Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

then I will have a sort of positive, you know, wiring, if that kind of makes sense.

So what psychedelics basically do is turn our brain into edit mode where we can start editing the source code.

So what that means is that the kind of edits that we make are ultimately what makes psychedelics potentially therapeutic or potentially harmful, right?

So really all they do is allow us to edit.

Then the code that we put in is ultimately what's important.

And this is what the studies show.

So just to give you all an example of like, you know, what studies on psychedelics actually look like, what we'll do is we'll take like a patient or a set of patients.

And for 12 to 14 weeks, we'll have like a 14 week study on psychedelics.

What these people will do is they will go to a medical clinic where they will work with a therapist for the period of 14 weeks.

They'll do some amount of therapy for like three or four weeks.

where they kind of say like, okay, like, what do you want to work on?

Tell me about your trauma.

So the therapist knows what your triggers are, what you're trying to focus on, what your goals are.

They also know what to protect you against.

So for three or four weeks, you'll kind of do this kind of therapy, and then you'll have your first psychedelic dosing.

You have a psychedelic dosing, and this is what's really crazy, okay?

So in some of these studies, you'll have a dyad of therapists, one male and one female, who will sit with you for eight hours over the course of the psychedelic trip.

Very safe location with two trained professionals for eight hours, making sure that everything goes okay.

After the psychedelic trip ends, you then have three or four more weeks where you take all of these revelations and you start to integrate them into your life, into your identity.

You try to process, you sort of get rid of the bad, lock down the good, and then you'll have a second dosing.