Ben Greenfield
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Yeah. But think about this. If you open that window, it's almost like ketamine therapy for addiction, right? Like if you do ketamine therapy and you realize after ketamine therapy, you've got a window for a few days where if you avoid that thing that you were addicted to, which is easier to do after the ketamine therapy, then you can break that addictive cycle. And it's kind of like with stress.
Yeah. But think about this. If you open that window, it's almost like ketamine therapy for addiction, right? Like if you do ketamine therapy and you realize after ketamine therapy, you've got a window for a few days where if you avoid that thing that you were addicted to, which is easier to do after the ketamine therapy, then you can break that addictive cycle. And it's kind of like with stress.
If you do a procedure like that and your body suddenly receives the message that it's safe and down regulates the sympathetic nervous system, It's going to allow you to be able to be less stressed even after the acute effects wear off. Does that make sense?
If you do a procedure like that and your body suddenly receives the message that it's safe and down regulates the sympathetic nervous system, It's going to allow you to be able to be less stressed even after the acute effects wear off. Does that make sense?
If you do a procedure like that and your body suddenly receives the message that it's safe and down regulates the sympathetic nervous system, It's going to allow you to be able to be less stressed even after the acute effects wear off. Does that make sense?
Yeah. You're not going to get anything. It's not going to be a Band-Aid.
Yeah. You're not going to get anything. It's not going to be a Band-Aid.
Yeah. You're not going to get anything. It's not going to be a Band-Aid.
If you get on Ozempic and you're going to control your calories and you're going to lose weight, but once you get off it, if you haven't developed healthy eating patterns during that time or used the Ozempic as training wheels— to do so say, oh, this is what it feels like to not be hungry. This is what it feels like to sit down and not eat all the food.
If you get on Ozempic and you're going to control your calories and you're going to lose weight, but once you get off it, if you haven't developed healthy eating patterns during that time or used the Ozempic as training wheels— to do so say, oh, this is what it feels like to not be hungry. This is what it feels like to sit down and not eat all the food.
If you get on Ozempic and you're going to control your calories and you're going to lose weight, but once you get off it, if you haven't developed healthy eating patterns during that time or used the Ozempic as training wheels— to do so say, oh, this is what it feels like to not be hungry. This is what it feels like to sit down and not eat all the food.
Or this is what it feels like to have one plate at the buffet, because I don't feel like I need more than if you were to wean off a drug like that, you would theoretically, if you, if you built the mindfulness during get to the point where you'd use it as training wheels and then you don't need it anymore. You know, it's like, even like my wife and I did fricking like MDMA couples therapy, right?
Or this is what it feels like to have one plate at the buffet, because I don't feel like I need more than if you were to wean off a drug like that, you would theoretically, if you, if you built the mindfulness during get to the point where you'd use it as training wheels and then you don't need it anymore. You know, it's like, even like my wife and I did fricking like MDMA couples therapy, right?
Or this is what it feels like to have one plate at the buffet, because I don't feel like I need more than if you were to wean off a drug like that, you would theoretically, if you, if you built the mindfulness during get to the point where you'd use it as training wheels and then you don't need it anymore. You know, it's like, even like my wife and I did fricking like MDMA couples therapy, right?
And that was the training wheels that it took for us to like really have long, deep, meaningful, honest, transparent discussions, which we now have without drugs. Yeah. And it's like, sometimes I don't think every couple, you know, for the rest of all time used to go out and do MDMA therapy to have honest discussions.
And that was the training wheels that it took for us to like really have long, deep, meaningful, honest, transparent discussions, which we now have without drugs. Yeah. And it's like, sometimes I don't think every couple, you know, for the rest of all time used to go out and do MDMA therapy to have honest discussions.
And that was the training wheels that it took for us to like really have long, deep, meaningful, honest, transparent discussions, which we now have without drugs. Yeah. And it's like, sometimes I don't think every couple, you know, for the rest of all time used to go out and do MDMA therapy to have honest discussions.
But my wife and I were at the point where we just developed, you know, almost like a barrier to doing that. And now. We can have great dates and sit in bed and talk for a long time. We don't have to like go use MDMA beforehand. Right. So a lot of these things are like training wheels.
But my wife and I were at the point where we just developed, you know, almost like a barrier to doing that. And now. We can have great dates and sit in bed and talk for a long time. We don't have to like go use MDMA beforehand. Right. So a lot of these things are like training wheels.
But my wife and I were at the point where we just developed, you know, almost like a barrier to doing that. And now. We can have great dates and sit in bed and talk for a long time. We don't have to like go use MDMA beforehand. Right. So a lot of these things are like training wheels.