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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: Our minds and bodies will be linked with Pamela Ryckan and Candace Pert
Description: I loved this book so much that I wrote the Wall Street Journal review for it! It’s an absolutely madcap and unexpected take on history I thought I knew… But I hadn’t yet encountered Candace Pert. This amazing scientist stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the opioid crisis, the AIDS crisis, and the mind-body movement. A troubled genius, beleaguered, beguiling, and not above bedeviling, her visionary work shaped history - for good and, inadvertently, for evil.
She discovered the opiate receptor (the mechanism by which opioids function in the brain), launching the opioid crisis… She proved the mind...