The following speech was given at the RAADfest longevity conference in Las Vegas in July, 2025. In this speech, Max talks through the power of the mind in medicine, discussing peer-reviewed literature from top journals on the placebo effect, meditation, hypnosis, psychedelics and more. He gave the speech jointly with Colonel John B Alexander, who ran several of the projects within the US military looking at the far reaches of human potential, including remote viewing and psychokinesis.