Your Brain Thinks All Pain is the Same: Touch Therapy Can Help – Dr. David Rabin with Dave Asprey : 729

Aug 11, 2020

Dr. David Rabin, a renowned neuroscientist and health tech entrepreneur, dives deep into the relationships between trauma, stress, and mental health. He discusses the power of psychedelics in treatment, touching on how they can aid in healing. The conversation also explores innovative wearable technology designed to replicate the calming effects of touch, alongside the benefits of vibration therapy. With insights on the emotional connections of pain and the need for holistic treatment approaches, Rabin offers fresh perspectives on mental well-being.

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ANECDOTE

Opioid Crisis and Personal Pain

Dr. David Rabin was deeply affected by the opioid crisis, witnessing friends overdose due to mixing medications.
This and personal experiences with extreme pain gave him insight into patients' struggles and fueled his search for better treatments.

INSIGHT

Reinterpreting the Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath's "do no harm" principle is about balancing the likelihood of benefit and harm.
Prioritize treatments with high chances of relief and low risk, considering statistics like "number needed to treat" versus "number needed to harm."

INSIGHT

The Interplay of Pain and Stress

Emotional and physical pain are neurologically similar, often worsening each other in a feedback loop.
Chronic stress from daily life can overactivate the sympathetic nervous system, hindering the parasympathetic system's recovery functions.

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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we’re going all in on stress and anxiety. Dr. David Rabin is going to take you into the brain, discuss mental health, show how psychedelics can help, and introduce you to the world’s first adaptogenic wearable technology. This is part 1 of my conversation with Dr. David Rabin.

Listen to part 2: Healing Trauma with Touch, Breathwork and Psychedelic Medicine – Dr. David Rabin with Dave Asprey – #730

He's a neuroscientist, board-certified psychiatrist, health tech entrepreneur, inventor and researcher. In his clinical practice, he specializes in mental health disorders that can be resistant to treatment, like PTSD and substance abuse.

“We've all had these experiences and they all impact our lives and it may impact the way we see ourselves and the way we see the world around us,” Dr. Rabin says. “It could be like the first time you watched a war movie to some first time you've had a terrible nightmare, or the first time that somebody bullied you in school. These things are dramatically impactful to us. And until we take the time to look at ourselves and try to understand what makes us who we are, ... sometimes they evade us, right? And they elude us to the point where we don't realize that we act in ways that are reflective of these things that have happened to us.”

Dr. Rabin’s been studying the impact of trauma and chronic stress in humans for more than a decade and has some ideas on how you can manage it. He’s co-founder and chief innovation officer of Apollo Neuroscience. Apollo is a new kind of wearable technology that delivers touch therapy, scientifically validated to lower stress.

Certain combinations of low frequency inaudible sound waves (vibration that you can feel but can’t hear) can safely and reliably change how we feel through our sense of touch. We then can measure those physiological changes in near real time.

Developed by physicians and neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh, Apollo delivers gentle vibrations of low-frequency sound that are clinically validated to improve heart rate variability (HRV), helping you to relax, sleep well, focus, and stay energized.

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