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

There is a huge difference between

between the side effects that we see in a trial and the side effects that we see in real life.

Because in a trial, you have someone who goes to a clinic.

They get seen by a doctor for 14 weeks in a row.

They're very carefully monitoring what is going on.

You've got therapists, if you start to feel a little bit anxious, if you have a bad trip, you have therapists there with you when you are bad tripping, and you have therapists there to help you process or metabolize or fix whatever goes wrong.

This is one of the key reasons why I think the danger, my personal opinion, is that the danger from psychedelics is far greater than what the trials suggest.

And this is true of basically all medicine, right?

So you can look at basically any clinical trial, not, I mean, not all, but a lot of clinical trials and a lot of studies and a lot of FDA approvals will show that medications are generally speaking safe.

And then we will start using them in the general population.

And it turns out, oh, it's like way worse than we thought.

The safety and efficacy profiles of medications, generally speaking, after they get widely used, the efficacy goes down and the safety risks actually get worse.

So I'll give you all just a couple of examples.

So thalidomide was a great anti-nausea drug that we used for cancer treatment.

Awesome, looked wonderful, things like that.

People started taking thalidomide when they had cancer and then it worked really well.

So then some doctors were like, oh, cool, like this is such a powerful nausea drug.

You know what other group of people?

gets nauseous a lot?

Pregnant women.

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