Medicine: What’s Real and What’s Placebo? | Brian #9 | 6.22.21

Dhammarato and Brian talk about the history of different medicines and how they've evolved to where they are today. They also compare the western medical industry to the medical industry in Thailand.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:00:38 Mysticism and Medicine 

00:05:08 Wisdom helps avoid sickness and harm

00:08:59 The Placebo Effect

00:17:08 Breathing

00:22:18 Western doctors are capitalistic, polluting the system 

00:34:22 Get to know the body before old-age, sickness, and death

00:44:02 How to investigate the effects of a pill