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She seemed wonderful, and very, very grounded and strong." In her introduction to the first segment of "The New Medicine," Reeve said: "Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being.

For years, my husband and I lived on - and because of - hope.

Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on."The project was the last she is known to have completed before her death on March 6, and it was a fitting one: "The New Medicine" looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient - not just symptoms of a disease."Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time that are really looking for a magic cure," said Dr.

Tracy Gaudet, who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham, N.C.

"We're not in the business of magic cures; we're in the business of good medicine."In an off-camera interview with the film's producers, Reeve said she was focusing on a mind-body approach.

That included, she said, "creative image work" - evoking images and sensations as a cue to the body to relax.Her treatment, with the support of her doctors at New York's Sloan-Kettering, mixed traditional and nontraditional approaches."The New Medicine," tho...

The show focuses on how stress can cause illness and make a disease much worse by attacking the immune system.

It contends that doctors can no longer just treat parts of the body - they must look at the person as a whole, including their mental health.

Doctors on the show admit that they once considered this idea a sort of quack medicine, but many are now learning that it can produce results that all their modern, high-tech stuff can't.

We see scientists tracking how emotions physically change the heart, stomach, blood pressure and other parts of the body through experiments never before possible.

We watch patients who do mental exercises before surgery recover much faster.

It's made a believer of some insurance companies, who say a $17 CD can dramatically cut the number of days in the hospital.

A 13-year-old girl with terrible chronic pain learns how to turn it off with her mind, and we watch as an 18-year-old youth uses hypnosis to alleviate his suffering.

None of these techniques offer cures, but they hold out the hope of living better lives just by using our heads.

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