After much examination, the team discovered that the group of rabbits with far healthier blood vessels was under the care of an especially kind post-doctoral student who treated the animals with love and patience when handling them. The team expected that the rabbits would have fatty deposits in their small blood vessels that were commensurate with their high cholesterol levels, but instead the unexpected result was that a significant number of the rabbits did not. In his study, Dr Nerem analyzed the number of fatty deposits in the small blood vessels of a group of New Zealand White rabbits after they were fed a diet high in fat. Instead of the expected now long-proven result, his discovery that kindness can cause rabbits to be healthier was a potentially much larger paradigm shift.
The story begins in 1978 with Dr Robert Nerem and his lab of researchers who as a group performed a study on rabbits in order to establish the relationship between a high-fat diet and heart health. Her book is an illuminating exploration of a new vision of the practice of medicine and health that demonstrates what our lives could be like if we targeted our “hidden factors of health,” looked more often to our social world for solutions to our health woes, and recognized how beneficial and transformative the use of kindness is. The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of KindnessĢ72 pages $18.98 (hardcover) $12.99 (e-book)Ĭan kindness help determine who gets sick and who stays healthy? It is a question Dr Kelli Harding answers in her inaugural book, The Rabbit Effect, when she invites us to take a leap of faith into the world of self-help by following the story of a white rabbit, just as Alice and Neo did before us.
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