The American Institute of Stress reported that 33% of individuals experience extreme stress, of which 73% struggle with stress-related mental health issues. We have Dr. David Rabin to discuss the prevalence of chronic stress in today's world and how breathwork, heart rate variability, and touch play a role in significantly modulating stress experience. Speaking into the evolution of the 'hardwired' stress response and how the flight, fright, freeze response applies to the current world, Dr. David speaks into the type of breathing that can navigate the stress response, as well as how consistent practice can change the game for anxiety and discomfort related to uncertainty. Then, Dr. David touches base with heart rate variability as a marker of resilience and recovery. Finally, he discusses the neurobiology of touch and how it can elicit the same parasympathetic (rest, digest, recover) response as breathwork can. Explaining the neuroscience behind the Apollo device, he explains the 7 different experiences that can be targeted through the skin and how the Apollo device targets these skin experiences. Finally, he dives into self-medication and how addictive behaviours and binging on Netflix are behaviours of discomfort avoidance, providing efficient and optimal tools to navigate discomfort. Learn how you can community safety to the brain through non-invasive treatment!

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What You Will Learn In This interview Interview with Dr. David Rabin:

4:14 - What chronic stress is and how it affects the body?

8:50 - Does the stress response differ between encountering a lion or work stress?

14:27 - Does the type of breathing matter when it comes to chronic stress?

19:01 - Do you need to do breathwork every day?

24:26 - Heart rate variability

30:08 - Healing touch

34:59 - Apollo Device

40:08 - We have 7 different songs for the skin

47:32 - Learn more with Dr Dave

48:40 - Self-medication & discomfort avoidance

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To learn more about Dr. David view full show notes, please visit the full website here: https://www.docjenfit.com/podcast/episode249/

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