Crazy Wisdom
Depression is a disconnection from your body - Dr. Emily Splichal
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- Breath, Body & Stress
- fitness
- muscle
- stress
- relaxation
- tissue
- psychedelics
- breathwork
- chronicpain
About this episode
Emily Splichal is a podiatrist and the founder of Evidence Based Fitness Academy (EBFA). In this episode, we discuss somatosensation, how awareness of interoception can help manage stress, stem cells, sound and vibration healing, breathwork, chronic pain, functional fitness, and much more. Emily is working on a book titled “Own it: Offensive Techniques to Owning your Health.” You can find her at her various websites namely, dremilysplichal.com, ebfaglobal.com, and neboso.com, or on Instagram @dremilydpm. Enjoy.
(Note: This podcast deals heavily with anatomy and uses a lot of medical terms; you may want to skip if that doesn't pique your curiosity.)
(2:34) Why don’t other animals have ruffini receptors/ruffinian endings found in humans?
(5:53 – 7:18) The relationship between breathing and stress, and somatic responses and stress; an interesting definition of stress in terms of energy.
7:50 – 12:49) Sound healing: how sound and vibration can be used to influence muscular activation and relaxation (it may be possible to sing your way into a high); a possible theory of how breathwork helps manage stress
(12:56 – 18:59) Our perception of the inside affects how we view the outside, even before we’re born; how we learn about the world from our mothers while in the womb; the importance of being able to regulate emotions and maintaining a relaxed state of mind during pregnancy, and while raising children.
(18:58 – 25:53) Most of our agitation and chronic pain issues result from unconscious cognitive and emotional processes, preventing us from being able to effectively deal with them consciously; how psychedelics and alternative therapy methods can give us access to these aspects of ourselves and help us work through them.
(27:34 – 29:43) Stem cells: do they work? Emily shares how she uses them in her treatments and the wrong ways doctors apply them in treating patients.
(29:45 – 31:33) Growth factors, what are they? What do they do? Are they different from hormones?
(31:39 – 33:56) Functional fitness vs artificial fitness; hammers and axes vs dumbbells and barbells.
(33:57 – 35:07) The relationship between the feet and the brain; why the feet are so neurally important; what running barefoot, in nature, can do for memory.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom. Which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both experiences, acceleration as technology accelerates and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with the show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself, because we don't can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter Ultra Stuart Allsop. I, I, I, my DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how this show has affected you.
My guest today is Dr. Emily Splickel. She is the founder of ebay EBVA Evidence Based Fitness Academy. So welcome to the show, Emily.
And so the main reason I've invited you onto the show is because I just been so. I've just gotten so much information and wisdom and knowledge from your, your content that you put on on your YouTube channel about foot to core sequencing and about pacinian receptors in our feet and how those pacinian receptors adapt to or are connected to the deeper muscles of our hips. And so once I started realizing the like the deep, intimate connection between the sensory receptors on the bottom of our feet and the hips, I started doing a lot more barefoot stuff and it just kind of changed my whole relationship to nature. So now when I go out in nature, I walk around barefoot a lot and it's like improved my hip mobility like crazy. And so I just wanted to go deeper into that with you and kind of ask you all these types of questions. So welcome.
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