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To Best Heal the Body, You Have to Heal the Mind
Expert Insights from Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta has experienced all sides of the global health system.
As a practicing neurosurgeon, Dr. Gupta has been a member of the western medicine system for over 25 years.
He is also the Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN, and since 2001 has covered the most important health stories in the United States and around the world.
Dr. Gupta has also long been in search of the secrets to living life to the fullest. This quest recently took him to the longest-lived and happiest cultures around the globe — far-flung locations across Turkey, Japan, Italy, Norway, India, and Bolivia — for the CNN Original Series “Chasing Life.”
I recently talked with Dr. Gupta about the keys to health and longevity, based on all of his learnings from medicine, journalism, and experiences around the world.
Dr. Gupta is a big champion of the medical advances that have taken place in the United States, but he is concerned about the current health trends.
“The United States is the only country in the developed world to have decreases in life expectancy three years in a row,” he told me. “Nowhere else in the developed world has that happened, and it hasn’t happened in the…
