TEDMED

A psychedelic session may create a powerful experience. But what happens next?

Heidi Allen explains why integration matters in psychedelic-assisted therapy: helping patients make sense of the experience and bring any insights into everyday life, relationships, and care.

Medicine and music are often treated as separate domains. Richard Kogan asks what may be lost when they are kept too far apart.

His TEDMED Talk explores music’s extraordinary capacity to reduce pain, soothe anxiety, lift spirits, and reach people in ways that conventional interventions may not always be able to.

Together with this week’s new In Context on Zoë Keating, the idea becomes bigger: care must make room not only for treatment, but for meaning.

A.J. Jacobs’ experiment in healthy living began as a pursuit of better health. But it eventually raised a deeper question: when does care become control?

In the latest episode of TEDMED Now, Kelly revisits Jacobs’ self-experiment and examines how the pursuit of health can become exhausting when every part of life turns into something to optimize.

The episode asks what it means to build resilience through practices that restore joy, deepen connection, and remain livable over time.

Watch the full episode at TEDMED.com.

A.J. Jacobs’ experiment in healthy living worked by some measures: cholesterol down, weight down, markers moving in the right direction.

But then came the harder lesson: being “too healthy” can become unhealthy.

His TEDMED Talk asks what happens when self-improvement becomes so consuming that it crowds out the relationships, joy, and connection that also shape health.

Watch the full Talk at https://www.tedmed.com/talk/healthy-living-am-i-sick-of-it-yet/.