Breathwork and Psychedelics for Better Mental Health with Dr. Geoff Lecovin
High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS
Mike Mutzel
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Geoff Lecovin shares strategies to improve mental and emotional health with breathing techniques and psychedelics.
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05:00 Micro dose of psilocybin is a sub intoxicating dose. Under 500 mg is considered a micro dose. Over 2 grams is a psychedelic experience.
10:00 Holotropic breathwork can lead to an altered state with no entheogens. It can make changes in your brain, upregulating anandamide, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.
11:30 Sativa effects the mind and can make you anxious. Indica effects the body in a way that is called the Couch Slouch. They can be combined to bring about the benefits of both.
14:00 Your pH is changed with the blow off of carbon dioxide with breathwork
16:00 Mouth breathing during breathwork brings a more emotional and sympathetic response in continuous breathwork. Nasal breathing increases nitric oxide and prepares the breath for your lungs.
16:50 There are two types of breath holds: one on inspiration and one on expiration. Expiration breath holds bring short term hypoxia, which stimulates healthy chemicals and neurotransmitters. On the inspiration hold, is for connecting with spiritual collective.
20:00 With breathwork you are in a higher suggestible state and more connected state.
21:30 Contraindications for breathwork can be heart problems, uncontrolled high blood pressure, or schizophrenia.
25:52 Breathwork can positively impact HIIT, repair and increases in red blood cells and stem cells. It is anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing.
27:00 Mindset changes your physiology.
27:50 Entheogens are substances that when ingested bring about a non-ordinary state.
29:00 A “threshold dose” of psilocybin is 3 ½ grams.
34:40 During his psychedelic journeys Dr. Lecovin feels gets messages for people.
35:30 The mystical experience of the journey is what helps with the healing.
40:35 Psychedelics do not stimulate the reward centers in your brain, so they are not addictive.
47:15 You don’t lose control when you are experiencing a psychedelic journey. You will come back.
50:30 People who recreationally use mushrooms have significantly lower feelings of anxiety or depression.
53:55 Psychedelics bring neuroplasticity. You feel better the next day.
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| 0:00.0 | So it's continuous conscious breathing, no rust between the inhale and the exhale, so it'll be like |
| 0:07.5 | generally you want to breathe through your nose, right? Because your nose, your increasing |
| 0:11.0 | nitric oxide, you're preparing the breath for the lungs. It's a much healthier way of breathing. |
| 0:17.3 | For this type of breath work, I'm having people breathe through the mouth and the reason is you get |
| 0:22.8 | more of an emotional and sympathetic type of response. So it's a way of accessing stored |
| 0:31.4 | emotions and trauma that are oftentimes stored in your heart or your gut. And so you do this |
| 0:38.5 | continuous breath work and after you've done the repetition for a little bit, that's when you do |
| 0:43.8 | your breath holds. And people like Wim Hof, he does his breath holds primarily on |
| 0:49.6 | expirations. So they'll have you breathe in and then breathe out and hold it for like one to two |
| 0:53.6 | minutes. And then what so what we're doing, what I was taught through Soma is that there's two types |
| 0:58.4 | of breath holds. One on inspiration, one on expiration. She started with the expiration first, |
| 1:02.8 | blow it all the air. And that's when you start a lot of times feeling that tingling. And that's when |
| 1:07.4 | your mind is going to start to wander and you're going to get past that default mode network. |
| 1:12.6 | And then you're perturbing your system in a good way, creating a positive stressor. That's |
| 1:17.5 | where you get like a short-term hypoxia. And that stimulates all those chemicals, those healthy chemicals |
| 1:23.6 | that go with talking about like an animal. So on other neurotransmitters. |
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