Was Music the First Medicine?
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Was Music the First Medicine?
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Why has sound been used as a tool for healing across cultures and throughout history? And what does modern neuroscience reveal about this ancient practice?
In this first episode of Resonances, physician, singer, and researcher Patricia Caicedo explores the deep and enduring relationship between music and medicine—from prenatal life and shamanic ritual to Pythagoras, Renaissance physicians, and contemporary neuroscience.
Drawing on history, biology, and clinical research, this episode examines how sound interacts with the nervous system, regulates emotion, modulates pain and stress, and shapes our experience of health. What ancient cultures understood intuitively, science is now beginning to explain.
This episode invites you to listen differently—and to reconsider the role of music not as metaphor, but as a biological and cultural force in human health.
🎧 In this episode:
- Sound, the body, and early healing practices
- Rhythm, vibration, and nervous system regulation
- Music as medicine across history
- What neuroscience tells us today
Welcome to Resonances—where music, health, and identity meet.