{"id":101223,"date":"2020-01-22T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/calling-an-illness-psychosomatic-doesnt-mean-its-imaginary"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:25:55","slug":"calling-an-illness-psychosomatic-doesnt-mean-its-imaginary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/calling-an-illness-psychosomatic-doesnt-mean-its-imaginary","title":{"rendered":"Calling an Illness \u201cPsychosomatic\u201d Doesn\u2019t Mean It\u2019s Imaginary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calling-an-illness-psychosomatic-doesnt-mean-its-imaginary.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Placebo effects, exercise highs, getting sick when you\u2019re stressed out\u2014the popular press and the scientific literature alike are replete with examples of how the mind or mental processes influence our health and well-being. This \u201cmind-body connection\u201d is essential for normal organ function and also is viewed as the basis for psychosomatic disorders. Yet the concept that our thoughts can influence the function of a variety of organ systems is often viewed with some skepticism,\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Recent experiments have begun mapping the neuronal connections between mind and body like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placebo effects, exercise highs, getting sick when you\u2019re stressed out\u2014the popular press and the scientific literature alike are replete with examples of how the mind or mental processes influence our health and well-being. This \u201cmind-body connection\u201d is essential for normal organ function and also is viewed as the basis for psychosomatic disorders. Yet the concept [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}