What Martin Picard has said about Energy healing
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 12, 2026
Martin Picard, Professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University who leads the mitochondrial psychobiology lab, has been quoted on Energy healing 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 12, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Picard argues that medicine treats identically labeled diseases the same way despite individual variation, with no real means of personalizing treatment.
“these are three different factors disease entities and they have the same label right and therefore in medicine we treat them the same way”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 12:36
Picard defines energy as the potential for change at biological, psychological and societal levels.
“Energy is the potential for change. And that's true at the biological level, the psychological level, at the societal level”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 46:37
Episodes
Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena PodcastMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
A re-aired Phenomena episode in which Ivy Ross, Martin Picard, Richard Hammerschlag, Neil Theise, Meredith Sprengel and Jonathan Cohen ask what energy is in healing.