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We know the mind influences the body, but what seems to be ignored in the life sciences is what influences the mind. Dr. Mario Martinez will explain why culture is what influences the mind, why our cultural beliefs are more powerful than our genetic endowment, & how growing older is merely the passing of time - whereas aging is what we do with time based on the beliefs we assimilate from our cultures.
Rather than being genetically sentenced with family illnesses, we have the capacity to change how our genes express disease as well as the causes of health, based on how our brain learns to culturally perceive the world.
Dr. Mario Martinez is a clinical neuropsychologist specializing in how cultural beliefs affect health & longevity. He proposes, from mindbody research, that longevity is learned & the causes of health are inherited. He studied healthy centenarians worldwide & found that only 20% can be attributed to genetics - the rest is related to how they live & the cultural beliefs they share. Martinez is the author of The MindBody Code & The MindBody Self, bestsellers that teach his theory & practice of biocognition. He also explains why our immune system is not just a protector. Instead, it responds to the cultural premises we learn to perceive the world.
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