'm going to find the answer.

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And I spent hours in the library,
researching, reading, studying.

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What I found blew my frigging mind,

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stuff nobody ever taught me
in medical school.

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All the things we think of as health,
all the things we think matter, they do.

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It matters that you exercise,
it matters that you eat well,

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it matters that you see the doctor.

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But nobody taught me that what
really matters is healthy relationships,

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having a healthy professional life,

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expressing yourself creatively,

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being spiritually connected,

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having a healthy sex life,

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being healthy financially,

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living in a healthy environment,

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being mentally healthy,

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and of course all the things
we traditionally associate with health,

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also matter,
all the things that nurture the body.

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The data on this is unbelievable.

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Lots of it is not in
the traditional journals that you read,

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that doctors read, a lot of it's
in the psychological literature,

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the sociological literature.

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But if you look deep, this is in
The New England Journal of Medicine,

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it's in The Journal of the
American Medical Association,

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it's coming out of Harvard and Yale
and Johns Hopkins.

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This is real data proving
that these things are just as important,

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if not more.

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I had this patient, she's a raw vegan,

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she runs marathons,
she takes 20 supplements a day,

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she sleeps eight hours a night,
she does everything her doctor tells her,

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she's got a chart this fat, and
she's still got multiple health problems.

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So she had heard about my philosophy,
I had started practicing with my patients,

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and I had an intake form
that's about 20 pages long

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and it asks about all those things,
relationships, work life, spiritual life,

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creative life, sex life,
all of these things that make you whole.

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So she came and she filled out her form
and she said,

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"Doctor, what's my diagnosis?"

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And I said, "Honey, your diagnosis
is you're in a freaking abusive marriage.

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You hate your job,
you feel creatively thwarted,

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you're spiritually disconnected,

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and you haven't let go of that resentment
you have against your father

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who molested you as a child.

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Your body is never gonna get well
until you heal that."

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So if taking care of the body isn't
the most important part of being healthy,

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what is?

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It's caring for the mind,
caring for the heart,

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caring for the soul,

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tapping into what I call
your Inner Pilot Light.

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Now your pilot light is that part of you,
that essence,

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that authentic, deep, true part of you,
that spiritual, divine spark

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that always knows what's right for you.

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You're born with it,
it goes with you when you die,

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and it always knows
the truth about you and your body.

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It comes to you in whispers;
it's your intuition;

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it's that beautiful part of you
that is your biggest fan;

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the part that writes you love letters.

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And that is the biggest healer
you can tap into,

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better than any medicine,
better than any doctor.

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So based on everything that I learned,
I developed a new wellness model.

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And it was based,
not on the pie charts and pyramids

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that many of the wellness models
I had studied were based on.

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I based it on the cairn.

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Have you guys seen these things
around San Francisco?

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These stacks of balanced stones,
I love them, I've always loved them.

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I'm an artist,
so it appeals to me visually.

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But I love the interdependence.
Every stone is dependent on the other;

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you can't just pull one stone out
without the whole thing crumbling.

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And the stone that's most precarious
is the one on top.

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That's the body,
that's where I think of the body.

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The body is the stone on top.

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When any of the facets of
what makes you whole get out of balance,

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the body is the first to start whispering,

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and the foundation stone
is your Inner Pilot Light,

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that true essence of you,
that vulnerable, transparent part of you.

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So based on that, I created this model,
that I call the Whole Health Cairn.

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And this is what my next book is about.

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An it's taking all of the facets
of what makes you whole;

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it's about self-healing from the core,
and once you recognize this,

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then you have all the tools you need
to start your own healing journey.

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So all of the facets of
what makes you whole are surrounded

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by what I call the healing bubble.

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This is love and gratitude and pleasure.

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And science proves
that all of those things

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are good for your health as well; they are
the glue that hold everything together.

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So I challenge you.
If you have any physical symptom,

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if you're suffering from the epidemic
that plagues the developed world,

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I want you to ask yourself,
"What's the real reason I'm sick

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or suffering, what's out of balance
in my whole health cairn?"

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What's the real diagnosis
and what can you do about it?

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How can you be more transparent?

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How can you open yourself up
to more possibility?

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How can you be more honest with yourself
about what you need and who you are?

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If any of you were lucky enough to see
Brene Brown's awesome TEDTalk

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about the power of vulnerability -

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I see a lot of nodding heads, I love it -

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it's so fabulous, but it talks about
the science behind being true,

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being vulnerable, being transparent.

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It generates love and intimacy
which increases oxytocin and endorphins,

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and reduces harmful stress hormones
like cortisol and adrenaline.

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When we let our true self be seen,
when we let our Inner Pilot Light radiate,

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we heal from the inside out

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and it's more powerful than anything
medicine can give you from the outside.

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So I challenge you to write
the prescription for yourself.

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No doctor can do this for you.
We can give you drugs,

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we can give you surgery,
and sometimes you need that,

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that's the jump-start
of the self-healing process.

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But to heal to the core, so that
you don't develop new symptoms,

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so you don't need another surgery --
you gotta write your own prescription.

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So I ask you, "What is it that you need,
what does your body need to get healthy?

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What is it that you need to change,
What needs to be tweaked in your life?"

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If you knew
that stripping off all of your masks

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and letting us see
that beautiful light within you,

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was the solution to your health problems,
would you be willing to do it?

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I dare you.

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It just might make
your body ripe for miracles.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)