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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