{"id":19458,"date":"2025-12-26T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/mind-body-connection-in-chronic-disease-why-traditional-medicine-falls-short\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:53:16","slug":"mind-body-connection-in-chronic-disease-why-traditional-medicine-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=19458","title":{"rendered":"Mind-body connection in chronic disease: Why traditional medicine falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Linda had seen seven physicians in three years. She was on five medications. And she was exhausted, not just physically, but existentially. \u201cDr. Goel,\u201d Linda said quietly, \u201cI\u2019ve done everything they told me. The diets. The pills. The exercise programs. Why isn\u2019t anything working?\u201d At 54, Linda was a meticulous accountant living with hypertension, type<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/mind-body-connection-in-chronic-disease-why-traditional-medicine-falls-short.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/mind-body-connection-in-chronic-disease-why-traditional-medicine-falls-short.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Mind-body connection in chronic disease: Why traditional medicine falls short<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/mind-body-connection-in-chronic-disease-why-traditional-medicine-falls-short.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda had seen seven physicians in three years. She was on five medications. And she was exhausted, not just physically, but existentially. \u201cDr. Goel,\u201d Linda said quietly, \u201cI\u2019ve done everything they told me. The diets. The pills. The exercise programs. Why isn\u2019t anything working?\u201d At 54, Linda was a meticulous accountant living with hypertension, type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}