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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I speak with

Dr. Ken Adolph about ketamine, which is a legal psychedelic and poses a potential breakthrough

for brain health and emotions. We discuss what is ketamine

and how does it work? What does some of the research show in models of depression, PTSD,

addiction, prior trauma? What's happening in the brain when one uses ketamine impacts on the default

mode network, this association, which can be helpful when people kind of get locked into a certain

way of thinking. And we use an example that's probably fairly easy to identify with, especially if you're living in a

Western society, which most people listening to this are, which is being worried about

work and life stress and having a tendency to kind of ruminate and thought loop over and over and

again on these things, how that can pull you away from the things that are presumably more important in life,

family, friends, time in nature, and how, correspondingly, when people go through

therapeutic sessions with ketamine, they tend to find themselves all of a sudden spending more time

in nature with friends and with family, even though their work or life situations haven't changed,

which I think is a really important thing to keep in mind is that even though it may seem like,

and I include myself in this, you've got to work X number of hours per day or do Y amount of stuff, there are opportunities to shift your perspective.

And those expectations that you have of yourself are not actually set in stone.

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