What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we're on a mission to unlock human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop. All right, this week's episode,

Woop VP of Performance Science or Principal Scientist.

Kristen Holmes is joined by Dr. Robin Carhart Harris,

a distinguished professor of neurology and psychiatry

at the University of California, San Francisco.

He is one of the leading researchers in the study of how psychedelics,

such as psilocybin, LSD, and DMT, can change the human

brain, and in doing so, be used to successfully treat various mental health challenges,

such as major depression, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, and addiction.

Kristen and Robin will discuss the etymology of psychedelics,

his research on altered states and altered consciousness, it's all about self-discovery and the

potential to cure mental health, recreational use of psychedelics, which should be done in a controlled

environment with supervision. The potential of psychedelics, which should be done in a controlled environment with supervision,

the potential of psychedelics as a medicinal treatment, mental health, anxiety, addiction, and eating

disorders, what it means to biologically let go, and the performance-enhancing capabilities of

psychedelics. Reminder, if you have a question you want to see answered on the podcast, email us

podcast at whoop.com. Call us 508-443-4952, and we'll answer your questions on a future

episode. Without further ado, here are Kristen Holmes and Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris.

First of all, Robin, I want to thank you for all the work that you have done and are doing in the space of psychedelic

consciousness research. This topic is likely pretty vague to a lot of our listeners. They might,

you know, they might kind of heard about it. But I think it would

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