Hello everybody, welcome back to Psychedelics Today. This is your host, Kyle Buller, joined with Michelle Janikian and our guest, Benjamin Mudge. You may remember Benjamin from one of our previous episodes.

So I really encourage everybody to go back, check out Solidarity Friday, episode 59. That is the

part one of this conversation where Benjamin gets more into his story and his work. And this is

kind of like the part two. we invited Benjamin back to really dig

into some of these topics a little bit more in depth. Again, that is Solidarity Friday

episode 59. I'll read a little bit here from that episode from Benjamin's bio. So Benjamin Mudge

has a background in music, art, and political activism, and is now a

PhD candidate in the psychiatry department at Flinders University, as well as the director of bipolar

disorder research and education, CIC. He taught himself the science of bipolar disorder while working

at neuroscience laboratories in Glasgow Smith-Kline

to be able to manage his own personal experience of manic depression. After psychiatrists

prescribed him 17 different pharmaceuticals, all which were problematic, he gave up on

pharmaceutical psychiatry and decided to find his own solution to living with manic depression.

He's been managing his bipolar disorder with ayahuasca for 12 years without any need of pharmaceuticals and was awarded a PhD scholarship to research whether his personal protocol could assist other bipolar people.

His future vision is to make ayahuasca ceremonies available to bipolar people as an alternative treatment to pharmaceutical drugs.

Yeah, I know this is kind of a tab, not a taboo, controversial subject of bipolar and ayahuasca.

We have a blog as well. If you go to our website with the blog,

you can find that article as well. Yeah, Michelle wrote that one. And Benjamin was featured in it.

You know, we got a lot of great responses from Benjamin's first episode and the blog. But, you know,

I also just want to make a little disclaimer or, yeah, a little disclaimer here after reading Benjamin's bio that, you know, I also just want to make a little disclaimer or, yeah, a little disclaimer here

after reading Benjamin's bio that, you know, if you are struggling with bipolar or any other

sort of mental health disorder, it's okay to get treatment. Medication's okay if it helps you.

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