Can positive thinking help in illness? | Interview with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan

Can positive thinking help patients? Best-selling author and doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about the topic in Scandinavian talk show Skavlan (11:36).
Also present in the studio are explorer and TV personality Samuel Massie and his grandfather Arne Ulvolden.
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[@theogoldberg8919]

Reading him right now. Incredibly precise smart and informed.

[@thesmartaspiranttsa5845]

From suffering, comes wisdom From suffering, comes inspiration From suffering, comes vision From suffering, comes solution

[@dineshkumarsnair7964]

Yes Shiva.. We have to learn from our suffering..

[@kjs667]

Sidhharth mukherjee never disappoints...

[@lucaspassos7026]

That was an amazing talk, it's incredible how people like him spend their lives working on something meaningful...

[@dineshkumarsnair7964]

Correct observation Lucas P.. They represent the old school of research solely for sake of humanity.. Not for recognition or lucre.. Unlike present day cut and paste laureates..

[@AllGreyEverything]

Without all the scientific, political, sociological and artistic advancements made by the mentally ill and physically impaired, where would we be? Being born different either indirectly or directly led them to making great impacts on the world.

[@harryeneal6755]

Let us all discover our differences because there are more than a few....

[@rupakkar4]

Very straight forward conversation n lucid language makes the complex topic easy going process.

[@kamalakshakamath9589]

Excellent. Very informative and without any complexities.

[@marilucearaujo-cox5438]

Very interesting!

[@olivem.9588]

A very interesting interwiew. Also is there a video of the young man and his grandfather being interviewed please?

[@ivanleon6164]

nose and ears never stop growing during life, a fact I was expecting Siddhartha to point hahaha.

[@lauratorchio1541]

Hallo Mr. Skavlan. I saw your interview with the Dalai Lama and now I saw this one. I think you would like to interview Dr. Abraham Verghese, the surgeon who wrote My own country and Cutting for Stone. I would very much lilke to see such and interview. Dr. Verghese is a caring phisician.

[@SkavlanTV]

Thanks for watching our show, and thanks for your suggestions! They are noted. Have a great week!

[@lauratorchio1541]

@@SkavlanTV The same to you, thank you. I will stay updated with your new videos!

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

Inshallah. Great person. Great man. Great Human being

[@larrymcgriff1325]

SUCCESS

[@zuldo8577]

Lol, that young guy is so triggered by the medical facts presented to him.

[@jonadol]

And he tried to stand by his statement but he just came off as rude and closeminded

[@roseharvey2664]

He is young and the reality isn't really part of his world, yet. People often like to think if you are positive it won't happen to you or that they have the power to overcome bad illnesses with determination. Unfortunately, that is not so, but no doubt being positive if you can will make doing what is necessary a bit easier and probably be easier for loved ones. I think the doctor is correct, it's not fair to lessen the impact of the disease by blaming the sufferer.

[@ivanleon6164]

surely he has seen a lot of pain in the family around the illness of his grandfather, so the reaction is understandable as first reaction.

[@frankodesandy4688]

The skeptic is a boy; "youth is wasted on the young . . . "🙂

[@johnterry6541]

Misleading title.

[@sagarsreddy6037]

It is not fantasy anymore..

[@ivanleon6164]

there is a quote somewhere that sayw that any intelligent thing has been already said by a greek, this prove it, lol, I can't believe they already asked if heredity can be manipulated to make sons better.

[@harishadithya448]

I have "minority report" in mind

[@dineshkumarsnair7964]

Yes.. Harsh.. I too remember it.then Boys from Brazil too

[@ksat8602]

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[@wesleytietz4506]

i don't know the man in the blue suit, but i do know that i have less ailments when i'm happy and fulfilled, vs being sad or negative. SO there's something there. that he doesn't know.

[@siddharthraychaudhuri7250]

How can you correlate having less ailments because you are happy? Maybe the reverse is true, maybe you are happy when you have less ailments and sad if you do. Being happy or trying to have a positive attitude can help you live and face life better. A negative attitude can you feel miserable. And what he just said was about cancer, he said that nobody causes cancer by being sad. By the way he is Doctor, a top cancer researcher and a Pullitzer prize winning author. Maybe you should read his two books, 'The Emperor of maladies' and the 'The Gene'.

[@wesleytietz4506]

@@siddharthraychaudhuri7250 you can think and guess and maybe this, maybe that. I don't know much other than my own experiences of life. I'm 31. I've noticed if something seems not right with me (i.e. stomach ache, headache, hungover, sore muscles) all i have to do is make myself feel good. I can't explain it. Maybe you should research WimHof, since I learned from him.

[@barbaridoz]

He didn't want to generalise that having positive attitude will help to cure the cancer. You have to understand that he is dealing with cancer patients on daily basis so he knows the stats on top of his head. My question you: if you are thinking positively, does it cure your illness or just help you to not think about the pain?

[@user-qy6si7gr5x]

Read my book which will be out in few months. I am.also an oncologist.

[@elwhitman4779]

German New Medicine. Look it up.

[@shaheenhossain1]

What is this German new medicine about?

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