Scientists say 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain

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Lol…

The study followed 20 healthy adults who took part in a 7-day residential retreat led by neuroscience educator and author Joe Dispenza, D.C.

For this not familiar seeing “D.C.” in this context or that name…

It’s a chiropractor that keeps rambling about “quantum” stuff without understanding any of it..

But when I typed Dr. Joe Dispenza’s name and pressed enter, the first page didn’t show the usual Wikipedia and Google Scholar pages. Instead, I got a bunch of random self-promotional websites and YouTube videos of conferences he had held. Some of these videos are deeply disturbing: telling a woman to just think about how much she wants kids to fix her infertility; saying that we can achieve immortality — and that some human beings have achieved it — by truly “living in the present.”

And the credentials? His website is incredibly vague: “Dr. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is a Doctor of Chiropractic. His postgraduate training includes the fields of neuroscience and neuroplasticity, quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, epigenetics, mind-body medicine, and brain/heart coherence.” Most scientists will agree this does not make you a neuroscientist. Also, a Bachelor of Science in what, exactly? Why withhold that information?

https://nesslabs.com/the-rise-of-fake-scientists

I just imagine this chucklefuck being on a plane and someone yelling for a doctor…

And he leaps to the rescue, unnecessary adjusts their left rotator cuff, and then tells him to think about puppies to stop their heart attack.

There’s way to much pseudo science slop thrown around this sub tho, even if this one is so ridiculous it’s almost funny.

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Chiropractor. 😂 Might as well be a magic 8 ball.

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“Doctor…*gasp…my brain…my heart…they’re…wheeze*…incoherent…”

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It’s not a bachelors degree in anything. It’s just a BS degree.

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Why in the world is this being downvoted?

ScienceDaily is a highly reputable source, AFAIK.

EDIT: Thanks, downvoting weirdos. May I ask why you’re even subbed here?

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I guess lemmy doesn’t believe in meditation huh, wild. It’s amazing.

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Funny. The very paper itself is proposing that belief isn’t needed, because we have measurables. Or you can look at the real-world, impressive work of Mark Epstein, who does a great job coming at meditation (and Buddhism) from both an insider and an outsider’s perspective. (he’s a trained and licensed psychiatrist)

So maybe it’s really more of an anti-belief thing here?

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ScienceDaily is a highly reputable source, AFAIK.

lmao.

Why in the world is this being downvoted?

Because it’s bullshit from a quack chiropractor.

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controlled breathing can raise skin temperature. there’s an app for that

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ask any yogi.

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Placebo/nocebo effects are powerful…

But the guy who did this research is a full on grifter.

It’s akin to Steve Jobs treating cancer by eating fruit. It didn’t mean that fruit doesn’t have any health benefits, it just can’t cure cancer.

Like, this chiropractor truly believes any human can be one immortal if they just “live in the moment” enough…

And he wrote a paper about how awesome he is and how effective his company’s treatments are

One co-author (Joe Dispenza) is employed by Encephalon, Inc., the company offering the retreat; all other authors declare no competing interests.

He’s just not dumb enough to put all his programs claims up to scientific rigor. You prove the handful of parts that you can, then extrapolate that to the obvious grift parts.

It’s snake oil salesmanship 101, basic enough everyone should recognize it on sight, just so they don’t fall for it.

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