Aaron Hartman, MD explains how screaming works as breathwork to regulate your nervous system. He also discusses psilocybin's resurgence in psychiatry, citing 1960s research and its effects on the brain's default mode network for processing trauma.
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Screaming is a form of breath work. Right. So there's all these things that we do that we don't even necessarily realize that are forms of breath work that our nervous system is utilizing as a way to regulate our body or change our physical and emotional state.
Yeah, actually right now kind of in my world, functional medicine world as well as the psychiatric world, psychedelics have become a really big kind of hot button topic. And they have a lot of data going back to the 60s and 70s with Timothy O' Leary up at Harvard, I believe is where he was at with a lot of the research he did with psilocybin. But and how they work through these default mode networks, how they actually in trauma almost, it's almost like, it's like the disassociation. Your body and mind separate, they come back together and you come back together at a different state which actually can break trauma, break people with significant mental health issues.