To Treat an Incurable Illness, He Quit Science – and Took up Qigong

“Where do you go when your core belief can lead you no further? Into doubt. That’s where Dr Stephen Mattarollo is heading, one slow step at a time. In another life, Mattarollo was a scholar in a hurry. He headed a research team investigating the immune system: how it could be harnessed to attack cancer, and how chronic stress can damage it in ways that make us chronically ill.
And then he got chronically ill. And science, his lodestone, had nothing to offer him. So Mattarollo is now walking his own path, and it’s led him to some very unexpected places – like leaving science, and becoming a Qigong instructor.
From knowledge, into doubt.”…

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