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The Truth About Cancer<br />
New York Academy of Sciences called, The Biological Foundations of<br />
Music. And this is a hundred dollar textbook from all <strong>the</strong>se academically<br />
affiliated MDs and PhDs. And what <strong>the</strong>y found is <strong>the</strong>y showed that when<br />
you play music, and actually you can show things when you sing too.<br />
Music, in general, is <strong>the</strong>rapeutic. Singing and playing is even more<br />
<strong>the</strong>ra—just listening to music that relaxes you is good for you and it can<br />
have extraordinary healing capacities. The studies are beyond argument<br />
now that <strong>the</strong> music that you’re listening to, making, singing, or playing,<br />
actually changes <strong>the</strong> way <strong>the</strong> brain works. It comes back to those 400<br />
year old peptides and <strong>the</strong>se are chemicals that connect nerve cells.<br />
Nerve cells don’t touch. They have a chemical that flows between <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
And your thoughts dictate which chemicals are being communicated<br />
which dictates are you going to digest and absorb your meal well or are<br />
you going to have poor absorption of that Many of <strong>the</strong> nutrients went<br />
through you. Is your immune system at maximum capacity or is your<br />
thymus gland shrinking because of stress Hans Selye and his<br />
incredible work, Dr. Selye was <strong>the</strong> grandfa<strong>the</strong>r of stress. And <strong>the</strong>re’s<br />
many o<strong>the</strong>rs in <strong>the</strong> field who have clearly proven that stress is a killer<br />
and music is a healer.<br />
Ty: Here’s a quote by former President John F. Kennedy. “Humor<br />
is <strong>the</strong> balancing stick that allows us to walk <strong>the</strong> tightrope of life.”<br />
So you’ve talked <strong>about</strong> music, talk <strong>about</strong> humor.<br />
Dr. Patrick Quillin: Absolutely! We were given this funny bone for a<br />
good reason. And I realize that <strong>the</strong>re’s many people who say you think<br />
that’s funny. This is funny. Look at my life. And I can tell you things<br />
<strong>about</strong> my life that you could easily get very discouraged <strong>about</strong> and yet<br />
John Kennedy’s quote is absolutely true, that we’re all walking this tight<br />
rope of life and that that humor is <strong>the</strong> balancing stick that allows us to<br />
manage it well. Let me give you a couple of examples. What do <strong>the</strong><br />
following longevity experts have in common Bob Hope lived to be a<br />
100. George Burns lived to be 99. Art Linkletter lived to be 97. Jack<br />
Lalane lived to be 95, I believe. Phyllis Diller, I believe, is in her late—<br />
early 90s. Betty White, who’s still alive and doing great in her early 90s.<br />
What do <strong>the</strong>y all have in common A great sense of humor. And what<br />
happens is we’re all exposed to a certain amount of stress. Some of us,<br />
not me, but some of us—God bless you combat veterans who are<br />
returning with a lot of stress mentally and physically, more than I could<br />
handle. But somehow we have to be able to take that stress and use<br />
humor to try and dissipate <strong>the</strong> stress. So what happens is here’s this<br />
big, ugly balloon that’s blocking our view of <strong>the</strong> beauty of life and humor<br />
says pop <strong>the</strong> balloon or at least slowly let <strong>the</strong> air out of it. And it is—a<br />
great metaphor would be it’s <strong>the</strong> shock absorbers that allow us to ride<br />
that rocky bumpy back road of life. And it says, I can tolerate this<br />
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