EFR 668: Using Virtual Reality to Treat Chronic Pain, Increase HRV, and Improve Mental Health with Celine Tien
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5.0 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Celine Tien is here to talk about the virtual reality (VR) platform Flowly for those with chronic pain/illness and using biofeedback to take control of your nervous system.
Feeling just a little bit better each day can have a massive domino effect on your life. Celine's greatest advice is to go out and find that thing that's going to create that domino effect. It could be going on a daily walk, it could be cutting out caffeine, or it could be Flowly…
Celine is the Founder and CEO of Flowly, a holistic brain-body program for retraining your autonomic nervous system. Flowly is NIH-backed and studied by UPMC and USC as an opioid-sparing pain management device. With Flowly, you can learn to shift your body from pain to flow state.
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Key Highlights
- Do we need another piece of technology like Flowly to help our mental wellness? Who is Flowly for? Celine breaks down why VR is necessary for their target market: people with chronic pain and chronic illness. She shares how growing up around pancreatic cancer, an extremely painful, anxiety-inducing illness, became the inspiration behind Flowly.
- Celine shines light on how she's taking care of her mental health as an entrepreneur and founder of a start-up. She emphasizes the importance of leaning on your community and practicing receiving feedback and help.
- What is biofeedback? Celine explains what it is and how it can help you learn to relax and shift your body into the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest mode). This can lead to better sleep, better recovery, and increased HRV (heart rate variability).
- Celine highlights the science behind Flowly, the accessibility and inclusivity of this technology, and the results they're seeing in patients, including a 50% reduction in opioid usage! She then shares her thoughts on the opioid epidemic and their mission for patients using opioids.
- What is the Flowly user experience? Celine describes what it's like to use Flowly and join the Flowly community. Chase also shares a bit about his experience using it.
- What's next for the future of VR? What are some other potential uses of Flowly?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an Operation Podcast Production. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, my name is Saline Tien. I'm the CEO and founder Flowley and today on Everforward Radio, |
| 0:09.0 | we're talking about how to use virtual reality and biofeedback to take control of your nervous system, |
| 0:14.7 | building a platform for people with chronic illness, and how to live and feel better each day. |
| 0:19.1 | Today's episode, we're going to be talking a lot about mental health and a lot of things that you can do to influence |
| 0:24.6 | and increase the levels of your mental health and even your relationship with the |
| 0:28.5 | term mental health. But here's something that you might not think of when it comes to improving your mental health. |
| 0:35.0 | That's coffee, caffeine. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, that's because a lot of coffees, not only are they not organic, which means they most likely are going to be having a variety of chemicals, herbicides, pesticides. |
| 0:47.0 | Coffee is one of the most widely unregulated substances out there because every country from which it comes they have their own regulatory |
| 0:54.3 | processes so there's no universal governing body so unless you're getting organic |
| 0:58.2 | coffee like I do from strong coffee company you might not want to put that stuff in your body because a lot of these things that we |
| 1:07.6 | digest that we metabolize, certain items can cross the blood brain barrier. |
| 1:13.4 | So if anything that I'm consuming, especially in my morning daily go-to |
| 1:17.6 | cup of Joe, is crossing that blood brain barrier, |
| 1:20.8 | I wanted to actually benefit my brain, benefit my mental health. So lucky for me, lucky for you, |
| 1:27.8 | Strong Coffies, instant black coffee is packed with adaptogens like Neurofactor |
| 1:32.2 | and Ashwaganda, |
| 1:33.5 | El Thianine that are going to support cognition |
| 1:37.1 | and a healthy brain. |
| 1:38.3 | Personally, the ashwaganda, I want to bring your attention to. |
| 1:40.8 | This is an incredible adaptogen that is like consuming a cup of coffee to get you focused to get you dialed in |
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