Cortisol Doctor Explains Visceral Fat, HRV, and How to Lower Stress (immediately)

Use Code THOMAS20 for 20% off Your First Order of SEED: https://www.seed.com/thomasyt Dr. Rabin's Website: https://www.drdave.io/ Follow Dr. Rabin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdavidrabin/ This video does contain a paid partnership with a brand that helps to support this channel. It is because of brands like this that we are able to provide the content that we do for free. Click HERE to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasDeLauerOfficial?sub_confirmation=1 Please check out the new Shorts channel, DeLauer Clips and Workouts, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPQImPsw74KhO0Zy2-leyA/videos Please Subscribe to my Email Newsletter Here: https://www.thomasdelauer.com/life-optimization-tactics/ Follow More of My Daily Life on Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/ThomasDeLauer Timestamps ⏱ 0:00 - Intro 0:15 - Cortisol, HRV, and Chronic Stress - How They're All Connected 7:15 - Why HRV Is a Better Biomarker Than Cortisol 8:05 - 20% off Your First Order of SEED 8:50 - What Disrupts HRV the Most 10:30 - How to Use HRV as a Recovery Tool 13:15 - Stress, Visceral Fat, and Mitochondrial Function 15:00 - The Six Survival Needs That Drive the Fight or Flight Response 19:15 - Breaking Out of Chronic Stress - Is a Pattern Interrupt Needed? 20:00 - Redefining the Game - Accumulation vs Being in Tune 22:30 - Play, Presence, and the Alan Watts Connection 24:30 - The Means Manifest the Ends - Why Process Beats Goals 28:20 - Listening, Data, Information, Knowledge & Wisdom 30:05 - Somatic Techniques and Coming Back to the Body 35:25 - Safety as the Master Switch for Metabolism and Healing 39:00 - The Amygdala, Contrast Detection, and Information Overload 40:00 - Training the Attentional Muscle to Filter Out Stress 43:30 - Attention as the Gateway to Consciousness 45:50 - You Are Not Your Thoughts - Thought Questioning Explained 50:45 - Teaching Kids Emotional Awareness and Interoception 53:20 - Resilience - Raising Your Threshold vs Building Flexibility 55:00 - What Happens When You Can't Come Back Down - PTSD and Military Veterans 57:25 - HRV, Vagal Tone, and the Real Definition of Resilience 58:25 - Cold Plunge and Discomfort Tolerance Training 1:06:10 - Eustress vs Distress - How to Shift Your Relationship With Stress 1:07:40 - Asking Better Questions When You're Under Pressure 1:09:20 - Big T vs Little T Trauma - Gabor Mate's Framework 1:12:50 - When Trauma Gets Stored on the Epigenetic Code 1:15:40 - How Psychedelics Accelerate Trauma Healing 1:16:10 - Ketamine - What It Actually Does in the Brain 1:21:00 - Psilocybin, 5-HT2A, and the Neuroscience of Meaning Making 1:23:40 - Why SSRIs Cause Numbness and What Burst Activation Does Instead 1:25:00 - How Psychedelics Create New Memories and Change Self-Identity 1:27:25 - MDMA + MAPS Study - Reversing Trauma at the Epigenetic Level 1:29:30 - Epigenetics vs Genetics - Why This Is the Hopeful Part 1:33:00 - Ketamine + Ketones for Anorexia - The Most Promising Intervention Yet 1:35:00 - Legal Psychedelics, Rescheduling, and What's on the Horizon 1:36:30 - Is Consciousness Universal? Eastern vs Western Perspectives 1:39:00 - Bridging Eastern and Western Medicine - Where They Need to Meet 1:45:25 - Why Western Medicine Fails at Chronic Illness 1:48:35 - The Amygdala, Racism, and Why Safety Makes Us Open to New Ideas 1:53:00 - Intuition, Intent, and Human Beings as Giant Sensory Organs 2:03:00 - Time Dilation and Psychedelics - Einstein's Theory Applied 2:07:45 - Psychedelics in Recreational vs Therapeutic Settings 2:08:15 - What You Can Do Right Now - Apollo, Breathing, and Free Tools 2:16:15 - Where to Find More of Dr. Rabin