The Roseto Effect

We begin by addressing a question from Sarah about hypnosis. Then we dive deep into our main topic. Roseto, Pennsylvania was founded by Italian immigrants to America in 1912, and it ended up providing something of a mystery to the medical field in the mid-1950s and 1960s because, despite the fact that they did everything wrong from the perspective of modern medicine in terms of eating properly and taking care of themselves, the entire town managed to have the lowest rate of heart disease and heart attacks of any town in the nation. When researchers investigated, they found that it was the community-driven mindset of the residents themselves that produced this and other remarkable medical results.