The Healing Power of Psychedelics

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, 810564, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we dive into the world of psychedelics, learning all about their adoption into Western medicine with Dr. Maya Shetreat. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. The potential benefits of psychedelics in addressing trauma and chronic illness 2. The use of psychedelics in treating addiction and mental health conditions 3. Indigenous wisdom and psychedelics 4. The different types of psychedelic experiences Dr. Maya is a neurologist with sixteen years of experience working with children and adults. She is also an herbalist, artist, ceremonialist, urban farmer, and forager. Dr. Maya authored two books, The Master Plant Experience and The Dirt Cure, which have been translated into ten languages. She created Quantum Drops, also known as Ceremony in a Bottle, a legal, safe, and transformative vibrational psychedelic Master Plant product. Additionally, Dr. Maya founded Terrain Institute, offering free ceremonies, microdosing coaching, and Portal, a training program for aspiring psychedelic-informed professionals. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

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0:00.0	Today on the root cause medicine podcast.
0:03.3	What psychedelics do is they reopen those critical periods of plasticity.
0:08.7	We talked about what happens, why the ages of zero to seven and even beyond, we have these
0:14.1	window periods of plasticity in which things embed in a totally different way than they do
0:20.1	most of the rest of our lives. Yes, there are
0:23.1	ways that we can have imprinting experiences after that time, but it's less common. Psychedelics
0:30.4	reopen those critical periods of plasticity, and that gives us an opportunity, but it's not a guaranteed healing.
0:39.7	Hello, hello.
0:40.8	I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am really excited to bring on my friend, Dr. Maya Shetreat.
0:47.1	She is both an adult and a pediatric neurologist, an herbalist, an author, and formulator of quantum drops.
0:55.0	We went into the science of psychedelics.
0:58.0	A lot of people have questions around psychedelics.
1:01.0	They have a pretty negative view around psychedelics,
1:03.0	understandably given the history,
1:05.0	but we really talked about the research,
1:07.0	the effect on neurotransmitters,
1:10.0	what they're doing now in different universities,
1:12.6	including the VA Medical Hospital, and more.
1:15.9	So if you've been curious around psychedelics, how to start with psychedelics, or even how to
1:20.4	start with something lighter and softer as it maybe relates to things that you're going
1:25.2	through, then you're going to want wanna listen up as Dr. Maya,
1:28.3	a neurologist herself, walks us through the basics
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