Episode #136 Featuring Dr. Dave Rabin Part 2! Everyone's FAVORITE NEUROSCIENTIST! "A Simple Guide to Being Alive"

**Dylan Gemelli** (0:17)
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All right, everybody. Welcome back to The Dylan Gemelli Podcast. Most excited I've been on a show to date. And I'll tell you why. If you follow me, didn't you know, I talk about my guest device, the Apollo Neuro, all the time, but it's more so about him himself, everything about him, everything since I met him, everything that we've talked about together that you've taught me personally, the time we've got to spend together, not enough for me, but a good amount.

**Dr. Dave Rabin** (1:43)
More to come.

**Dylan Gemelli** (1:43)
Yes, 100%, that's a damn right. It's everybody's favorite neuroscientist.
He's the co-founder of the Apollo Neuro, which is what you're well known for, but what I'm most excited to talk about you today is the new book that is going to be coming out soon. We're going to give you some insight on that and the topics that are covered. There's some stuff in there that just excites me to no end, and it's called A Simple Guide to Being Alive, but I mean, it goes without saying. The impact that you have, the things that you do, and the heart that you carry is why I love you and think of you as family, and it's just so good to be back with you. And this is part two with my guest, Dr. Dave Rabin.

**Dr. Dave Rabin** (2:27)
Thanks so much for having me, Dylan. It's a pleasure to be here with you, as always.

**Dylan Gemelli** (2:31)
What does it mean to you when you put this together, A Simple Guide to Being Alive? Because to me, it sounds like a handbook of life.

**Dr. Dave Rabin** (2:38)
I think that as a doctor, we often get patients coming to us all the time, confused about how to live a good life, how to live a long life, how to just struggling to figure out how to enjoy life and make enough money and do all the things that we feel like we're supposed to be doing. And when I went to medical school and I spent more time in school than most humans, I've been in school for like 12 years post-college, in training. So it's a lot of time.
And I realized myself, coming through the end of my training, that there were still a lot of gaps. And I learned how to treat people with severe mental illness. I learned so much about how to help people heal and recover. But I also realized that for a lot of people, many of the techniques we were taught to use still weren't working. Like they weren't making a dent, and people were still symptomatic for life, having a lot of side effects for medications. And we were taught, and I think one thing that was really astounding to me is that we were taught not to use the C word for mental illness, right? The word cure. Like all other practices in medicine are able to use the word cure for different things. We're not taught to use that word, really, because our treatments don't cure people. 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 US 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 thankful, 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.