From Heroin Addiction to Healing Minds at Scale

Ketamine therapies, not something you hear a lot.

Yeah, no, so, like, a lot of people don't realize, but ketamine is actually an FDA-approved anesthetic.

Right.

And so it was FDA approved in 1970.

It's one of the safest, least toxic anesthetics on the market.

It's actually the number one choice for pediatric sedation, so they use it on children one-and-a-half and older for surgeries.

That being said, we use it off-label for mental health.

We use it for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse issues, and instead of, like a lot of the antidepressants and other pharmaceutical medications out there, which is more of, like, covering a symptom up or throwing a Band-Aid on a bullet wound-

Yep

... ketamine actually gets to the root issue and the root cause of why people are suffering to begin with.

So when someone is on ketamine, what is physically happening to the body? Like, are, are, are, are networks being rewired? What is literally happening to the body?

So ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, and when people get into a disassociated state, it's like a chemically induced meditative state.

Mm-hmm.

The mind separates from the body, and it removes the active blocks that are holding past repressed traumatic experiences, or sometimes even things in our personal unconscious that we don't even know we need to deal with.

It also does do neurological healing to the brain, though.

So whenever we've had these traumatic experiences, neurological damage happens, and ketamine goes in and physiologically remaps and restructures the neural pathways in the brain-

Oh, yeah

... actually touches and hits the receptors in the brain that create our dopamine, so the brain starts producing more dopamine naturally.

But when we send people into this dreamlike state or these profound psychedelic healing experiences-

Oh, yeah.

Mm-hmm

... people are achieving about 20 years' worth of therapy in six treatments.