Dhru Purohit

click the link in the show notes that's called Try This, or just go to drewperohit.com, that's D-H-R-U-P-U-R-O-H-I-T.com, and click on the tab that says Try This.

Dr. Will Vanderveer, we're here today to talk about both the incredible promise and the real danger of psychedelic medicine.

This is for anybody who's ever considered psychedelic medicine for themselves or someone they love.

And I'd love to start off with the promise, the hope aspect.

Give me an idea or a story of something surprising, a surprising shift that you've seen happen with someone who came in with possibly no hope and was failed by the system of traditional mental health.

so powerful that not only you were able to help her, but able to share this in your new book, which is fantastic, by the way.

And one of the reasons that we were so excited to have you on is because you're not just an individual that has years and years of experience on this landscape of psychedelic medicine, in addition to traditional psychiatry.

you are also willing to call balls and strikes on the movement and talk about what works and what doesn't.

And to have a flip side to that story, and we're going to be unpacking both of these throughout the podcast,

Part of what you want to highlight in this book is that there's also real danger to, I don't want to say psychedelic medicine because psychedelic medicine is when you do it right.

Let's say it's just psychedelics.

There's a real danger when psychedelics are approached without reverence.

So to have another story that might be there, I was wondering if you might be able to share something with our audience that happens when people don't approach this work and this medicine with honor.

Yeah.

I'm so glad that you talked about that because as more and more individuals are becoming aware of both the potential of psychedelics, but also the danger, there's more interest in wanting to explore these, um,

medicines and drugs in some stages or examples.

And if people don't have a guide or a proper understanding of the best way to approach this, they could either be very flippant and say, hey, these all have no use.

And in fact, they're just going to lead you down a negative road.

Or we all probably, there's a lot of people that listen to this podcast have met the one person that

did psychedelics or does psychedelics every single weekend swears that, you know, it's led them to this higher state of consciousness, but it's not necessarily the type of person that we would want to emulate or be like or, you know, hang out with on a regular basis.