What if your phone is stressing your body more than you realize?
In this Digital Social Hour Episode, Sean Kelly sits down with Dr. Dave Rabin, founder of Apollo Neuro, at Dave Asprey’s conference to talk about stress, sleep, HRV, the nervous system, attention, trauma, psychedelics, and how technology can either hurt us or help us heal.
Dr. Dave explains why constant phone use overstimulates the nervous system, why recovery matters more than most people think, and how Apollo uses vibration and vagus nerve stimulation to help the body shift into a calmer state.
The conversation also covers supplement absorption, deep sleep, REM sleep, jet lag, HRV, Gen Z’s learning challenges, screen time in schools, attention as a trainable muscle, generational trauma, epigenetics, MDMA-assisted therapy, and the future of psychedelic research.
Dr. Dave also shares how trauma can be passed down through generations and why healing yourself may help stop that cycle for the next generation.
Chapters
0:00 Phones, stress, Gen Z, and generational trauma
0:30 Dr. Dave Rabin, Apollo, and his new book
1:20 Stress, supplements, and the Quicksilver collaboration
3:01 How your phone overstimulates your nervous system
4:48 Why recovery has to be scheduled
5:37 Why stress trackers can make people more stressed
7:16 Apollo, AI, Aura Ring data, and sleep research
11:20 Travel, jet lag, deep sleep, REM, and HRV
17:04 Fear states, vagus nerve activity, and recovery
23:31 Gen Z, screens, education, and attention decline
38:16 Generational trauma, psychedelics, and healing the nervous system
What You’ll Learn
🧠 Why your phone may be overstimulating your nervous system
📱 How screen time affects stress, focus, and learning
😴 Why deep sleep and REM matter more than just “8 hours”
💓 Why HRV is such an important marker for recovery
⚡ How Apollo uses vibration to support vagus nerve activity
🎓 Why Dr. Dave believes Gen Z is showing signs of cognitive regression
🧬 How trauma may pass through generations through epigenetics
🍄 Why psychedelic-assisted therapy could change mental health treatment
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