In this episode of the ANEW Insight Podcast, I sit down with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Helen Lavretsky, whose groundbreaking research at UCLA bridges ancient practices like yoga and pranayama with modern neuroscience.
Her work explores how something as simple as breathing can reprogram the brain, regulate the nervous system, and even slow biological aging.
We discuss the science behind breathwork—from parasympathetic activation and stress reduction to epigenetic changes that improve gene expression and reverse markers of aging. Below, I unpack the key insights from our conversation and offer practical ways to use breathwork to strengthen your mental and physical resilience.
When Science Meets Stillness: Breathwork’s Clinical Beginnings
Like many transformative discoveries, Dr. Lavretsky’s research began with personal experience.
Years into her academic career, she faced the relentless pressures of modern life—balancing work, caregiving, and family. The stress was unrelenting until a chance encounter with a Kundalini yoga teacher on a Hawaiian beach changed everything.
The experience sparked a 15-year journey into breath-centered practices, which she later translated into neuroscience research. Her first clinical trial on dementia caregivers revealed something remarkable: controlled breathing reduced stress, improved immune markers, and slowed cellular aging.
At the time, her colleagues considered yoga “woo-woo.” But today, her findings have earned international recognition—and paved the way for a new field: Integrative Psychiatry.
Breathing as Biology: How It Regulates the Nervous System
Our breath is the only automatic body function we can consciously control, acting as a bridge between mind and body.
When we intentionally slow down our breathing—about 4–6 breaths per minute—we activate the vagus nerve, shifting the body into parasympathetic mode, the state of rest, repair, and restoration.
This simple act lowers heart rate and blood pressure, calms the amygdala (the brain’s fear center), and communicates safety to every organ system.
In a world where chronic stress, climate anxiety, and constant stimulation keep our nervous systems on high alert, breathwork becomes an essential reset button.
“It’s the best tool humans have,” Dr. Lavretsky explains.
“Once you master your breath, you can master your response to life.”
From Stress to Cells: The Epigenetics of Calm
Breathing doesn’t just change how we feel—it changes our biology.
Dr. Lavretsky’s lab studies epigenetics, the science of how behavior influences gene activity. Her research shows that conscious breathing can literally switch genes on or off—reducing inflammation, improving immune function, and promoting resilience at the cellular level.
Stress, on the other hand, triggers inflammatory pathways, accelerates telomere shortening (a marker of aging), and disrupts hormonal balance. Over time, this speeds up biological aging—even when outward health appears stable.
“Your consciousness controls your genetics,” Dr. Lavretsky says.
“When you choose calm, you rewrite the code your body lives by.”
Breathwork and Longevity: Turning Back the Biological Clock
One of Dr. Lavretsky’s most compelling studies involved dementia caregivers—a group known to experience accelerated biological aging due to chronic stress.
After just eight weeks of daily 11-minute breath meditation, participants showed improved immune markers and increased telomerase activity—the enzyme that maintains the protective caps on DNA strands. Longer telomeres are linked to slower aging, better mood, and greater stress resilience.
What’s even more powerful? Participants reported realizing, for the first time, that they could take time for themselves without guilt.
That mindset shift—away from constant doing, toward conscious being—proved as therapeutic as the breathwork itself.
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The Modern Breath Crisis: Fear, Media, and Disconnection
Dr. Lavretsky points out that we live in a “fear-driven society.” Our nervous systems are under siege—from alarming headlines, social comparison, and sensory overload.
This perpetual state of vigilance keeps the amygdala overactivated and suppresses restorative functions like digestion, sleep, and emotional regulation.
Breathwork provides an antidote to this modern overwhelm. Closing the eyes, breathing slowly, and focusing inward shuts down the noise of the external world, reestablishing a dialogue between brain, body, and consciousness.
This internal awareness, known as interoception, helps us tune into signals like hunger, fullness, and fatigue—cues that are often muted in chronic stress or emotional eating.
Breathwork for Emotional Eating and Body Awareness
As a clinical psychologist and dietitian, I often see clients who are completely disconnected from their bodies. They live in their heads, intellectualizing every decision—especially around food.
Breathwork helps them reinhabit the body.
By focusing on the rise and fall of the breath before meals, clients begin to sense subtle cues of hunger and satisfaction. Over time, they replace impulsive eating with mindful nourishment, transforming food from a coping mechanism into a form of self-care.
If diet culture teaches us to control the body, breathwork teaches us to listen to it.
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From Mindfulness to Metabolism: Breathwork’s Role in Sleep and Recovery
One of the most overlooked benefits of breathwork is its impact on sleep.
Dr. Lavretsky notes that nearly all of her long-COVID patients struggle with insomnia, driven by inflammation and stress. Her first step is always the same: teach them to breathe.
Practicing a slow, extended exhale before bed (inhaling for 4, exhaling for 6–8) activates the vagus nerve and signals the body that it’s safe to rest. Within minutes, blood pressure drops, cortisol lowers, and sleep hormones begin to rise.
Consistent practice rewires this response—training the body to associate breathing with safety, not survival.
Breath as Medicine: A Free, Portable, Evidence-Based Tool
In an era of rising burnout, inflammation, and digital exhaustion, breathwork offers something revolutionary: a self-administered, side-effect-free prescription for calm.
It improves heart-rate variability, boosts immunity, enhances focus, and regulates digestion—no equipment required. And, as Dr. Lavretsky’s research shows, it doesn’t just make you feel younger—it can make you biologically younger.
You can start small:
- Inhale for 5 seconds, exhale for 5 seconds (5–10 minutes daily).
- Practice before meals, before sleep, or during moments of overwhelm.
- Over time, your brain rewires—replacing reactivity with presence.
Key Takeaways
- Breath regulates biology. Slow, paced breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system and reduces inflammation.
- Conscious calm changes your genes. Epigenetic research shows breathwork influences gene expression and immune balance.
- Stress accelerates aging; breathwork slows it. Daily practice can lengthen telomeres and improve cellular resilience.
- Mind-body connection is learned. Breath anchors interoception, essential for healing disordered eating and body image issues.
- Simple is powerful. You already have the best tool for stress relief and longevity—it’s free and always with you.
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dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Hello and welcome. I am thrilled and honored to have esteemed psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Helen Lavretsky with us today. Dr. Helen, thank you so much for joining me today.
Dr Lavretsky: Thank you for inviting me and, uh, good to be with you today.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Good to be with you too. I, uh, saw Dr. Helen’s, um, talk on breath work at the American Psychiatric Associations Conference in Los Angeles and was so impressed. With her work, her dedication, um, and her interest in breath work. I’ve always had an interest in breath work and incorporate it with my clients, uh, to help with their mental health.
So I just really wanted to get Dr. Helen on here so I could investigate breath work further. Before we start though, I’m gonna read a little bit about Dr. Helen and then we’ll get right into our questions. [00:01:00] Dr. Helen Lavretsky is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose lifelong fascination with healing. The whole person was sparked during her early medical training where she observed the powerful intersection between emotional resilience.
And physical wellbeing. As director of the Integrative Psychiatry Program at UCLA and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry, she has dedicated her career to exploring how ancient mind body practices like breath work can transform brain function, reverse biological aging, and support trauma recovery.
Her research combines clinical neuroscience. With Eastern wisdom, using tools like FMRI, genomics and heart rate variability to uncover how un, how conscious breathing shapes emotional regulation and enhances mental health. Through her work, Dr. Lavretsky is helping redefine what true [00:02:00] healing means in psychiatry.
Dr. Helen, welcome.
Dr Lavretsky: Thank you. Yes. Uh, we find the introduction as well.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Well, you are amazing and I was really impressed with your talk on breath work, so I’d love to dive in. I, I really love to explore inspiration and you have had an amazing career in psychiatry and neuroscience. Just tell us what initially inspired you to explore breath work as a clinical tool for healing trauma and improving mental health.
Dr Lavretsky: Uh, right. So it was all through my own experience with yoga, um, and I knew nothing about yoga until I needed it as a tool to cope with my stress, the amount of stress that I was under, uh, due to my career pressures and also family and raising a son, um, coming from all angles and taking care of my parents.
Um, and [00:03:00] I had no reliable tools to turn to in my life. I was searching. What would, you know, what would I need to cope with all of this? And finally, during a family vacation, I encountered a teacher who taught Kundalini yoga on the beach. And this was on the island of Lanai Hawaii, and it was like completely breathtaking, you know, combination of this very flowy, breathy, uh, meditative yoga, um, and the setting on in a lagoon.
That was completely devoid of people, you know, like just a few of us on the beach. And um, uh, when I returned to Los Angeles, I was totally determined to find another way to study it, and I found it in my then gym and I was at four o’clock on Saturday, but I went for the next year. Very intensively, but, uh, only three of us attended it and, uh, the class was eventually canceled and then I found a Kundalini yoga studio, more like [00:04:00] a yoga center or um, Mindful Practices Center, and that became my home for the next 15 years.
And that’s where I gained my knowledge, a lot of my knowledge and interest. And I noticed really profound changes in myself, in my immune system and my stress regulation, how I deal with stress. And I said, you know, we need to study this. It’s such a powerful tool. And the first study I did, yes, was very shortly after I like dedicated myself to the study of yoga.
And then, um, a man who I met during yoga teacher training. Actually sponsored the first study in dementia caregivers. This was like a match made in heaven, literally.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Oh, I love that. And, you know, I can completely relate. When I was starting my graduate studies, I got so stressed out and knew I just needed to do something, um, to manage stress. So for me it was, uh, meditation. I’d already, um, been a, a regular practicer [00:05:00] of, um, Pilates, which is very similar in certain ways to yoga.
Um, and it is a mind body exercise that utilizes the breath. That was life changing for me, so I would love to know how that, I mean, you, you were saying that that person helped to, um, mold and shape that study. Give me a picture of how you started to then study scientifically the use of breath work in healing.
Dr Lavretsky: So that first study in dementia caregivers was a very pivotal study for my career. It really resulted in a dramatic, I call it, I did a 720, you know, like they say, yeah, I did a 180 when I change, uh, direction. I did a 720. It was like this, you know, completely unpredictable from how I started and where I was, um, uh, change in career direction completely.
And then for the next. The now almost 20 years, I, uh, re, re remained myself in a different [00:06:00] way. Um, so, uh, gained multiple new expertise that, uh, is now very handy. So at the time when I started, it was still a woo woo kind of area, you know, it was not regarded like, uh, uh, a very, uh, so a lucrative way to eng engage, engage, uh, in terms of your career goals.
In fact, you know, I felt like I was put in the corner labeled like a strange person. And then, and then, uh, shortly after, I became very successful getting grants. And, uh, so they stopped questioning that direction. And, um, also my findings supported, um. Uh, you know, the whole person health effects of mind-body practice.
It’s not just your lungs or your heart, it’s all of you. It’s your brain, it’s your immune system, it’s your aging, uh, that are responsive to all of this mind-body practices and breath include all, most of this practices include breaths as like a key [00:07:00] element, like I studied Tai Chi or Qigong, or yoga, and all of this have commonalities, common practices.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: So give us a picture. You have a kind of a wide breadth of research, but the research shows that breath work affects not only stress and mood, but neuroplasticity and even gene expression. Can you explain as simply as possible, I know that this is neuropsychology, but can you explain how something as simple as breathing can have such deep biological effects?
Dr Lavretsky: Right. So this is the best tool a human has in our possession in order to regulate our response to the environment. You know, it’s harder for us to immediately regulate, uh, let’s say heart beating. But with our control of breathing muscles, we can control the rate of breath, the depths of breath, uh, the flow, put our attention [00:08:00] concentrate as a meditative focus on the breathing and that changes.
Um, uh, tone of the auto, uh, autonomic nervous system, parasympathetic versus sympathetic because all of us are running on empty batteries being stressed out all the time. And with the climate change and all the, um, mass disasters that are happening around the world, we’re constantly stressed. We don’t have time to kind of recoup
our system. And so at this point people are searching for tools, easy tools to use, uh, for a regulation of their emotions and stress. And, um, uh, boosting their resilience. So breath is like the easiest tool everybody has. It’s free. Doesn’t require prescription, not going to the doctors. Once you learn, um, um, pranayama or a way to breathe or pick three to five tools in your breathing or otherwise
Um, basket of tools, how to cope with [00:09:00] life. Uh, you, you all set was, uh, kind of de determining your own destiny. Instead of being reactive to whatever is going on, you could take a breath step, uh, back, uh, assess the situation and make a conscious decision instead of a knee-jerk reaction being reactive to whatever’s going on around you.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Absolutely, and this is something that I teach my clients as well. Can you explain how controlled timed breathing, which it really is, uh, activates the parasympathetic nervous system? What is the mechanism that turns the parasympathetic nervous system on and the sympathetic nervous system off?
Dr Lavretsky: Right. It’s the calming effect of slow conscious, uh, controlled paced breathing. And it’s been determined by numerous studies that breaths four to six breaths per minute, which is, gets you into this coherent state, uh, at which, uh, your blood [00:10:00] pressure drops, your heart rate drops. And, um, as a result, you feel calmer.
And, um, also you, uh, saw in my presentation at the AP that most recent research showed that all of the organal structures in the brain are engaged in this breathing. Once you, uh, start, tell your body, uh, slow down. Uh, breathe slowly and deeply. Close your eyes. Feel calm. The calm descends on the body and the brain and the mind.
And, um, it’s a big stop sign when parasympathetic vagus, um, system are activated. It’s a slow downtime. Everything slows down your heart rate, uh, your blood pressure drops. Uh, so people who are anxious and have this, um, increase in heart rate and blood pressure, the breath is their friend, you know, just to slow it down.
And even if you just close your eyes and follow your breath consciously, that automatically slows [00:11:00] down. Um, the rate of breathing and the normal rate is between 12 to 60. Eight to 16 breaths per minute. Um, anxious people have a higher bit, a higher rate of breathing. So if you slow it to four to six breaths per minute, it uh, really, you know, tells your body, calm down, slow down.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: So let me, if I, if I’m getting this right. The slow controlled breathing then sends a signal up into your brain. Your brain synchronizes with the breath, and then it sends a signal to the rest of the body to activate the nervous. This parasympathetic nervous system, is that through the vagus nerve? Is that how the communication happens?
Dr Lavretsky: Well, there are multiple systems involved in stress, uh, response. It’s immune system, it’s hormonal system. And so, yes, uh, central system serve regulating all of these processes, but they, uh, work [00:12:00] in unison. So once you start calming down. The cortisol levels drop, uh, adrenergic, uh, hormones that stimulate blood pressure, like increase hypertension, also drop bowel reflex.
So it’s multiple system, uh, response. It’s not just, um, brain or your lungs. It’s also heart, it’s immune system. And one of this deceleration in my research shows it immediately this, uh, pattern of behavior. Especially if sustained, if it becomes your default mode, um, tells the immune system to restructure and decrease inflammation.
And so that’s what we see in gene expression. So the change in gene expression or epigenetics is, uh, informed by your choices in life, your behavior, how you, uh, prefer to, uh, approach life by your consciousness. So the consciousness dictates changes in genetics, you know.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: That’s so [00:13:00] amazing. Can you go into that a little bit more and just for people who have never really heard of that epigenetics is, you know, a lot of people think that, uh oh, I was born with, you know, this set of genes and so I am destined to get. Cancer or whatever it’s, and what we’re seeing in science is that that’s not true.
You need a set of factors to turn that gene expression on. And a lot of those factors we’re determining are stress, maybe environmental toxins, diet especially is one of them. That’s my area that I always look into. Um, but also. What is our mental state? And if we’re constantly in stress, that creates inflammation and that inflammation might turn on, uh, the gene expression.
So breath work itself, if you can explain it just a little bit more simply for our audience. It [00:14:00] does what exactly for gene expression.
Dr Lavretsky: So, um, it, uh, I mean it’s the calm, the respond, the, the effect, the downstream effect of controlling your breaths, your are achieving calm, you are choosing to change your immediate respon reactivity to a calm, conscious response. It’s your consciousness that controls your breath because, um, most of our breathing is unconscious.
You know, we don’t notice it. We’re born with the first breath, uh, we’re alive and then we die. It’s the last breath that’s, you know, ends our, our body alive and um. So when we breathe, it’s mostly unconscious mechanisms that are, uh, dictated by the centers in the, uh, brainstem. And, uh, one of them is called uh, complex.
There are close, uh, centers in the brainstem. That vagal nerve [00:15:00] is close, has a nuclear next to breathing center, but then they go up in the brain. They are connecting to, um, locus sirilus that is controlling noradrenergic input or stress response and amygdala. That is a fear center and we’re all in fear. In fact, all of the media wants us to be in fear.
Um, it’s fear driven society. So amygdala is what’s lit up all of the time. The breathing pattern from the, uh, bottom up. Um, a go to amygdala, but also to the centers, uh, in the frontal lobe. That also talk to the lower structures. And, uh, that’s what this talk from, uh, top, uh, bottom up and top down are what’s coming.
The amygdala that is in fear and that amygdala prepares us to run from a bear, you know, or a lion. That is an evolutionary response when we account danger. But we have [00:16:00] lions and bears and, uh, earthquakes and tsunamis all every day. Basically some, something happens. What is being amplified is by media. And so, uh, social media, you know, television, uh, social media, is that, do you hear any good news?
Do you have news for good news? It’s all bad news. And, uh, so our amygdala is very, very tired and it influences reticular formation, uh, again, in the brainstem that, uh, because of it we don’t sleep well. You know, sleep is another factor, important lifestyle factor that comes down the system. So the one thing that I try to do, and of course there are breathing practices for sleep.
And, uh, the first, uh, thing I try to do with my patients, the first, uh, achievement is to regulate their sleep. And I work, work with long COVID now that, you know, really results with, um, the 98%, uh, percent of people not sleeping [00:17:00] due to increased inflammation and stress of dealing with, uh, long COVID. So the first thing that I, I spent 50% of my time trying to get them to sleep and teach them breathing techniques.
And, uh, whatever mind body practices that help, um, calm down the body, this reactivity to all the negative input from outside and create this internal inward, um, focus, which focusing on breathing would get you to, you know, you focus on yourself, on your body function, breathing, uh, it’s called interception.
Uh. Um, paying attention to all the stimuli that are happening in your body. So you tune out all, uh, that is outside, which is not pleasant most of the time, and you just pay attention. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breaths or your heart rate, uh, or what’s happening to your internal bodies, like you can talk to your liver or your bladder or your kidneys and [00:18:00] establish this mind-body connection.
Turning inward rather than paying attention to what’s outside.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Oh, I love this. More than anything, this is what I really try to incorporate with all of my clients, especially people who have a difficulty with eating, because oftentimes they’re just dissociated from their bodies. They’re completely maybe up in their heads, but they are not. Connected with the body, and I love that you talk about, you know, the mind body connection.
My question to you, is it even if you learn all of these breath work techniques, is it as effective? If you’re not working on what’s going on in your mind, do you need to coordinate the two? We live in this fear centered world. Does working on those thoughts while also working on the breath create more, uh, [00:19:00] effective change in the body?
Dr Lavretsky: Um, so if you’re talking about dealing with stress and trauma. Um, or any kind of psychiatric disorders, even depression or anxiety or insomnia or anything else. Breath could be a very potent ally. You know, like it’s a tool for you. It’s not a drug. You don’t need a prescription. Once you learn a few types of breath that do something for you, you could use it to regulate your body, uh, function so that you feel more empowered in controlling your life and your destiny.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Absolutely. So in combination it can be really helpful, but even on its own, even if you don’t work. On what’s happening in your mind? If you were to focus on the breath, you would still see a lot of positive effects, correct?
Dr Lavretsky: Well, you know, when you are calm, your mind is not as disordered. You know, like you don’t have [00:20:00] to be in panic. If you are, bring yourself not, and the breathing is what come, brings the calm.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Mm-hmm.
Dr Lavretsky: You know, um, our mind, you have to train your mind though, you know, so it doesn’t make sense not to pay attention or not to use breath to train your mind.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Mm-hmm.
Dr Lavretsky: And, uh, that’s a tool. And that’s why I’m saying, you know, it’s a tool. Uh, you don’t use it once or twice if you use it constantly. So all of the studies establish if you do it for a while, it does change patterns in your brain. You know, you’re not as reactive. Um, uh, like in the first study of caregivers, um, we only asked them to do 11, um, minute practice chanting meditation, uh, called Keratan crea, and we measured everything that happened to them.
Like in the brain we did FMRI, we did PET scan, we did gene expression. This was the first study that did, uh, measured telomerase in humans. And the second study measure measuring, uh, gene expression, all of [00:21:00] the systems really changed. And, uh, this was a big revelation because none of it was known before that study.
Uh, but also on. Uh, something that we didn’t measure. Caregivers gained this knowledge. I have 15 minutes to myself. I have this practice. I can do it for myself instead of taking care of everybody else. And then after the study was over, which was only eight weeks, they said, I have to continue this practice in order to benefit from it.
They learn the lesson. I have to take time to take care of myself, otherwise I’ll be sick and I’ll die before. Uh, my, my relatives was dementia, you know, and that it commonly happens, you know, so caregivers have 60% higher mortality than their peers who are not caregivers. Their, um, cardiovascular disease and, uh, cancer rates are much higher than peers who, who are not.
So this is, we see it very commonly that these people who are [00:22:00] very, very stressed die earlier. And stress does promote senescence or aging, and this practices reverse, uh, cellular aging, you know, and we’ve shown it with telomeres and others have shown it with telomere links. And, um, uh.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Into that just a little bit more. I think a lot of people are really interested in longevity and, and really I think, don’t understand telomerase itself. Give us a picture of that and why, why breath work actually, did it increase the telomerase length
Dr Lavretsky: Uh, no telomerase is a, uh, is an.
An enzyme that takes care of telomere links. Since then, uh, we’ve developed all sorts of other indices of aging, um, biological aging or cellular aging, like DNA clocks, aging clocks. And, uh, we do that now, you know, we, uh, gene expression also tells a very nice [00:23:00] story, uh, of, uh, restructuring of genes to promote.
Um. Uh, to decrease inflammation, but also promote antiviral effects protection, uh, against viruses and, um, uh, promote neuroplasticity. So there are certain genes that are responsible for this action in the body, and, um, they, they get activated. So they’re mo mostly protective, but also they, um, ensure your evolution, you know, like anti-aging, the reverse biological aging, and they can.
Promote health, uh, or brain health, overall health.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Oh my goodness. So to sum it up for people, and I did get it wrong, it’s telomere length, not telomerase. Telomerase is the enzyme that activates it. Uh, is. Telomere length determines essentially your aging. And as we age with more and more inflammation and stress, uh, you know, when we’re constantly in [00:24:00] stress, the length of telomeres get shorter and shorter.
But you can do a lot of things to actually reverse that or even increase your telomere length. And a lot of that is involving. You know, reducing your stress greatly, working on your, uh, physical and your mental health. And your physical health can be through exercise, but what we’re eating and what they show
also, that eating a whole food plant-based diet, um, helps to increase your telomere length and reverse your biological aging. So breathing alone. Breathing, you guys, just breathing free breathing can actually help you live longer and reduce your biological age. I wanna just really emphasize that because that’s simple and it’s free.
It doesn’t involve any medication. It something that you can practice regularly and it feels amazing. So, Dr. Lavretsky, we’re out of time [00:25:00] for this half of this podcast, but I wanna get into. Types of breathing exercises in the next half of this, um, episode. Would you be willing to model some breathing for us so that our listeners can take away some really powerful tools, uh, to help their health?
Dr Lavretsky: Yes, of course.
dr–supatra-tovar_1_07-23-2025_122900-1: Yay. Okay, everyone, thank you so much for joining us. You have to come back for the second half of this episode because we have a premier psychiatrist and neuroscientists helping us with natural free ways to increase our health and increase our longevity. Dr. Helen Lavretsky will be right back with you.
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