Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

We sort of walk you all through that process in Dr. K's Guide to Trauma.

If you all want to know like how to rewire your brain and identity and physiology, like we go through that process.

So this is what's really cool because we don't have like great drugs for PTSD, but MDMA seems quite promising, right?

We're seeing a lot of reductions that are not crossing the midline.

So it seems like psychedelics do have very promising efficacy for things like treatment resistant depression, PTSD, alcohol use disorder.

Not all psychedelics are the same.

And the key thing to remember is that the way in which we use them seems to be responsible for the benefits that we get.

OK, so if you're super depressed and traumatized and you're just get using psychedelics in your house at home, it's not clear to me that that is going to be safe or effective.

So now let's move on to safety.

Here's where things get spicy.

So table three summarizes adverse reactions reported in 44 out of 70 total articles.

So the first thing to understand is that if we look at 70 studies on psychedelics, in 44 of those 70 studies, something bad happened, right?

So what are the adverse reactions?

So in 37% of studies, we see no serious adverse events reported.

Most common one is headache, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, transient anxiety and delusions, transient increase in blood pressure.

So

So if we look at the safety profile implied by this awesome meta-analysis, which looked at 70 studies, it's like, hey, transient increases in blood pressure, like transient delusions.

None of this traumatizing crap that Dr. K is talking about, PTSD, anxiety, panic disorder, like none of those found permanent panic disorder.

So what's up with that, Dr. K?

This meta-analysis that looked at 70 studies contradicts what you just said.