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  • Suggestible You

  • The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
  • By: Erik Vance
  • Narrated by: Richard Powers
  • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (97 ratings)

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Suggestible You

By: Erik Vance
Narrated by: Richard Powers
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Summary

This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds.

Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events.

Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading experts in the field, Vance takes us on a fascinating adventure from Harvard's research labs to a witch doctor's office in Catemaco, Mexico, to an alternative medicine school near Beijing (often called "China's Hogwarts"). Vance's firsthand dispatches will change the way you think - and feel.

Continuing the success of National Geographic's brain books and rounding out our pop science category, this book shows how expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. Vance builds a case for our "internal pharmacy" - the very real chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived.

Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world (think crystals and chakras); and, most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology.

Thanks to this technology, we're learning how we might leverage our suggestibility (or lack thereof) for personalized medicine, and Vance brings us to the front lines of such study.

©2016 Erik Vance (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Good fun

Lots of common sense, with some good science and facts thrown in. Found it be very interesting.

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Inspiring

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Loved it! So positive and refreshing. Opens so many doors for self-discovery and open-mindedness. Very original. Highly recommend.

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Enlightening!!!

Scientific minded people will love this book. Explains how our brain can be fooled and fool us into believing -or even recreate reality according to our expectation. Placebos, nocibos, hypnotic suggestions, expectations etc, this book examines how everything works. I found this audio book pleasant and informative.

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incredibly informative

An enjoyable journey. A wonderful narrative replete with thought-provoking information. leaving, as all good books should do, as many questions as answers

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An amazing book

This book is one I’ve been raving about to friends. It explores placebo and health cate beliefs like no book I’ve read before. It was well researched, evidence based and amazing. Exceptionally well written.

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Makes you question everything you have ever felt!

This book reveals the complex nature of how we humans interpret the world and how easily we bend our interpretation of reality to our expectations. It leaves you questioning all the things that you feel and things you do to make your self better. Questioning all your memories and their veracity. I think you will come out the otherside a more critical and analytical person who at the same time is more open minded to the mystical. I very much reccomended it.

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This is what Audible is for

Informative, interesting and entertaining. I've had a great time listening to this book and I've learned a lot

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Highly Convincing

touches on heuristics, but essentially about why placebos work, hypnosis and faith healing.

on the back of this, I'm going to try hypnosis

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A fascinating insight into our mind

This is an excellent book full of fascinating information and insight into the power of our mind. For anyone interested in the placebo effect this is well worth a listen

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Thought provoking content

This book really opens up for a lot of debate and touches on some great topics. I would recommend it to everyone who like to broaden their perspectives.

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