On December 20th we lost a true revolutionary: Robert Ader, the experimental psychologist who pioneered the
study of psychoneuroimmunology (don't let the big word scare you), or how our thoughts influence our immune systems.
Nowadays mind/body interactions are accepted as basic and almost self-evident, but as recently as 1985, the
New England Journal of Medicine dismissed interactions between the mind and the immune system as "folklore." 

But the truth is that the human organism is spectacularly complex; we assume simplicity because it's easy for us
to understand, not because it reflects reality.  And as I've said before, chronic stress causes or worsens almost
every disease.  Why, I...