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

Key Notes

• Over 50% of our patients are considered to be treatment resistant. – 2:27
• For me, it’s about really going back to the origins of the Hippocratic Oath  – 6:52
• Things like tricyclic antidepressants, MAOIs, anti-psychotics can kill you if you take too much, it’s rare but it can happen – 11:15
• Square One, talks about this extraordinarily eloquently and talks about going back to the square one, which is on one line, it’s your work, your emotional life, your spiritual life and your physical life, and they should all be in balance. – 14:45
• What they found is that emotional pain and physical pain are virtually indistinguishable in the brain. – 16:57
• Using techniques like deep breathing, meditation, yoga, nutrition, good levels of exercise that are healthy, not over-training  – 20:22
• Using techniques like deep breathing, meditation, yoga, nutrition, good levels of exercise that are healthy, not over-training – 23:30
• We don’t realize that we act in ways that are reflective of these things that have happened to us. – 26:33
• What’s really interesting about touch and music is they activate the emotional cortex in the brain, – 29:47
• Apollo is not a wearable tracker, really. It’s more of a wearable intervention. It’s a wearable therapeutic. – 32:25
• There’s a term called nocebo, which is the power, the belief that something will not work for us. And that’s even stronger in a lot of cases than the placebo effect. – 36:30
• Breath work is one of the most powerful techniques for controlling and managing homeostasis or the balance between our stress response and our recovery response nervous system  – 42:02
• Pairing breath and Apollo works incredibly well together, especially for people who are learning to debrief for the first time. – 48:25

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