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SENSORY DEPRIVATION IN A FLOTATION TANK | WHAT IS FLOAT THERAPY? | Doctor Mike - YouTube
Channel: Doctor Mike
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yes floatation therapy really just gives
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your body in your brain a chance to
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decompress the hardest thing to do in
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there is to be comfortable being alone
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with being by yourself and once you can
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do that you can do anything have you
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ever heard of a sensory deprivation or
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floatation tank I've heard that they
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come with a myriad of health benefits so
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I went to check them out for myself the
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water itself is only 10 inches deep but
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it is slippery there just be very
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careful when you step inside don't be
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afraid to use the handles if you need
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them push the button if you need me all
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right so I just got my instructions on
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what I'm gonna do this flotation pod
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really exciting this is my first time
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and I am sore from the gym I am a little
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stressed out because I have five million
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things going on I'm gonna shower right
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now and we're gonna get started
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and so begins my floatation experiments
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we're supposed to I have my panic button
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in case some people come in here trying
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to rob me I got my leg button and I got
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my music button can't play the music
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because of copyright YouTube sorry and I
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have my emergency eyewash solution in
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case I get assaulted my
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we'll never have the same you know
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benefit from it it's always different
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everybody's is unique whether for some
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people it's emotional for some people
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it's mental for some people it's
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physical
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I definitely saw some others then I
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started were saying that I did see stars
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and I was like flying to the Stars other
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prettier is he
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you do feel emotion initially just kind
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of crazy cuz you're not moving I
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understand why a strong obsession see
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his senses even fully fully relax
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sometimes I caught myself being tense is
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yeah I'm a new person
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leave it in our briefs you know like I'm
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less tit and I caught myself tensing up
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in the middle of it yeah I thought about
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something too exciting yeah there's a
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learning curve there yeah thanks a lot
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three sessions so you really get skilled
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at being a good floater and then you can
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go deeper and deeper and relax more and
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more yeah so there's a lot of health
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claims being made surrounding these
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flotation tanks but let me first tell
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you what I got out of it I definitely
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felt more relaxed my muscles that were
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tense after my workouts I played soccer
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I did leg day definitely felt a little
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bit more relaxed and at ease
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I had a boost of creativity I think I'm
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pretty much the epitome of a stressed
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New Yorker I have like four different
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jobs taking care of a new puppy
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so I'm very wound up if you will and
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going into this tank it allowed me to
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sort of block out all that external
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negative stimuli and really focus on
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what was important to me so I thought
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about bear I thought about my dad I also
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thought about this YouTube channel and
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what ideas I have for the future and
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that brainstorming session was
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incredibly productive as a good doctor
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I've said this before you have to be a
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good skeptic but it's important to not
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disbelieve everything you hear because
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sometimes there's truth and a lot of
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what we call alternative medicine there
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have been some meta-analysis done on
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this and meta-analysis again just to
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remind you is a combination it's a
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grouping of studies to reduce the
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likelihood of bias and improve the
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results that meta-analysis that specific
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one that I looked at really showed that
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the studies that were done
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were really poor quality they were small
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they aren't reproducible so the evidence
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behind all of these theories is very
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weak now that being said does it mean
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that going to floatation therapy won't
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help you relax won't decrease some of
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your anxiety and depression it likely
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will is it a life-changing breakthrough
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treatment that's gonna solve all your
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problems no is it gonna reset your
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circadian rhythm and allow you to sleep
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better probably not here's what I'm not
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a fan of I'm not a fan of over-promising
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patients results so we can talk about
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the benefits of meditation we can talk
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about the benefits of taking it an hour
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away from your phone from your busy life
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and laying in a quiet room floating
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enjoying those health benefits but to
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say that you're gonna reset your
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circadian rhythm improve your immune
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system those are lofty promises and it's
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not good to set lofty expectations for
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your patients put your body into a
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meditative relaxing state that you
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cannot achieve practicing meditation for
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20 years
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all the benefits you get from that or
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well researched and well proven and the
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best way to do it is doing it in a float
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session things that you should keep in
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mind always check out who the main
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person is that's running the center find
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out what their credentials are make sure
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that if you see the word doctor that
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you're finding out what kind of doctor
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they are are they chiropractors are they
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PhDs are they MDS or dio's also a lot of
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these flotation centers and chill space
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is not excluded from this they make
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lofty promises with some of their
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treatments and it's important to not
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fall in and believe all these promises
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you'll also see on some of the walls a
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ton of supplements that carry their own
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promises and you know my feelings on
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supplements if it's not proven it's
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garbage in my mind it's not because I'm
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a doctor and I want to be a slave to the
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pharmaceutical industry no it's because
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before I give you something before I
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make an impact on your life I want to
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make sure it's safe and it works because
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my job is to first do no harm and the
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only way I can do that is if the
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treatment is proven I have to give a
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huge shout out to chill space NYC for
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letting us use their floatation tank for
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allowing us to film they're being very
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kind with their interviews the founder
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even came out and gave us a blurb about
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what floatation therapy is all about so
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thank you for that as always guys stay
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happy and healthy
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