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Whats up, and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. And this episode is all about neuroplasticity, sustaining the power to be taught as we age, and the neuroscience of the stress response and our nervous programs. And I’m right here with a private good friend of mine, Dr. David Rabin, who’s an MD and a PhD. He’s a neuroscientist, a board-certified psychiatrist, a well being entrepreneur, and an inventor. And he’s been learning the influence of continual stress in people for greater than a decade. He’s additionally the co-founder and CMO at Apollo Neuro, which has developed the primary scientifically validated wearable expertise that actively improves vitality, focus, leisure, and contact remedy that alerts security to the mind. We speak quite a bit about that exact side of that at present, however in addition to many methods we will all do at house and without charge to sign our nervous system that it’s protected and the way, even when we don’t really feel harassed, if our nervous system is getting the sign that it’s not protected, how this will maintain us in struggle or flight and maintain us out of relaxation and digest, can influence our sleep and our focus, and a lot extra. Dr. Dave might be one of many smartest individuals I do know, and he’s at all times fascinating to speak to. So let’s be part of him now. Dr. Dave, welcome again. Thanks for returning to the podcast.
Dave: Thanks a lot for having me. It’s at all times a pleasure to be right here with you.
Katie: Effectively, it’s at all times so enjoyable to have a dialog with you, and I’m excited for our subjects at present, particularly I feel these are very related to mothers and households, particularly, and we’re going to get to get actually sensible in among the options to this. However to start out broad for the context for this dialog, I might love to speak about nervous system well being usually. We’ve heard the phrases struggle or flight, relaxation and digest. These are, after all, referring to components of the autonomic nervous system, however I might love your rationalization of those as base phrases earlier than we bounce into the nuance and the specifics.
Dave: Certain. And these phrases are actually necessary to know. I feel, you understand, my specialty in neuroscience is de facto round translational neuroscience, which implies how can we take these unbelievable discoveries that we’ve had within the subject during the last 50 years and, or longer, and truly translate them into issues that everyone can use and that may actually change all of our lives. In any other case, what’s the purpose of spending all these hundred billion {dollars} on analysis, proper?
So I feel that one of the vital superb issues we’ve realized during the last 50 years is about, as you stated, the autonomic nervous system, the struggle or flight, or what we name the sympathetic a part of the autonomic nervous system, after which the remaining and digest restoration half, which is known as the parasympathetic nervous system that’s ruled by the vagus nerve, which lots of people have been speaking about extra these days as a result of vagus nerve exercise is required for our our bodies to calm down and to enter restoration. And that’s activated by security.
So after we, security being which means we, no threats to our survival, no threats to lack of meals, now we have loads of meals, loads of water, loads of air, and loads of acceptance by our neighborhood and no predators round, proper? That’s like precise security within the historical, developed survival sense of people and animals. After which after all, in modern-day society, now we have different points that we take into consideration quite a bit round security, like monetary security, and authorized security, and religious security, and that sort of factor. Normally, the autonomic nervous system runs within the background to control our breath and our coronary heart and our lungs and our our bodies’ perform by way of survival and restoration in order that we will shield ourselves and get to security after we’re within the presence of an precise survival risk, which is a kind of 4 or 5 issues I discussed earlier, issues that might really kill us. After which as soon as we get to security, to redirect all accessible blood stream again to our restoration nervous system, our, all the pieces from our creativity mind, our empathy and emotional mind, our digestive system, reproductive system, immune system, sleep and relaxation and restoration programs, proper? So all of these programs are programs we don’t need to be lively in getting assets after we’re operating from a bear or out of meals or out of water or air. However we actually need these to be lively after we’re protected and recovered.
Katie: That is smart. And it’s been talked about earlier than, however I feel there’s this concept in fashionable society, we don’t usually encounter that metaphorical tiger that’s going to chase us. Nevertheless, our nervous system may be getting the message that we’re not protected from numerous different alerts, particularly in fashionable society. So I might love to simply excessive stage contact on a few of these as a result of I feel usually we will get misplaced in the concept like, oh, I don’t really feel harassed, subsequently I’m not harassed. And that nuance of simply since you don’t really feel harassed, your nervous system may nonetheless really feel harassed. So what’s taking place in these conditions?
Dave: So the only strategy to perceive it’s what’s taking place in these conditions is overstimulation. So an excessive amount of data coming in within the type of gentle, sound, noise, building, obligations. Kids screaming and demanding our time, work demanding our time, existential risk of reports, worldwide issues happening that aren’t in our rapid circle however are nonetheless scary and overwhelming. And so, it’s actually that overstimulation that’s a mix of all the pieces that’s coming in that isn’t really a right away risk to us. However it’s one thing, they’re issues which can be, that may be scary or overwhelming that get confused for precise survival risk.
And our our bodies developed to understand all risk as risk, which signifies that no matter whether or not it’s an precise survival risk or whether or not it’s a perceived risk, like too many emails or too many obligations or an excessive amount of information, we nonetheless do the identical issues in our our bodies, which is we take all of our accessible blood stream and we ship it to the center, the lungs, the skeletal muscle groups, and the motor cortex and worry heart of our brains to get us out of a possible predator precise survival state of affairs. However everyone knows while you’re caught in visitors, while you’re answering emails, while you’re in a gathering and anyone appears at you humorous throughout the room, none of these are literally conditions the place your survival is in jeopardy, proper? So it’s vital for, that’s the place meditation, mindfulness, yoga, breathwork, Apollo, and different instruments are available as a result of all of those psychological and emotional instruments and methods assist us practice our minds to remind ourselves that this factor that’s overwhelming me proper now is just not an precise survival risk. So I can calm down, be within the second with what I’m doing, and redivert all of my assets again to my restoration nervous system that enables me to really feel higher and be extra resilient and recovered, like digestion, copy, immunity, creativity, empathy, sleep, and all of the stuff that truly issues after we’re really not below risk. Does that make sense?
Katie: It does. And it looks like with the inflow of all of these stuff you talked about within the fashionable world that our nervous system can understand as threats, that cultivating the power to downshift into parasympathetic is an precise talent that we have to dedicate intentionality to in at present’s world as a result of that inflow of inputs is just not going away. So let’s speak about…
Dave: It’s getting worse.
Katie: Yeah. So let’s speak about…
Dave: And so it’s by no means been extra necessary to do this stuff, to coach ourselves to do these methods. And it begins with our kids, by the way in which. The earlier we train our children to simply focus in your breath, the earlier they be taught to self-soothe, and the earlier they begin to automate their very own means to suppose by means of these difficult conditions of overstimulation we’re all going through. Sorry, I didn’t imply to interrupt.
Katie: No, that’s such an amazing level. And I feel maybe one of many strongest foundational abilities we can provide them is knowing and skill to assist regulate their very own nervous system. And I additionally know as a mother that always it looks like our nervous system tone type of units the tone for the entire home and that children feed off of our vitality fairly often. So let’s speak about a few of these sensible methods for downshifting our nervous system to letting our our bodies know that we’re protected, to possibly stimulating the vagus nerve. What are among the issues we will do and train our children to do?
Dave: It’s an amazing query. And I like speaking about this as a result of that is the place we will make an actual dent in our well being and well-being of not simply ourselves, which is, after all, the place it begins, however with our households, proper? And that extends out to everybody that is available in contact with us.
And so the very first thing, I break this down into six issues. The primary and most necessary is intentional respiratory. So after we take into consideration what respiratory is and what we’re all taught it’s as youngsters, myself included, we have been taught, even in medical college, we have been taught that respiratory simply occurs and the physique regulates it by itself. It’s autonomic or automated. And it’s true, it does. However in case you take a look at what the medical literature says is regular respiratory, which is mainly the speed that most individuals breathe at once they come to be measured within the physician’s workplace, it’s like 12 to 24 breaths per minute. And while you really take a look at what 12 to 24 breaths per minute is, that’s stress respiratory. As a result of after we enter calm states, meditative states, and by directing our consideration to our breath, which is what we name intentional respiratory, that’s the place we really say, I’m going to take management of my breath proper now and simply take note of it and select to breathe in and select to breathe out. Quite than simply letting my physique do it mechanically in response to the atmosphere, what you’re doing is you’re taking management of one of the vital elementary components of our physique’s means to work together with the atmosphere by alternative, proper?
And in order that does two issues. It, primary, brings our breath fee right into a extra recovery-based fee, which isn’t 12 to 24 breaths per minute. It’s really nearer to 5 to seven breaths per minute. And after we enter 5 to seven breaths per minute, our coronary heart fee slows down, our blood strain comes down, our ideas begin to decelerate, and we really feel all this inside as little as three to 5 minutes. And we will really feel pressure beginning to depart our our bodies from our shoulders, our again, our legs, wherever we retailer pressure. And it simply nearly instantly places it in a spot of feeling calm, centered, and in management, which is just like the core foundation of stream and mindfulness and meditation methods. That’s the place all of it begins. In order that’s numero uno, most necessary factor that we will do ourselves is simply saying, with out serious about any approach, simply being, simply directing our consideration to our breath. And inhaling deliberately as a result of we selected to for filling our lungs as a lot as we will, after which respiratory out and emptying our lungs as a lot as we will every breath, and simply doing that for 2 to 5 minutes, as usually as we will keep in mind. After which I can get into the opposite 5 key issues which can be all associated if you would like me to go there subsequent.
Katie: I might love so that you can rapidly although, if we turn into intentional about our respiratory, does that over time affect our regular autonomic respiratory response as effectively? In different phrases, like I feel my respiration at night time is like 11 breaths per minute. If I get intentional with respiratory, can I decelerate my respiratory even after I’m asleep?
Dave: Completely. And also you’re as a result of as we practice our our bodies to be in a extra calm or parasympathetic or vagal dominant restoration state, then that permeates into all components of our lives as a result of we’re displaying ourselves that we will get ourselves right into a state of calm wherever we’re.
And that’s how Apollo works, proper? It’s sending the soothing vibrations at that rhythm of our very best breath to our our bodies after which it, with sound waves. After which the sound waves remind our our bodies to enter that 5 to seven breaths per minute state on their very own for these of us who by no means realized how to do this. In order that’s, so sure, the entire, and the entire concept is apply makes mastery, which is what all of our, all of our mother and father instructed us rising up, apply makes excellent, proper? Nevertheless it’s actually mastery as a result of there’s no such factor as perfection. So Eric R. Kandel received the Nobel Prize for this in 2000, displaying that by working towards these methods like intentional respiratory, that we really train and retrain our minds and our our bodies to enter these states on a regular basis, even after we sleep.
Katie: Superior. Okay. So yeah, let’s go into the opposite methods as effectively.
Dave: So the opposite methods are very comparable in that they’re all intentional. So intention is necessary. It’s directing our consideration to and our vitality into the duty. And they’re: motion, intentional motion. Taking management of our motion at any second. That might be like stretching or it might be strolling or train, dancing, et cetera. Soothing contact, whether or not we give it to ourselves or we consensually work together with soothing contact with one other, a liked one or anyone we belief. Soothing music or intentional listening, which is together with listening to, selecting to take heed to one thing as a result of we need to, and in addition selecting to provide sound. So singing is a really highly effective strategy to improve restoration within the physique and assist us enter these pure respiratory rhythms. And the final two are intentional diet. So numerous stuff that you simply speak about, proper? Being considerate about what gas we’re placing into the tremendous excessive performing car of our our bodies. That’s the highest performing, most fancy car and factor we’ll ever possess in our lives on this life, deal with it prefer it’s the fanciest automobile you’ve ever had, proper? That’s the way in which we have to be respecting our our bodies with the vitamins we put into it. Intentional diet and thoughtfulness about what we, what gas we’re placing into the engine. And the final one is intent, is sleep and relaxation.
And so in case you, if we take into consideration these six issues and, and specializing in instructing or, you understand, focusing these, you understand, doing these issues for ourselves after which instructing our children to do it from a younger age, then they be taught one of the vital necessary, two of a very powerful talent units that we will train any human being, that are primary, or three, three, three issues. One, the thoughts and the physique are related, not separate. What occurs in right here unfolds down right here. And what we really feel in right here unfolds up right here. There’s no separation.
Quantity two, most necessary factor we train our kids or that any human being is we’re answerable for our consideration. Our consideration is the gateway into our consciousness. If we permit the atmosphere to decide on what we take note of, then we’re going to be on the whim of the atmosphere. If we be taught to regulate our consideration, then we will, which Jim Kwik talks about and lots of different individuals speak about, proper? That’s how we really take management over our lives and really feel extra in management on a regular basis, which successfully leads to minimal anxiousness all through our lives and maximal emotions of management. So the extra in management we really feel, the extra we take note of issues we really feel we’re in management over, like our breath, like our motion, like the opposite issues I discussed, contact, music, listening, et cetera, the extra in management we really feel and the much less anxiousness we really feel.
And the consequence of that, these first two issues, is the third actually necessary factor we train individuals, vital factor, which is to self-soothe, proper? So it’s after we really feel uncomfortable in any state of affairs, simply recognizing it, being conscious of it, not judging it, not attempting to keep away from it, simply noticing it and asking ourselves, proper? Inquiring, why am I feeling this manner? And attempting to love perceive ourselves by understanding and diving into that discomfort is definitely a means that, it’s one of the simplest ways that we develop as human beings.
Katie: Effectively, and also you talked about the Apollo. I’ll make sure that I put a hyperlink to that within the present notes so individuals can be taught extra about it. I do know you will have an amazing quantity of academic data accessible as effectively about these to go deeper on all of those subjects. However I additionally need to make sure that now we have time to speak in regards to the time period neuroplasticity as a result of this one has, I really feel like, gotten extra fashionable these days, however it’s nonetheless possibly not effectively understood. And I feel if I’m remembering appropriately, it was once thought that our brains have been type of static or that we didn’t have the power to regenerate mind tissue or to be taught after a sure age in the identical means. And it looks like this has been largely confirmed not true. However I do know additionally I obtained to see your current course about neuroplasticity, and I’m fascinated by this. So to start out off, are you able to outline neuroplasticity for anyone who’s not aware of the time period after which possibly give us some methods to enhance that?
Dave: Yeah, completely. And this is likely one of the most necessary subjects of our time by way of issues that we will go down from neuroscience discoveries to the remainder of the world, which, as you stated, you understand, it’s dispelling this concept which you can’t train outdated canines new tips. Proper. We be taught for our total lives. And neuroplasticity is de facto just like the neuroscience time period for studying. And it means it actually encompasses three issues, which you don’t actually need to recollect for this, however simply so that you perceive that these three pathways of neuroplasticity are what we name synaptogenesis, which is the commonest, which is the constructing of, and the creation of recent networks between our neurons and our brains. So constructing extra connections between current neurons and neural cells. That’s how like we make reminiscences, for example. Quantity two is neurogenesis. So it’s the making of recent neurons, which was proven by various people, together with one in all my mentors in my graduate coaching, Dr. Sally Temple, who was one of many first individuals to point out that older animals and folks nonetheless make new neurons of their brains. And quantity three is an important discovery. And quantity three is neuro regeneration. So it’s really the restore of outdated and dying neurons. So these are the three ways in which we, three classes of neuroplasticity, which is definitely what’s taking place within the mind as we be taught new issues.
Katie: That’s fascinating. And I’m glad to listen to which you can, actually, train an outdated canine new tips. What does this imply for our children, particularly? I might guess there’s this tie-in with the stress response. So if we’re in struggle or flight, we’re most likely not studying new issues very simply. We’re most likely not very neuroplastic, however are there methods to enhance that? Are there dietary issues that may assist? How can we improve our neuroplasticity whilst we grow old?
Dave: So I feel the principle takeaway from all of that is, once more, going again to what we began speaking about to start with of our dialog, which is this concept of security unlocks restoration. And a part of restoration is studying, proper? And after we really feel, after we’re below risk or our our bodies understand, our our bodies and minds understand ourselves to be below risk, even when it’s too many emails or an excessive amount of stimulation, it’s not really a survival risk. If we, after we’re in these conditions of continual stress, we’re not studying. Now we have tunnel imaginative and prescient. And our consideration is targeted on, like, struggle or flight responses, not, not studying new issues as a result of after we’re below risk or we’re below continual stress, our, our autonomic nervous system really, purposefully decreases assets to studying new issues as a result of new issues are unfamiliar to us. And issues which can be unfamiliar are accompanied by this overwhelming concept of uncertainty and the unknown. Proper.
So if you concentrate on like, why is why is it so laborious to alter an outdated behavior after we’re wired? And why is it really easy to return to the Häagen-Dazs and Netflix? Proper. Or the quick meals? It’s as a result of these issues, though they’re not good for us, are acquainted. And so after we’re below risk or feeling actually wired, we have a tendency to return to these issues as a result of we’ve realized an related familiarity with these issues. And neurologically talking and evolutionarily talking, familiarity brings security, a way of security together with it, even when it’s not really serving to us really feel higher, proper? And unfamiliarity or newness, studying new issues brings with it a way of uncertainty as a result of they’re new to us. And uncertainty is horrifying. Including extra uncertainty to our lives is horrifying after we’re already overwhelmed and wired, proper?
So our physique opposes, biologically talking, our our bodies oppose studying new issues after we are below risk or stress. And in order that’s why serving to children really feel protected and adults, anyone, however, however particularly with youngsters who’re significantly better, a lot, you understand, they’re much more neuroplastic than adults. To allow them to be taught extra rapidly. They’ll be taught, you understand, way more quickly and serving to children really feel protected to be taught, protected to make errors, proper? Trigger they don’t know they’re, they’re new to this, proper. And protected to discover nonjudgmentally, protected to find issues about themselves, protected to ask any query with out making them really feel silly, proper. It’s these little issues along with the protection methods that I discussed earlier with the respiratory and the motion and all these things that they know that, that they’re, they’re like in a protected place to be taught. And after we reinforce that for our kids, abruptly, studying turns into enjoyable for them, proper. It turns into enjoyable and it turns into one thing that they self, they drive themselves in direction of as a result of it’s so rewarding and uncover, like while you after we train individuals find out how to be taught correctly once more, you understand, going again to Jim Kwik as a result of I’ve simply seen him this week. He’s so keen about this as a result of studying is the liberty to find who we’re. Proper. And what we’re able to on this life. And so if we may help ourselves really feel protected sufficient to do this, abruptly life will get actually, actually enjoyable and thrilling. And discovery is like among the best components of being alive.
Katie: Yeah, and I feel children are our greatest lecturers in that if we allow them to be as a result of they’re so pure at it. However that’s such an amazing level. I’ll, after all, be sure that that course on neuroplasticity is linked within the present notes as a result of I feel it’s fascinating. And there’s a lot extra in there than we will cowl on this. And I do know we’re going to get to do one other episode the place we’re going to get to go deep on creating that security and that nervous system regulation for the entire household. However I additionally need to briefly make sure that we contact on Apollo. And, after all, I’ll hyperlink to that as effectively. However are you able to simply briefly clarify the way it works and the way it may be useful? I do know I exploit it with my children as effectively, however the way it may help with that nervous system regulation.
Dave: So Apollo is a wearable expertise that we developed that I discussed earlier out of my analysis on the College of Pittsburgh within the Division of Psychiatry, the place we have been attempting to know what we have been speaking about earlier, which is that this worry response, this sympathetic struggle or flight response, and why so many people, particularly, so many people even who’re even wholesome, simply dwelling busy lives, but additionally particularly these of us who are suffering from continual psychological diseases or have been recognized with a psychological sickness actually wrestle with, and why, and the way the nervous system is impacted by that, and what stress does to our biology, not simply to what’s happening up right here.
And in order we began to find that within the lab, we realized there’s numerous commonality between the way in which the analysis that had been executed in animal fashions and the way in which they reply to stress and the way in which that people reply to stress. Even when we return surprisingly, like lots of of hundreds of thousands of years, that historical animals’ nervous programs are responding to emphasize and security in a really comparable means that we reply to stress and security. And so after we begin to perceive that, that is once more from Eric Kandel’s Nobel Prize successful work in 2000, we really begin to be taught quite a bit in regards to the laborious wiring of the physique, proper? And what, like the principles we will change, the issues we will change about ourselves and the issues that we’re born with they usually’re caught that means, proper?
And so by means of research of these pathways, we discovered that the majority of us, after we’re overwhelmed, after we’re harassed, when now we have a psychological well being analysis, our our bodies are in a state of fixed risk on a regular basis. We really feel simply continuously threatened. Even simply having an excessive amount of stuff happening round us, like an excessive amount of noise, too many emails, too many obligations, an excessive amount of visitors, all of that’s rising exercise in our stress response system. And once more, this makes it laborious to be taught new issues, laborious to be inventive, laborious to be empathetic and delicate to our associates, household, coworkers, laborious to focus, laborious to sleep. It makes absorption of our meals worse. It makes our basic intestine well being worse. It makes our reproductivity worse and really difficult. The most important explanation for reproductive points in women and men is anxiousness. So this can be a actual challenge. And our immune system will get tousled, proper? So we get sick extra usually after we’re wired.
And so what we discovered was that, that we might take soothing sensations, like the sensation of soothing contact, like getting a hug, or holding a purring pet. And that truly has a organic influence on our our bodies that just about mechanically, inside as little as two to 5 minutes, identical to respiratory, nudges the physique into a relaxed, relaxed, meditative state with out us having to do something. It simply does it. And that we developed to do this as a result of all historical mammals additionally 100 or 200 million years outdated because the first mammals have all used soothing contact once they nurse their younger, once they first are born till they will maintain themselves. And that’s non-verbal, proper? It’s simply hug, breastfeeding, proper? It’s almost instantaneous, and it requires no effort to obtain that security from the mom. Proper.
And in order that from understanding these developed pathways, we stated, okay, effectively, what if we might put that feeling of soothing contact, or at the very least a part of it, right into a wearable that you possibly can take with you in all places. And so we discovered find out how to do it, that lengthy story quick, with sound waves which can be on the particular rhythm of our very best breath sample, which is about 5 to seven breaths per minute. After which while you ship that soothing sound waves to the physique within the type of the Apollo Wearable, which you’ll put on wherever in your physique, I’m carrying it on my ankle proper now, it’s in regards to the dimension of an Apple watch. And while you ship that rhythm to the physique, the physique says two issues. I really feel protected sufficient to really feel this so I can’t be below risk. And in order that will increase vagus nerve exercise, which will increase restoration in our our bodies and sleep and our means to really feel protected in our personal pores and skin and really feel clear, current, and targeted.
And quantity two is it nudges our our bodies into our very best breath rhythm of 5 to seven breaths per minute and away from our stress breath rhythm, which is 12 to 24 breaths per minute. And so these two mixed can comparatively, quickly improve the states of restoration within the physique and vagus nerve tone, not simply within the second, but additionally over time to the tune of 30 to 60 extra minutes of sleep an evening, concentrated in deep and REM sleep, which is leaps and bounds higher than any pharmaceutical sleep assist, and elevated coronary heart fee variability and decreased resting coronary heart fee and dramatically diminished stress and emotions of calm, focus, and vitality. So that’s the device that we developed on the College of Pittsburgh. It’s been accessible since 2020 that we’re excited to share with the world.
Katie: And like I stated, I’ll hyperlink to that within the present notes for individuals listening on the go. Hopefully you’re taking a stroll within the sunshine, however all of these hyperlinks will likely be at wellnessmama.com. And Dr. Dave, you’re at all times so fascinating to speak to. I at all times be taught a lot. Thanks a lot to your time and being right here.
Dave: It’s my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
Katie: And thanks as at all times to all of you for listening. And I hope you’ll be part of me once more on the following episode of the Wellness Mama Podcast.
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