This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

Good morning, we've got Dr David Raven,

a board certified psychiatrist

and translational neuroscientist.

He is the chief innovation officer, co-founder and co-inventor at Apollo Neuroscience,

and has been studying resilience in the impact of chronic stress in humans for over a decade.

Dr. Raybon has also organized the world's largest controlled study of psychedelic medicines in collaboration with colleagues at Yale, the University of Southern California,

Modern Spirit and Maps the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychodelic Studies to determine the mechanisms

of the dramatic therapeutic benefits observed

following psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and treatment

resistant mental illness. Welcome Dr. Raven, thank you for your time this morning.

Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. It's a pleasure to be here at this

auspicious time.

Absolutely, and we were speaking a little bit off air, but I think it would be really fantastic for us to really

focus the conversation today on COVID-19, you know what is happening for so

many of us even those of us who like to believe that we're always

calm, cool, and collected, you know, really diving into the physiology of

what's happening for us and you know how we can better prepare for what's to come.

Absolutely. I think, you know, it's important to recognize that none of us are immune to this psychologically or physically.

So I think that when there's any kind of hint even

of a threat around us that's this significant,

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