4: Optimizing Your Life With Plant Medicine and Psychedelics with Ian Benouis
Episode 4 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Life With Plant Medicine and Psychedelics with Ian Benouis
4:26 How optimizing is a lifetime journey
5:44 - Taking care of yourself is the best low side to having a positive impact on the world
5:50 - If you know anyone who has served in the military
9:24 - Getting through something and not around something is the power of this medicine
11:18 This medicine is in phase 3 trails at the FDA
11:37 The systematic medicating of our kids
13:56 - The western medicine masking to the plant medicine healing journey of our military
17:23 Ibogaine for addiction - the receptor reset
18:11 Customized healing with bufo (frog medicine), ayahuasca, mushrooms (psilocybin), san pedro (peyote)
19:09 The fine line between self medicating and healing
22:09 You are what you eat and the significance of your 2nd brain (your gut)
23:28 What a guide looks like in this process
26:40 The chemical make up of plant medicine (get into the scientific weeds)
About our guest:
Ian Benouis, JD, is the General Counsel of Veterans for Natural Rights (VNR), a 501c3 dedicated to veteran healing and reintegration. He is a West Point graduate, former Blackhawk helicopter pilot, former US Army officer and combat veteran who participated in Operation Just Cause in the Republic of Panama the biggest operation in history directed towards the War on Drugs. He has been healing himself for over 25 years with natural earth medicines, a spiritual practice, and as a student and practitioner of ethnobotany. He has organized and participated in numerous trips with veterans to Mexico, Peru and other locations for ethnobotanical healing. This work has been captured in documentaries including From Shock to Awe and Soldiers of the Vine.
Where to find Ian:
https://psychedelicmusalman.com/
Podcast: Psychedelic Time Share
Documentaries: Soldiers of the Vine, Shock to Awe
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