Dr. Anthony Gustin welcomes back Dr. Molly Maloof, an entrepreneur, Stanford professor, and biohacker for an information-packed episode.

You’ll hear how the pandemic taught Dr. Molly that social bonds and community are just as vital to our health as good nutrition, sleep, and exercise. She also discusses the quantified self, how to heal past trauma to prevent and reverse metabolic disease, and touches on her research with psychedelic therapies.

Dr. Molly then ventures into her new fascination with emerging sex therapy protocols, an overlooked area that hasn’t been innovated in 50 years. She highlights the recent epidemic of sexual trauma and sexual dysfunction plaguing society, and how we can learn to heal through meditation and the reprogramming of our thoughts and memories (in what she calls the “next wave of psychiatry”).

As a practicing physician and healthcare reform lobbyist, Dr. Molly also touches on how to create a community of people who advocate for their wellbeing in a broken healthcare system designed to keep us sick for profit.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

How Dr. Molly assesses her patient’s social and support networks along with their general health
The benefits of creating stronger social ties and being more engaged in your community
Why the next frontier of optimizing health is tackling stress and improving mental, emotional, and spiritual health
How stress manifests itself in our physiology and sexual dysfunction, especially for women, and the sexual trauma epidemic plaguing the nation
Studying implicit vs. explicit memories and how we can change our brain’s “programming” to lessen the reactivity and negativity triggered by past trauma, PTSD, childhood experiences, etc.
Meeting our pain with compassion
Connecting to a higher power via meditation and spiritual coaching in the absence of formal religion
Psychedelic therapies and regenerative medicine like NAD
Why EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) might help people who haven’t had luck with talk therapy

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Molly Maloof’s website where you can find her online course based on the one she teaches at Stanford and preorder her new book, The Spark Factor
Dr. Maloof’s Instagram: @drmolly.co
Natural Action Water Revitalization
Polar H10
Hanu
Oura Ring
EMDR
Mindlight
Myneurva remote neurofeedback therapy
Sue Carter, who’s studied the endocrinology of love and social bonds for over 30 years
Helen Fisher, the most cited woman on love

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