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Ayahuasca & Medicinal Psychedelics with Physician & Comedian Dr. Priyanka Wali – Ask Dr. Drew – Episode 114

Ask Dr. Drew

Dr. Drew

News, Politics, Health & Fitness, News Commentary

4.3851 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Priyanka Wali – AKA "America's only Indian female stand-up comedian and physician" – joins Ask Dr. Drew to answer your calls LIVE. Dr. Priyanka Wali is a physician, stand-up comedian, and co-host of the podcast HypochondriActor. Her philosophical approach to medicine stems from holistic concepts, primarily that "Food is Medicine" and that many medical illnesses arise from the disconnection of natural-occurring phenomena. She maintains a research faculty position at UCSF's Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program. Follow her at https://twitter.com/WaliPriyanka and https://instagram.com/WaliPriyanka. Subscribe to her weekly show "HypochondriActor" anywhere you listen to podcasts. Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (http://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. SPONSORED BY • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Genucel uses clinical levels of botanical extracts in their cruelty-free, natural, made-in-the-USA line of products. Get 10% off with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew GEAR PROVIDED BY • BLUE MICS - After more than 30 years in broadcasting, Dr. Drew's iconic voice has reached pristine clarity through Blue Microphones. But you don't need a fancy studio to sound great with Blue's lineup: ranging from high-quality USB mics like the Yeti, to studio-grade XLR mics like Dr. Drew's Blueberry. Find your best sound at https://drdrew.com/blue • ELGATO - Every week, Dr. Drew broadcasts live shows from his home studio under soft, clean lighting from Elgato's Key Lights. From the control room, the producers manage Dr. Drew's streams with a Stream Deck XL, and ingest HD video with a Camlink 4K. Add a professional touch to your streams or Zoom calls with Elgato. See how Elgato's lights transformed Dr. Drew's set: https://drdrew.com/sponsors/elgato/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome everybody. Very delighted today to welcome a peer, Priyanka Wally, who is an internist

0:07.0

like myself, but she's also doing all sorts of interesting things, including psychedelic research,

0:11.3

and she's a comedian in her spare time. We're going to hear all about her career.

0:16.0

Excuse me, I am very interested in physicians that are doing other things than just practicing medicine.

0:23.0

I've always said we should be sort of in, we should be in the creative spaces all over the

0:28.7

place to sort of put our knowledge base and, you know, sort of stamp on the material that's

0:33.9

out there because there's so much false material that's out in the world these days.

0:36.5

So, so we will get right to it with Dr. William in just second.

0:39.3

We will be taking your calls as well off Twitter spaces.

0:41.3

Of course, we're streaming on all the usual places.

0:43.3

So let's get right to it.

0:45.3

Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre.

0:50.3

The psychopaths start this fact.

0:52.3

He was an alcoholic because of social media and

0:54.7

pornography, PTSD, love addiction. Fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous. I'm a doctor for

1:00.4

I say, where the hell you think I learned that? I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you

1:05.0

kill people. I am a clinician. I observe things about these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real.

1:09.4

We used to get these calls on Loveland all the time.

1:11.9

Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat.

1:14.5

Do you have trouble?

1:15.0

You can't stop and you want to help stop it.

1:16.7

I can help.

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