Can story be used to improve blood pressure?
African-Americans with uncontrolled high blood pressure benefited from an intervention using DVDs of real patients’ stories of how they dealt with their chronic disease.
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By the way, a book you might find interesting on the topic of blood pressure is Healing Hypertension – A Revolutionary New Approach by Samuel J. Mann, M.D. This book (1999) is not about storytelling per se but it speaks between the lines about the stories we hold within us – a very interesting read – in part about the mind/body connection.