In this powerful episode of Into the Body, host, Dr. Aleksandra Filipovic sits down with Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author Jeffrey Rediger to explore one of the most provocative questions in medicine:
What if healing is not a miracle, but a pattern we have yet to fully study? Dr. Rediger, author of the bestselling book Cured, has spent decades researching cases of spontaneous remission – patients who recover from incurable illnesses against all medical odds.
They explore:
- What “spontaneous remission” really means, and why it’s not random
- The patterns observed in patients who experience unexpected healing
- How identity, dignity, and self-worth influence physiology
- The connection between trauma, the nervous system, and immune dysfunction
- The difference between threat stress and challenge stress
- How Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps patients integrate trauma