Dr. Andrew Huberman

Ketamine and PCP, same thing.

And I learned about PCP as the compound that was gonna make criminals like punch light poles and beat up 12 cops.

And yeah, I watched too much Chips when I was growing up.

For those of you old enough to remember, it was like Paunch and John.

They were on the motorcycles with the shorts.

My sister watched it too, but for completely different reasons.

So PCP was like this demonized drug.

But ketamine and all this stuff about ketamine

is now legal in the US.

I don't know its status here in Sydney, so I'll see if I get arrested on the way out.

But, you know, ketamine is potentially addictive.

People talk about the K-hole, et cetera.

Weird name, by the way.

The whole business with ketamine is, again, it's a potent MDMA, N-methyl-D-aspartate blocker, which blocks neuroplasticity in the short term, expands it in the long term.

So the way to think about these compounds, these drugs, is by way of their mechanism.

And so it should be no surprise that they're able to induce neuroplasticity.

The goal is not plasticity.

This is very, very important.

The goal is not plasticity.

The goal is plasticity directed toward a particular positive outcome.