AIRED: December 16, 2019
SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Kelli Harding
Discover an eye-opening and provocative new way to look at our health based on the latest groundbreaking discoveries in the science of compassion, kindness, and human connection.
When Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding began her clinical practice, she never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits.
In 1978, a seemingly straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness—in the form of a particularly nurturing post-doc who pet and spoke to the lab rabbits as she fed them—made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart.
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness by Dr. Kelli Harding is brand-new, evidence-based framework for health that synthesizes vast amounts of medical and public health data. It critiques our medical system for compartmentalizing patients and treating their illnesses as disparate issues instead of essential and interconnected parts of a whole.
In this not-to-be missed interview, Dr. Harding shares how The Rabbit Effect provides an empowering and radical new way to think about health and wellness. She will describe how the research proves that the way we live, work, play
and treat each other greatly affect the body in profound ways, altering metabolism, immune functioning, mental health and the course of disease.
ABOUT DR. KELLI HARDING
Dr. Kelli Harding is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as boarded in the specialty of psychosomatic (mind-body) medicine. Kelli has spent much of her career in the emergency room at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, NPR, The New York Times, Medscape, Oprah.com, and US News & World Report. Kelli resides in NYC with her family.
