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Erik Vance's 'Suggestible You' on Fox News

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Marcus Sapere practices Reiki massage on a client in his office in Alameda, California. Reiki is based on the idea that sickness is caused by the changes in energy and that a therapist can manipulate that energy with his hands and mind. Image by Erika Larsen.
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Inside our heads is an ancient power. A tool of miracle-workers, charlatans, witch doctors...

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Erik Vance participates in a blessing with a Mexican brujo, or witch doctor, in which he has a self-inflicted curse lifted from him
Erik Vance participates in a blessing with a Mexican brujo, or witch doctor, in which he has a self-inflicted curse lifted from him. Image by Meghan Dhaliwal. Mexico, 2016.

Scientists have long wondered about the influence of the mind on the body. It affects the provision of medicine across the world, from the most remote village in the Amazon to the expensive nutrition fads of Beverly Hills to the long history of miracles and religious healing.

In this report, Erik Vance talks to Fox News about his cover story in National Geographic on the science of belief and how it affects our daily lives.

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