Ellen Langer / Mind and Time click to listen (trt 13:02)
Part 4 of Raising the Minimum Age, featuring Ellen Langerr, professor of Psychology at Harvard University and author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, describing an experiment in the 70s and 80s wherein she took 8 men and put them in an environment that replicated 1959, when they would have been 20 years younger. They were told to put their minds in that year – and she wanted to see if their bodies would follow.
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I follow Big Picture Science and I enjoy myself and learn something new with every program. However I feel obliged to mention that the claims about reversing aging put forward by Professor Ellen Langer are quite controversial. For a good sceptical investigation of this and other claims by Dr Langer, see here:
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/eminent-harvard-psychologist-mother-of-positive-psychology-new-age-quack/