Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia
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Podcast Appearances
Some people may say, yes, I don't think that's the case.
I'm going to give you all an example.
When I was an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School, I once had a patient, my first patient with K2.
So K2 is a synthetic form of marijuana, makes people psychotic.
So I walked in to evaluate them.
I was like, oh my God, I got emotionally triggered.
Like I got so triggered by it, right?
And I experienced a lot of emotions, right?
Over time, so then those emotions got triggered.
And remember, emotion will alter the way that my brain functions.
If I don't process it in the right way, it'll sensitize me.
There's a certain phenomenon in neurology called kindling.