074: "Latest research on ways to treat trauma and PTSD with the use of DMT" with Dr. Parker Kelley

In recent years we have seen an increasing amount of research on studies using psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA to treat depression and PTSD; however, not much on the effects of DMT or Ayahuasca.

Psychedelics have shown promising efficacy in treating mental health disorders, with potential mechanisms including the promotion of neural plasticity, reducing inflammation, or even stimulating positive emotional processes. Exposure to a single dose of a psychedelic is enough to sustainably ablate the fear response in animal models of anxiety.

In today's episode my friend Dr. Parker Kelly and I talk about his latest research that investigated the potential of DMT (or ayahuasca) to treat PTSD.

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a compound capable of inducing potent psychedelic experiences that are typically much shorter than other “classical” psychedelics such as psilocybin or LSD. Despite its discovery in western medicine in the late 50’s by Dr. Stephen Szara, indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest have been using DMT ritualistically for hundreds of years in the form of a brewed tea, commonly known as ayahuasca.

Questions we discuss include, among others

- What are the causes for PTSD and how can we recognise them?

- Why trauma education is important to almost everyone.

- Is it possible to turn DMT into a medicine without the psychedelic side effects?

- What is happening biologically in a physical body, when someone is exposed to trauma?

- Expected changes on the therapeutic mental health landscape in the next years / decades.

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