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Dr. Candace Pert
Dr. Pert enjoys speaking and sharing her work and thoughts with audiences all over the world. Her current AIDS research responsibilities in a private lab have caused her to greatly reduce her appearances and non-research related activities. If you wish to request a media or press appearance, interview, public speaking engagement, personal, academic or scientific inquiries, please send a detailed request via email to Lagena Smith (lagenasmith@gmail.com). Unfortunately, Dr. Pert cannot accept requests for endorsements of manuscripts or products.
Dr. Pert has been a frequent lecturer on the role of emotions in health and disease. In her new book, Everything You Need To Know To Feel Go(o)d, Dr. Pert shares the answers she's found, both from her biomedical studies on the brain, neuroscience, and drug action, as well as from her own life experiences. Topics include how to achieve psychosomatic wellness, the role of our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations in shaping our realities and controlling our physiologies, the importance of forgiveness, love, spiritual practice and joy in healing ourselves and in our relations to others. Dr. Pert will share insights into the poisoning of our foods and environments, the emotional causes of chronic degenerative illness and aging processes, and how positive affirmations, imagery, meditations, music, and bodywork create balance to optimize natural healing pathways.
Dr. Michael Ruff is Dr. Pert's long-term collaborator, colleague, and husband. Together they have written scientific articles on the mind-body connection, lectured on these topics to professional and lay audiences and conducted workshops. Dr. Ruff's specific expertise lies in the area of pathogenesis (the causes of disease), immunology, virology and the cellular receptors which govern the body's response to injury. Dr Ruff's lecture and workshop topics include the innate, emotional causes of disease, the physiology of natural repair and regenerative processes, and how emotions and their related neuropeptides can both interrupt and impede healing, as well as facilitate and potentiate these pathways.
Her scientific work in the 1980's while a Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health, led to her theory of how the "bodymind" functions as a single psychosomatic network of information molecules which control our health and physiology. She and close colleague Dr. Michael Ruff were among the earliest contributors to "psychoneuroimmunology."
Her original contemporary theories of the unconscious mind and its influence on psychosomatic illness, happiness, and wellness, led to her 2008 award of the Theophrastus Paracelsus Prize for Holistic Medicine at a recent ceremony in St. Gallen Switzerland.