Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

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1,658 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 27 May

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HealthyGamerGG · How Psychedelics Unlock Your Brain’s “Edit Mode” · 13 Oct 2025 podcast

This is a vasana too.

Your mind is vasanas all the way down.

So the key thing about detachment is not that you don't have wants, it is that your wants do not control you.

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So the 5-HT2A receptor does a couple of different things in the brain.

The first thing that it does is it affects things like mood and anxiety.

So the 5-HT, the serotonin receptor, is also what we're sort of focusing on with antidepressant medication.

So we know that if we alter the serotonin transmission in your brain, it will affect things like your mood and your anxiety.

Now, generally speaking, when we boost serotonin transmission, mood, like depressions, feelings of sadness and things like that go down, feelings of anxiety go down.

But this is where things get fun with psychedelics.

Because psychedelics, when we're talking about the 5-HT2A receptor and particular patterns of activation, there are also other things that this particular receptor does.

The first thing that it does is that it increases things like neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.

So what this means is that it changes the way that our brain wires itself or is wired, actually can cause stimulation of something called BDNF, which is brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which actually causes an increase in the growth of our neurons, causes new neurons to be born.

So we start to see lots of changes in the connectivity of the brain.

So let's look at that in a little bit more detail.

So here we have MDMA, ayahuasca, psilocybin, and LSD.

These are probably the four most well-studied psychedelics.

Here's the serotonin receptor.

And what we see is that we can see mood disorders and other mental disorders.

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