Are Psychedelics the New Wonder Drug for Mental Illness and the Fear of Death? with Dr. Anthony Bossis

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to medicine, many of us want immediate results. What if just one dose of medicine could dramatically shift your perception, decreasing anxiety, depression, fear of death, addictive tendencies, and so much more? It might sound too good to be true, but the therapeutic use of psychedelics is showing us it’s possible. Now, I’m not talking about taking magic mushrooms at a Grateful Dead concert. The medicine used in psychedelic trials is created in a lab, carefully dosed for the patient, and administered in a specific setting with a trained guide who is present throughout the entire process. This highly controlled process can yield some pretty amazing results and we will be seeing much more science emerge on the safe use of psychedelics for a variety of disorders. This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. Anthony Bossis joins me to elaborate on using psychedelics to expand our sensory abilities and relax our experience with death and illness. Anthony P. Bossis, Ph.D. conducts FDA-approved clinical trials in the reemerging field of psychedelic research. He is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine investigating the effects of psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in specific species of mushrooms.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy.
0:05.6	That's F-A-R-M-A-C-Y.
0:06.6	A place for conversations that matter.
0:08.7	I'm Dr. Mark Heimann.
0:10.4	And this conversation, I think you'll find really matters with Dr. Anthony Bosses, who's
0:14.2	an NYU professor of psychiatry, and has done some extraordinary research on the mind
0:21.3	through the lens of how psychedelics can help us die, can help us deal with disturbing
0:26.0	emotions.
0:27.7	And this conversation wouldn't even have been had 10 or 15 years ago, scientists studying
0:35.4	psychedelics, but now it's sort of had this resurgence.
0:39.0	And it's fascinating to look at the work you've done because you have been researching
0:44.4	to start with how we can help people with the anxiety of death and the fear of death
0:49.4	and the transition in palliative care.
0:51.5	And you've done some remarkable studies on this.
0:53.9	Here, the co-principle investigator and co-author of this amazing study, which we'll talk
0:58.6	about.
0:59.6	And you showed significant emotional distress along with sort of a enhanced existential
1:06.4	well-being in these patients who were dying of cancer, just with a single psilocybin, which
1:11.0	is magic mushroom for those who don't know what that is.
1:13.4	psilocybin generated mystical experience with cancer.
1:15.7	Now first of all, science and mysticism seem like they never should come together.
1:21.0	But you are bringing together this fascinating way, which is disruptive in the scientific
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