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Healing, Prevention, and Hope · Truth in Motion with Dr. Jocelyn

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Truth in Motion with Dr.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Jocelyn, where insight, clarity, and wisdom help you thrive.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: Happy Friday, everyone! Let's bring it all together.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: This week we talked about treating the root.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: We looked at functional medicine, a modern approach that searches for root causes, and I shared why I call traditional East Asian medicine the original functional medicine.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: I took you inside the treatment room, the 10 questions, the tongue, the pulse, palpation, and introduced you to muscle testing.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I left you with this.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you can see the root, you don't have to wait for the tree to fall.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Today we land this first week on hope.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to talk about healing and prevention and why these therapies aren't just for when you're sick, they're for keeping you well.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: Why does this matter?
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  SPEAKER_01: As always, let's start with why this matters.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Most people find their way to a practice like mine the same way.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: They've been hurting for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've tried everything else, and I'm the last stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm honored to walk with people in that place, but it means most people only think about care like this once something has gone wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: As if acupuncture, herbs, or bod were only for emergencies of this low kind.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you take one thing from this week, I want it to be this.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to wait until you're hurting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even if you are hurting right now, there is a real reason for hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you where that hope starts.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: It starts with how you were made.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think about the last time you cut your finger.
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  SPEAKER_01: You didn't have to tell your body what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: It stopped the bleeding.
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  SPEAKER_01: It sealed the wound, it built new skin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And within days, you'd forgotten it happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's happening all the time, everywhere in you.
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  SPEAKER_01: A broken bone knits itself back together, the lining of your gut renews itself every few days.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your liver can regrow tissue that's been lost.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now, as you listen, your body is repairing, rebuilding, and rebalancing without asking your permission.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe that's by design.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe God made us intentionally with healing built in.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's how I see my job.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't heal anyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your body does the healing.
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  SPEAKER_01: My job is to help clear what's in the way, supply what's missing, and support the process the body already knows how to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: That changes how we think about care.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the body is always repairing, then care isn't only for when it breaks.
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  SPEAKER_01: It can support that repair every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that brings us to prevention.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prevention, the oldest goal of medicine.
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  SPEAKER_01: In episode two, I shared the old teaching about the superior doctor, the one who treats disease before it begins.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the line from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic: treating a disease after it has warmed is like digging a well after you're already thirsty.
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  SPEAKER_01: That same chapter is about living in step with the four seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: How to sleep, move, and carry yourself in spring, summer, autumn, and winter so the body stays strong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prevention wasn't an afterthought in this medicine, it was the goal.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: There's an old story often told about doctors in ancient China.
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  SPEAKER_01: Families paid their doctors while they stayed well and stopped paying when someone got sick.
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  SPEAKER_01: It may be more legend than history, but I love what it says.
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  SPEAKER_01: The doctor's job was to keep you well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, modern medicine talks about prevention too.
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  SPEAKER_01: And screenings matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: They can catch problems early, but notice what a screening does.
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  SPEAKER_01: It finds disease that's already there.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's early detection.
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  SPEAKER_01: True prevention means the disease never forms in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what does true prevention look like in real life?
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  SPEAKER_01: Think about your teeth.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't wait until a tooth falls out to see a dentist.
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  SPEAKER_01: You go for cleanings.
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  SPEAKER_01: So small problems get caught while they're small.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've learned to think that way about our teeth and our cars.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most of us have never been taught to think that way about the rest of our bodies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Holistic care can work the same way.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: Here's what that looks like in my practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Regular tune-ups.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once you're feeling well, come in every so often, keeps things flowing and catches small shifts before they become big ones.
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  SPEAKER_01: Many people like to come in at the change of seasons when the body is adjusting anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: Catching things early.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember the tongue and the pulse.
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  SPEAKER_01: They often change before anything shows up on a lab test.
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  SPEAKER_01: A slightly different pulse, a change in the tongue's coating, a little more tension under my hands, those are early whispers.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can respond to a whisper long before it becomes a shout.
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  SPEAKER_01: Support through hard seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: A loss, a move, a stressful stretch at work.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to wait until stress turns into symptoms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acupuncture, craniocacral work, and herbs can help your body carry the load.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then there's what you do at home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yang Sheng, nourish life, eating real food in season, moving your body in a way that leaves you stronger, not depleted, protecting your sleep, letting your emotions move instead of stuffing them.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: Tending your spiritual life and your relationships.
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  SPEAKER_01: None of these are dramatic, but done day after day, they're powerful medicine.
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  SPEAKER_01: So where does all of this leave you?
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  SPEAKER_01: With hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you why.
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  SPEAKER_01: We use the word hope casually.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope it doesn't rain.
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  SPEAKER_01: In that sense, hope is just a wish.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not the hope I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Bible's languages show us something deeper.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Hebrew, one of the main words for hope is tikvaha.
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  SPEAKER_01: It comes from a root ka vaha, that means to wait and also to twist or bind together, like strands twisted into a cord.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, tikvaha can mean a literal cord.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Rahab hung a scarlet cord from her window in Jericho so her family would be saved, the word for that cord is tikvaha.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hope is a rope, something you can hold on to.
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  SPEAKER_01: In New Testament Greek, the word is elpis.
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  SPEAKER_01: It isn't a wish, it's confident expectation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the book of Hebrews calls hope an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
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  SPEAKER_01: A rope, an anchor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hope is holding on to something solid while you wait.
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  SPEAKER_01: And science is now showing that this kind of hope matters to your body.
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  SPEAKER_01: How we see ourselves, our bodies, our minds, our ability to heal and adapt, it affects what actually happens to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's been measured.
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  SPEAKER_01: At Yale, researcher Becca Levy followed 660 adults for more than 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those with more positive views of their own aging lived, on average, seven and a half years longer than those with negative views.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even after accounting for age, health, income, and loneliness.
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  SPEAKER_01: The researchers noted that was a bigger effect than low blood pressure or low cholesterol.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2019, a team at Mount Sinai combined 15 studies of more than 229,000 people.
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  SPEAKER_01: The most optimistic had a 35% lower risk of heart attack, stroke, and cardiac death than the least optimistic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now let me be careful.
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  SPEAKER_01: This doesn't mean that if you're sick, you didn't think positively enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not true, and it's not kind.
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  SPEAKER_01: It means your outlook is one more thing that you can work with and it can be strengthened like a muscle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hope also rests on evidence.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: People ask me whether acupuncture really works.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here is one answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2018, an international team pulled the raw data from 39 trials, more than 20,000 patients with chronic pain, including back and neck pain, arthritis, headaches, and shoulder pain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acupuncture did better than no acupuncture and better than sham acupuncture, and the benefits lasted over time.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the research.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: But hope also comes from stories.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Let me read you a review I recently received.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quote, I'm currently going for neuropathy pain.
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  SPEAKER_01: She has helped me immensely.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: I had a cervical fusion eight years ago, nothing was helping.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm able to sleep at night, and the weakness in my arms and legs has gotten so much better.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also have arthritis pain.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very calming atmosphere.
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  SPEAKER_01: You feel a calmness when your session is over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very much recommended.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eight years of nothing helping, and now she's sleeping and her strength is coming back.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a body made to heal, finally getting what it needed.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you'd like to read more stories like her, visit my Google reviews or the success stories on my website at healingpathacupuncture.info.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're already a patient of mine and you have a story like this, I'd love for you to share it.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: Leave a review or tell me your story.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Someone listening right now is hurting and needs to hear that someone else made it through.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your story could be the cord they hold on to.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what does all of this mean for you if you're hurting right now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're listening and thinking, uh, that's nice, but I'm already sick.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been hurting for years.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's too late for prevention.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: It isn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's why.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same body that's been struggling is the body that was made to heal.
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  SPEAKER_01: It has been trying to repair you this whole time.
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  SPEAKER_01: It hasn't given up on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you start clearing what's in the way and giving it what it needs, it responds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes slowly, sometimes surprisingly fast, but it responds.
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  SPEAKER_01: You also don't have to change everything at once.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hope doesn't require perfection.
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  SPEAKER_01: It requires a next step.
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  SPEAKER_01: One better night of sleep, one walk, one meal made with care, one appointment, small steps repeated, change the soil the roots grow in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you don't have to walk it alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: In our first episode, I made you a promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not here as the expert with all the answers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a fellow traveler.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't promise you a particular outcome, no honest practitioner can, but I can promise you the process.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be with you every step of the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's where hope lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not in a guarantee, but in a body made to heal, a next step you can take today, and someone walking beside you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's bring everything we've done today and this first week all together.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: Your body was made to heal.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's repairing you right now.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: Good care clears what's in the way and supports what the body already knows how to do.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Prevention is the oldest goal of medicine.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Screenings find disease early.
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  SPEAKER_01: True prevention keeps it from forming at all.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Holistic care isn't only for when you're sick.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Regular tune-ups, catching early whispers, support through hard seasons, and nourishing life at home.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's how you stay well.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're already hurting, it isn't too late.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Hope starts with a next step, and you don't have to take it alone.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Hope isn't wishful thinking, it's a cord to hold and an anchor for the soul.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: What you believe about your body and your ability to heal affects your outcomes.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: And the evidence from research and from real people gives us every reason to hope.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: This week we talked about what a doctor is and what a patient is.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: We looked at how medicine came to mean drugs and what it means to treat the root.
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  SPEAKER_01: And today we landed on hope.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's our week.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's our week.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Enjoy your weekend.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you Monday where we're going to step back and ask, what must be true for us to do meaningful inquiry?
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: And we will be laying the foundation for understanding what evidence based medicine really is.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Keep the conversation going.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find your next steps in Notes from a Fellow Traveler, my blog.