My Mum tells me that when she got sick once as a child, the doctor ordered her to be sent away to the seaside for 'convalescence'. you'd never hear of that nowadays.

This Doctor is a rare exception. She has a soul. I refer to my [Dr] brother as a glorified drug dealer for pharma. Fewer incompetent, egotistical Doctors and many more empathetic nurses is what society needs today.

This is brilliant, Lissa, thank you. As a pharmacist for 30 years, I also believe my beloved profession has sold out its heart and soul. I wish you all success in your endeavours to heal yourself and our disease management system, sending Light and Love for your journey - and mine!

FYI, I am Katie that you mention and I am still alive and doing great, cancer free!!!!!!! Thank you for all you do Lissa.

Lissa, I wanted to let you know that my surgery was successful, my Doctor removed 90-95% of my tumor and I am doing great. Needed some rehab in my hand but that's the only lasting reminder. Best of all- no seizures! It was such a blessing to meet you; you inspire me so much! Thank you for your prayers and support. Lots of love, Katie Smith

This doctor is astounding. She is voicing what I know as a nurse. Luckily for me I work in a private setting where I can talk to my patients, where I can explain the changes she advocates. I send them to slimming classes, stop smoking, even send to meditation and gyms. I tell them to stop doing the extra work hours and re look at their lives. It works, they know it works and more they change their lives and I see them again in the car park for a chat, but they rarely come back to my office and they rarely take medication. I love this, it's what we've always known, but forgotten how to do. I consider myself lucky that I can spend as long as it needs to talk and sometimes that alone is all people need.

I'm just now seeing this, and so blessed by it! I'm in the process of getting off of all of my meds for chronic pain, and replacing them with more exercise, meditation, healthier foods, etc. God bless you and thank you so much Lissa!

I think we do not realize how powerful our mind is and how it can either help to heal us or hurt us.

Lissa as someone "with" Poly arteritis nodosa for the last 10 yrs and constantly choosing to go off meds only to get back on it after a bad "incident" I learnt that the missing link was my mental, emotional and spiritual well being. I am off meds again but this time more conscious and empowered. Thanks to warriors like u who choose to empower, the world will be a better place!! Love

Dr. Rankin's talk changed my life...

This is one very bright lady whom, after rejecting conventional medicine as the cure for everything body wise, spent years trying to research, and discover, the road to a type of "total health", and especially happiness. I recommend you to listen to her story, which is presented in a clear, logical, and comprehensive manner, and ask yourselves, "is this journey for me?". Dr. Leon M. Silverstone

I agree with pretty much everything this young lady said. This might be my favorite Ted Talk of all. It takes a lot of guts for a doctor to admit that they've been wrong. I have the utmost respect for those doctors. They are a huge part of the solution to the problem.

I have found life after near death on over twenty prescriptions...write your own plan of care. Make it a positive goal for each area of your life and enjoy a wonderful outcome.

Millions of people are addicted to their legally prescribed medications. Overdoses and deaths are at an all time high. Dr's are over prescribing. Why??? What role do the drug companies play? Is this epidemic just a money thing? It's so scary! Thank you Lissa for having the courage to speak publicly about this AND for telling people that they can take control of their own health.

Good to hear about Katie. Lissa you are a beatiful person, thanks for doing what you do. Liliana

Wow. So amazing Lissa. I completely agree. I've known and practiced wellness for 35 years!! Been saying this all along! It's the future. I'm buying your book. Thank you so much for this.

Medicine is being unapologetically YOU... great message Lissa, Thank You !!!! :)

I would love to see Lissa and Dr. Gabor Mate have a talk together about stress and medicine because I know it would be very deep and enlightening.

As a layperson who has had doctors chomping at the bit to give her unnecessary medications, I can say you are a breath of fresh air! Thank you!!

One of the best motivational talks I've yet heard. Goes hand and hand with a successful life.

Lissa I am so blessed to have a mother who raised me on homeopathic medicine, herbs, chiropractic and colonics. She never has and still doesn't take any prescription medicine at all - She's 86 and is a practicing massage therapist. I have preached the message of taking athletes out of the game when they are injured. I totally agree and do everything I can on a daily basis everything you say. Thank you!!!

Thank you Lissa Yes this is exactly what people need to do. Feed your body and listen to your body. You don't need medication. You need the best for your body. I am 80 and do not take one medication. As most my age take 10-50 each day. This I will be sharing with others and also lead them to the Best company for nutritional needs.

A really heartfull medical professional's advice! Very lovingly shared! May all other doctors follow her feelings and recommend the real medicine; and not the killing ones! Why we don't believe in our own natural powers? Earlier we do, the better!

What would my prescription be? What do I need? Simple; to find a dr like you!

Beautiful message! I love the soul medicine! Your journey and purpose to restore mankinds awareness that we can self heal. My purpose is to awaken the human healing potential and I do my best to spread this message in my work. Thank you!!!

Naturopathic vs Allopathic medicine “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ― Hippocrates

Dr Rankin is absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this talk and bringing her teaching and findings closer to us all... what an incredible talk!! Thank you!

WHEN YOU LOVE YOURSELF AND OTHERS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! ANYTHING! :-) LOVE & LIGHT!

Lissa is so right, bless her for sending her message of healing to the world.... So many people suffer needless

Hallelujah! So Great! You are a blessing!

Bravo Lissa! You are speaking to my heart. My goal as a healthcare provider is to increase patients and other healthcare providers awareness to see how far off track things have gotten. Stress and poor diet are at the core of all chronic dis-ease. Awareness is knowledge and can empower all of us. Thank you!

I am just crying listening to this talk. I have learning the most I can to give my self the medicine I personally need. Thank you young lady, thank you doctor. I wish my well intentioned doctor who is prescribing me different cocktails to control hypertension, should listen and identify with the side effects I have been struggling with. Thank you for confirming my doubts, and inspiring my way.

Wow! I respect this doctor for coming forth and being totally honest and transparent! She is soooooo right! Just recently one of my doctors insisted on operating me and offered me NO OTHER CHOICE, Thank God I stood firm and didn't allow it and eventually was HEALED! This IS DEFINITELY a BROKEN Health system and there is so much more to this than we know, its deeper.

How can you get rid of stress when it is deeply part of your life 24/7 daily. For the entire life of my daughter who suffer from an incureable genetic disorder. with multiple body disfunction and blindness. Since I am single mother with cancer and in daily pain I can't easily wish these problems away and this is the smallest of all my daily stress.. Dealing with cancer treatments for five years is a true nightmare. Most people think having a nurse in the home helps decrease the stress level but for me and my daughter it only adds to the stress at a 100%. So many nurses over the years that don't know or do too much I have to always trained and trained you also have to deal with their personality. I have no family support, awful housing, and for any disabled person living in a one-bedroom regular small bedroom and bathroom is heart breaking. I guess I should learn to be happy and unstress because her ventilator is keeping her breathing. But this talk is great I am always looking for some helpful on line advise since get out is impossible unless my daughter or myself is seeing a doctor

This talk was well spoken. Your dictation is great as well. Your rhythm and pronunciation seems to weave its way into my mind. Good flow, great information. Luckily The Netherlands is number 17 of 193. There is still work to be done here though :)

Hi Lissa I am 23 years old and I am from Ecuador. I just saw your video and I think you are simply the best doctor in the world. Do you imagine a world with doctors like you? We need it believe me!!! God Bless you Lissa your message is a beautiful miracle and you are a great example for everybody

10 years cancer free from grade four brain cancer, Glioblastoma. Lissa, I wrote a book called Welcome to Katie's Brain. It's my whole story.

This was absolutely AWESOME! Lissa, we need more doctors like YOU!

Thank you, Lissa! I am continuously healing myself with soul medicine. It's the best! Thank you for echoing this so that more people will be empowered to take charge of their own life and be free from the own bondage they put on themselves. Blessings, Angel.

BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!!

This talk is so beautiful that it reduced me to tears.

Well said Dr. Rankin!!! Very true and enormously enlightening. The world needs more doctors like you. Keep up the good work.

It breaks my heart...watching this video.She said it redundantly.

Appreciate your boldness and love for Truth and having a good heart.

She is fantastic, my kind of a girl! Thought Become Things!

What an amazing and inspiring transformative presentation!!A scientist, compassionate and a natural professional! You are a true professionalThank you for this convincing speech - with GRATITUDEDr Latha Hapugoda MBBS, MSc, MD, FFPH (UK)

Talk about fighting the good fight. I cannot tell you how exciting it is too see your message hitting the main stream. Thanks for doing what you do Lissa.

Not only is stress a silent killer, as studied and researched by Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky, but the resulting anxiety and existential battle slowly drain you or your health and connection to the world. I just went through an examination of my life stress and through a series of examinations I took an honest look at my life and saw what I was doing to create this dis-ease in my life. Lissa is criticizing the aspect of medicine that does not work. We are in control of our health and responsible to look at what makes up our beliefs and why we believe them. We have been conditioned to see the medical world as "all good", but in reality no human system is perfect no matter how scientifically based that system is if there is a political and economic control mechanism in play.

How refreshing was that? I knew there were still true Doctor's out there Thank you Dr Rankin!

my body knows how to cure itself

Thank you so much Lissa for having the courage to do this Ted Talk. I believe you are "awakening" the medical industry and the world. It is time for change. Much love & aloha :)

Naturalist doctors are needed so very much, world wide….

I'm so grateful to have found you through Sara Gottfried, MD. I'm not a physician, but a dietitian who loves to learn and think outside of the box. You're right on! Thanks!

Lisa, I am your folower for almost two years and I can't express how much you have inpact in my life for good. Today I am better person in all terms. Your message is powerfull, keep it up !!! You are my role model. Dusica

Thank God for the good ones in between the bad ones

Very well said. This modern doctor mindset/programing is the entire reason I became a traditional medicine doctor (Eastern/acupuncture). There is too much separation between the body and the person. They're inseparable, just as the body, mind, and soul are inseparable

I'm very ill right now, hard tons of medication had weaken my body, doctor has made a few mistakes and what should had taken a few days to heal has become 4 weeks. I'm going to learn about natural medicine because i don't want to be a guinea pig anymore. Don't relay only on medication and doctors, sometimes they're clueless. I love this lovely lady speeches btw, i aploud her.

8:22 excellent description of what stress is.

Lissa, I just love your message. I have been into holistic health for a very long time and it’s great to see the science behind it, all in one place. Your book is terrific. It took guts to stand behind your convictions especially when it may stomp on a few toes. It’s time people opened up their mind to the infinite possibilities in this world. And your speeches and your book are a huge step in the right direction. Kudos

what an awesome talk, thank you for sharing this beautiful work

I really do wish for humanity to understand this

remarkable! this is a start to changing the medical profession in itself! amazing!

Great talk for empowered patients and conscious medicine deliverers alike. I've used this successfully with many clients with cancer to needing a heart transplant and it works!!

Thank you being so honest.

i really love your talks! thank you for telling the truth.

Thank you Lissa, for following your inspiration and having the courage to do what you do. You are an inspiration to me and so many.

I Appreciate the wisdom shared, Wishing you Love and blessing to continue .

Wonderful talk. It gives me HOPE that things may change!

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information:)

I like your honesty, do Good, do no harm

Great talks and very inspiring. I love all of your TEDtalks.

Thank you Lissa for speaking your truth. Loved meeting you live in Chicago and now watching you on this TED X vid - keep doing what you do - your message is so needed to hear.

Excellant i totally agree with you ,i am also working in Mind power to heal the Anxiety related diseases.

The strongest medicine is in your SOUL the real you, the master of the whole body which can produce everything so you can initiate the magic invisible miracle powers that god gave you on your very first intake of breath, use them, do not let them die.

Wonderful! Thank you so much, Lissa, for stepping out and telling the Truth. You're talking about discovering the SOURCE of our physical ailments and not just treating the symptoms. That has been the biggest frustration I've had with modern medicine. When you treat the source, the symptoms go away! What a concept! Thank you for pointing this out to your colleagues. I hope they listen! Blessings as you continue your work in your world. xoxo

I respect her for admitting what they are really called to do as doctors and true healers. Everything has been tainted and corrupted. I so agree with all the suggestions she gave as to what real medicine is and how we should begin to heal our own bodies.

We all need to spread this information my family Dr. always said we know our body better than he ever will trust yourself!

Thank you for being brave enough to speak on this!

... I LOVE THIS GIRL ... SHE IS RIGHT ON... :)

Lissa, All the angst felt on your plane ride was your inner pilot light guiding you to an incredible and inspiring talk. I hope to see this on as many PB stations as possible. As I continue to heed my own calling of healing the soul, healing the body, you are a mentor and bright light of inspiration to me. You are the change I wish to see in the world. Many blessings to you and thank you for the gift of you!

Thanks for this video. It is great and I only wish people would listen. MUST SEE

Dr. Rankin rocks!!! Thank you!

A shining human being who can think for themselves. Great work Lissa.

Awesome as ever Lissa. So needs to be said. Time for a paradigm shift in Health care rather than Disease management.

Thank God for You.

Excellent Tedx Talk!

id also like to add that my illness definitely developed after a ptsd trauma. after 3 years of chronic stress my body shut down in many ways. therefore ur mind is in control. I believe that the body shuts down so u are forced to reprioritize and stop stressing, so u can get back to normal. cuz if ur body is healthy, u don't feel the need to change anything. just my two cents

Thanks very much for the insights! This is real good medicine stuffs.

Laughter makes a merry heart. We should be anxious for NOTHING! Envy and jealousy ROT our bones, I can go on and on. Scientists like her have to admit it! Stress is killing us and all we're doing is covering it all up with bandaids, she is so right! Thank God someone is coming clean in that side of the fence. May we all take heed.

She's such a sweetheart :)

fantastic presentation. Every one must watch

Thank u all very much

THANK LISSA

Over forty five years ago a group of doctors came to my high school and told us that if we got VD we should go to the county health department and get treatment. They would then trace your partners and treat them. Well as it was common back then I got the clap. I ended up at Highland hospital. They did treat me and I am thankful for that but didn't track down any of my partners. But shortly ofter that I started to have strange health problems. I now know that was when I was infected with Hep C. Hep C has an initial onset much like HIV. They are both retro viruses. 45 years later Hep C gave me cancer. I rose up and attacked the problem and fought it with every tool I could. I lived through the cancer but let me tell you it was tough. When I was first diagnosed with hep C the doctor would not treat me unless I said I had done IV drugs. I was an athlete. I ran ten miles every morning. Did Karate and Tai Chi as well as did Modern, Jazz and Ballet. But to get treatment I had to say I had done IV drugs. I now know that I was exposed to hep C from in the injection I got for the clap at Highland Hospital. I was invided to attend a seminar on hep C that included a presentation by Dr. Stewart. He did the first studies on Hep C using Chimps. I sat right in front. He was at most ten feet away from me. He said only ten to fifteen percent of those exposed to the virus become chronic. I asked him if the number is that low how does he explain the high number of people that have Hep C. He couldn't, he just shrugged his shoulders. Then I see his work published on pubmed and the numbers had been changed to 45 to 55 percent. That is the reality of modern medicine. They kill you, or infect you with a deadly disease, and lie about it to you. All the while charging you a huge amount of money for treatment. The current "wonder" treatment for Hep C in one thousand dollars a pill!!!

When I stopped taking an ssri, everything made sense

BRAVO!! Thank you, Lissa. :)

THANK YOU for THIS! It is/was one of the BEST Ted Talks I've watched. You basically, "nailed" it. Appreciate your thoughts. :)

Don't underestimate the power of "eating the right foods".

THE SPEECH IS SOO BEAUTIFUL

Best ted talk ever