Dr. Dave Rabin

Our treatments stabilize people.

And they stabilize people for life, but people are still sick.

And so, in part, that's why we've seen, when you look at the statistics for mental illness around the world, but especially in the U.S.

and the Western world, mental illness rates have skyrocketed over the last 10 years

Addiction rates have skyrocketed over the last 10 years, and they're not getting better.

They're getting much worse every year, which makes me think and many of my colleagues think, well, maybe we need to be asking different questions about how we're approaching this, right?

Maybe there are other ways to approach mental illness, not from let's just stabilize somebody, but let's get to the root cause.

So when I started to dive into the root cause, I realized that whether you look at Western medicine and what we were seeing in the clinic in our patients, or when I started to look at where Western medicine had gaps, like in the Eastern and tribal medicine approaches around breathwork, meditation, yoga, mindfulness...

plant medicine and psychedelic medicine, I realized that these are all different disciplines that are approaching life from different angles, but through the different lenses, right?

But we're looking at the same thing.

When you, well, taking a step back, when you look at trying to solve these really complex problems of mental illness that are epidemic worldwide now, and you look at

trying to solve those problems from just a western lens or just an eastern or tribal lens it seems really complicated people are confused people don't get better but when you actually look at the field taking like a 30 000 foot view and trying to figure out well what do these different disciplines have in common right what is western medicine in common with eastern and tribal medicine and how are they all how can they all come together

you start to actually be able to put the puzzle pieces together into the solution and solve the puzzle because you have all the pieces.

So I started to look outside the box and study other traditions in the way they, that were much older than Western medicine.

And long story short, I just realized that when you look at the whole view of life and mental illness and ease and disease and

and you look at it from the three perspectives together, Eastern, Western, and tribal medicine, with all the pieces, the solutions are actually a lot more simple than we thought.

And so seeing that we weren't getting taught this in medical school, and none of my medical colleagues and practitioners that I worked with were getting taught this stuff, I just realized, you know, I need to write this book.

Like, I need to put all these pieces together for people and

So that we can have a simple guide that actually pulls from all these different disciplines and gives people all the pieces they need to solve this puzzle on their own, helping kind of reframe this as actually as simple as it really is, which is really getting back to childhood wonder and joy.

innocence play uh imagination intuition like spirituality all the good stuff that has been talked about for thousands of years by eastern tribal cultures we're now finally proving in western medicine and western science are real and not only are they real they change our biology they extend our longevity they increase our heart rate variability right they do all the things that