Dr. Safia Debar explains that Western medicine’s founders, Hippocrates and Galen, centered care on the body’s innate capacity to heal and the physician’s role in supporting it (“first, do no harm”), a philosophy she says modern practice kept in wording but largely abandoned. She recounts Hippocrates’ shift from supernatural to observational, evidence-based medicine; links his “healing power of nature” to homeostasis and modern stress physiology; and connects his gut-centered view of disease to contemporary gut-brain-axis and microbiome findings. She then describes Galen’s systemization of Hippocratic ideas, including the four temperaments and observations on emotion’s physical effects, and notes Arab scholars preserved and transmitted Galenic medicine to Europe. She offers four applications: ask what blocks recovery, know your temperament, prioritize gut health, and observe emotional-physical patterns, previewing a next episode on Ibn Sina and prophetic medicine.

00:00 Science Meets Soul Intro
01:50 Healing Power Forgotten
04:28 Who Was Hippocrates
06:47 Vis Medicatrix Naturae
09:22 Homeostasis And Stress
11:31 All Disease Begins Gut
14:42 Humors To Precision Medicine
17:04 Meet Galen In Rome
20:19 Four Temperaments Explained
25:08 Emotions And Disease Link
27:12 Arab Scholars Preserved Medicine
28:07 Four Practical Applications
33:28 Closing Summary Next Episode

Connect with Dr Safia Debar

Dr Safia Debar
Speaker / Coach | Medical Doctor | Breathwork Facilitator

One of Tatler's "Top 21 private doctors in Britain" 2020
www.drsafiadebar.com
contact@drsafiadebar.com
IG: @drsafiadebar
Tiktok: drsafiadebar

Find our free resources here: www.drsafiadebar.com/resource