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Dr. Rene’ Dubos, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and micro-biologist at Rockefeller University, made a major inroads and contribution to the study of mind-body medicine.

In 1965, Dr. Dubos had a group of a hundred and fifty students participate in a very detailed mind-body study, conducted in a double blind format.

He injected all students with bacteria that would not make them sick, but would stimulate their white blood cell count to go up. After the injection, he took blood samples from the study participants every few hours during the next 48 hour period. He was watching what happened in the blood system, and how long it took for the white blood cell count to double.

He then waited a week, and did another injection, with a different non-sickness producing bacteria. And every few hours did a blood draw to see how long it took their white blood cells to double in response to this bacterial invader in the body.

What Dr. Dubos found, was on average it took 24 to 48 hours for the student’s white blood cell count to double. During the next 30 days he had half of these 150 students just go about their normal lives, then come back a month later for retesting.

He had the second group practice daily for ten minutes, imagining that large quantities of white blood cells were flowing out of their tissues and bones while they thought of it happening. He had them imagine that the white blood cells were being produced as a result of the focus on the production of them.

He then brought all 150 students back to the lab one month later, and injected them again with a different strain of non-sickness producing bacteria, to see how long it took their body to double the white blood cell count.

What he found was that the 75 students who had done nothing it took approximately 24 to 48 hours for their white blood cell count to double. This was the same as it had been with each of the previous types of bacteria.

But, with those students who had been practicing this mental process of triggering and increase of white blood cells in their body, it was an entirely different story.

When those students mentally imagined massive amounts of white blood cells being produced after the injection of bacteria, their white blood cell count doubled on average in 1.5 hours—instead of 24 to 48 hours! Dr. Dubos’ conclusion—that through using our mind, we can trigger our immune system to more rapidly heal our physiology.