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First of all, Dr. James, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Of course, my pleasure.

You started this by putting an Apollo on my polo. And I feel... So this is very odd how... Like, I almost feel like emotional. Especially since it's right next to my heart. I don't... Can you tell me what this is doing? Yeah, you walked in. You're walking fast. Yeah. But we were both running late, but you didn't know I was running late. And then we just

got on the same vibe together, whereby the same thing that we would do if we sat in deep breathed

for two to three minutes. But Apollo sends the rhythm of that breath rate to our bodies.

And it's a technology that we've proven at the

University of Pittsburgh that can help address some of the burden of PTSD and trauma, but

works to calm and reduce stress and improve focus and cognitive capacity for everyone.

I mean, I'm breathing deeper. I do hot yoga.

And because of that, I have awareness around breath.

I'm still, what's funny about me for how much I love to connect with people and how open I am, I can still get really, like,

when it comes to, like, group, like, please don't make me do, like, a fucking group breath work. You know, like, and sometimes I'll do it, but, like, you know, like a sound bath, like that kind of stuff feels a little too, and it's really hard for me to tap in. Yeah. So if you were to say to me, do you want to sit down and do some breath for a second?

I would be like, fuck me, okay.

And I would do it, but I wouldn't mentally be there. in. Yeah. So if you were to say to me, do you want to sit down and do some breath for a second,

I would be like, fuck me.

Okay.

And I would do it, but I wouldn't mentally be there. You wouldn't fully drop in. I can't do it sometimes. And that's okay. I'll get there at some point. But this is doing that for me. Oh, that's great. Which is so cool. So let me ask, can I ask you a question about that?

I'm a lot of question.

So have you ever had that experience, a similar experience when, like, your favorite

song comes on when you're having a bad day and you instantly feel better?

Yeah, yeah.

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