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Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Is Ketamine The Cure? with Dr. Sam Zand and Derek Du Chesne

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes into what is healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). What is MDMA? How was it used in the beginning? What are the studies showing with MDMA and PTSD? What is the safety of using MDMA for PTSD? Will it be available in the near future? Special guest segment: Founders of Better U, Dr. Sam Zand and Derek Du Chesne join the show to talk about the state of mental health. Is a mental health diagnosis helpful or detrimental? How are we overlooking what heals mental health?  Do psychedelics have a role in healing mental health?  How is ketamine used for mental health?  How has conventional medicine missed the boat on treating mental health disorders?  What is the future of mental healing? Dr. Sam Zand is a compassionate psychiatrist, motivational speaker, and socially conscious business developer. He has merged his passions for mental health, performance coaching, and entrepreneurship to establish platforms which build leaders and self-healers in the community. Whether treating addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health issues, Dr. Zand is able to build rapport by truly getting to know his clients and helping them increase their self-awareness. His passion is helping his clients overcome mental and emotional obstacles towards unlocking their peak potential. While his training is in general psychiatry, addiction recovery, and psychotherapy, his passions are in crisis intervention, peak mental fitness training, relationship counseling, psychedelic therapy, and spiritual growth. Dr. Zand works to help his clients cover all aspects of their mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Dr. Zand has worked with industry leaders, corporate executives, professional athletes, and the everyday hardworking citizen. He has established psychiatry clinics and mental health teams in over twelve states. Dr. Zand has worked with the San Francisco Giants to create a mental skills department. He spent time with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to assist in mental health and crisis intervention training. Dr. Zand also speaks for several pharmaceutical companies to help providers bridge the gap between neurochemistry and mental/emotional wellness. It is Dr. Zand’s mission to continue opening avenues towards strengthening mental health care, decreasing any perceived stigmas, improving spiritual alignment, and ultimately helping others become the best versions of themselves. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Instead of actually finding what's good about them and helping them thrive and looking at their

0:04.7

strengths and helping them grow, we're asking questions like, are you depressed? Do you have

0:09.6

negative thoughts? Do you feel guilty? And we're challenging people to express to us how terrible

0:14.8

their lives are? Alright everyone, welcome to heal myself. Thank you so much for taking the time

0:26.3

out of your day and joining another episode. I want to talk about really, really important stuff

0:32.4

right now. You heard over probably the last year and a half, I've been talking so much about mental

0:38.4

health because we know there's a huge upswell in mental health issues for people across the

0:45.5

board, especially right after COVID and we know this. A lot of depression, a lot of anxiety,

0:49.6

right? A lot of people who just don't feel good in their bodies and don't know what to do and don't

0:53.7

know where to go. And you know that's why I became so passionate about emotional release and

0:58.5

working with people and moving through emotions. But really for today, I want to give you some of

1:04.9

the real research on what is out there? What is out there for people who are really suffering

1:10.3

from anxiety, depression, PTSD? What are some of the things we need to know because

1:17.2

it would be who of us to understand what the future holds so we know where we're going

1:22.0

as far as treating mental health? So in the knowledge bomb, I'm going to talk a little bit about

1:26.8

MDMA and PTSD. You might have heard about MDMA, a commonly used street drug that people use in

1:34.0

partying and club going, but this is in the context of utilization clinically. And what they've

1:40.2

been finding with this stuff is incredible when it comes to mental health in a clinical context.

1:46.5

So I'm going to talk a little bit about MDMA and PTSD. And then we got the awesome founders,

1:52.0

a better you. This is an at home ketamine protocol company, Dr. Sam Zan and Director Chesney.

1:59.2

Both of the founders are going to talk about what led them to mental health, what they saw on mental

2:03.4

health, especially after COVID as I'm saying. But what led them to really create this company to

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