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The Tim Ferriss Show

#511: Hamilton Morris on Iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, The Power of Ritual, New Frontiers in Psychedelics, Excellent Problems to Solve, and More

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Hamilton Morris on Iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, The Power of Ritual, New Frontiers in Psychedelics, Excellent Problems to Solve, and More | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines natural wines designed for fewer hangoversLMNT electrolyte supplementand Oura smart ring wearable for personalized sleep and health insights. More on all three below.

Hamilton Morris (@HamiltonMorris) is a chemist, filmmaker, and science journalist. A graduate of The New School, he conducts chemistry research at The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Hamilton is the writer and director of the documentary series Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, in which he explores the chemistry and traditions surrounding psychoactive drugs. His research has allowed him to study psychoactive plants, fungi, and chemicals, as well as the culture that surrounds them, in more than 30 countries, using an interdisciplinary approach that combines anthropology and chemistry.

Hamilton’s recent republishing of a book on Bufo alvarius has, at the time of writing, raised more than $205,000 for Parkinson’s disease research.

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This episode is brought to you by Aura, O-U-R-A. It is the only wearable that I wear on a daily basis.

0:06.7

Aura is the company behind the smart ring that delivers personalized sleep and health insights

0:11.7

to help you optimize just about everything. And I've tried every device out there that you can

0:17.2

imagine. This one really makes the cut. I've been using it religiously for at least six months now,

0:23.5

and I was introduced to it by Dr. Peter Atia, who's also vetted just about everything.

0:28.7

With advanced sensors or a pack state-of-the-art heart rate heart rate variability, HRV,

0:33.5

super important to me, temperature activity and sleep monitoring technology into a convenient

0:38.5

non-invasive ring. It's tiny. It weighs less than six grams and focuses on three key insights.

0:44.3

Sleep, readiness, and activity. So I can use it to help focus my attention on the type,

0:50.9

volume intensity of exercise that I should do in a given day. I use it to determine how certain

0:56.7

types of alcohol at different times of the day affect my sleep, which they do. And I can see all

1:01.2

of that in graph form trended over time. There are tons of actionable insights that have come from

1:06.8

using this ring for me. They have a number of incredible people on their team, Dr. Matthew Walker,

1:13.1

a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, and also author of Why We Sleep.

1:18.8

The mega hit is Aura's chief science advisor as just one example. The Aura ring is one of the most

1:25.3

accurate wearables available because it measures your vitals directly from your finger. So it's not

1:31.2

deducing that or making a best guestimate based on a bunch of other things and trying to

1:36.9

try and do it. Compared to a medical grade electrocardiogram, the Aura ring is 99.9% accurate for

1:43.3

resting heart rate and 98.4% accurate for heart rate variability. And I work with HRV doctors and

1:49.5

they recommend that I use the Aura ring. So try it yourself. It is super cool and super practical,

1:56.3

very actionable. The Aura ring comes in two styles and three colors, silver, black, and matte,

2:02.4

black. I use matte black for $299. You can give or get the gift of health by visiting Aura ring.com.

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