Did you know that a once popular club drug is now a groundbreaking treatment for depression and other mental health issues?

Ketamine is a dissociative by its label, right, an anesthetic dissociative.

It seems to be, I like to also call it like meditation, medicine on steroids

because it allows an amplification of senses that I think

hardcore meditators are able to accomplish really easily.

Stay tuned because in this episode we're going to dive into the complexities of ketamine therapy.

Ketamine is a really interesting landscape because it's like you can be talking about

four different medicines depending on what's the root of administration.

People will have fundamentally different experiences with it in an infusion setting

than they might in a therapy setting because they're just being taught to work differently

with what's happening. I'm excited to introduce Dr. Chantal Thomas, a leading expert in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

Ketamine isn't just effective for reducing suicidal thoughts. It's a game-changer when it comes to mental health treatment.

But here's the catch.

Many treatment programs miss a crucial element,

the integration of therapy, the actual helping part.

Dr Thomas will guide you on how to combine ketamine treatment

with essential

therapeutic support.

And so it is a very, again, it's an entry point

from a place of being really gentle and calming

as opposed to some of the psychedelic medicines

have a really intense ramp that leads people into experience and that can be a big ask for systems that nervous systems that are just like living in fight flight or freeze.

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