Dr. Keith Humphreys

So if it took that long to do, the odds that this would ever be scaled up in the health system are pretty low, right?

So there are real reasons why if you can do something in less time, you do it.

Right, so that's one of the interesting things about ketamine, like if you blocked, you know, our late great friend Nolan Williams was looking at like if you could block like say with some kind of naltrexone molecule,

block the blink of nights and the visions and all that stuff, would it still have the same effect?

That is a great question for science to figure out.

Now, some people say, but I like that part.

It's like, okay, but a lot of people find that actually pretty upsetting.

But if they could take ketamine and not have that kind of vivid dissociation stuff and they were depressed and help them, that would be a good medicine to have, right?

Plasticity which we have naturally the most when we're young is absolutely a two-edged sword.

So if you try to learn French at my age, it's just really, really hard to pick up that new habit, whereas if you grow up speaking it or you try to learn as a second language teenager,

you're gonna have much more capacity to get it and retain it, that's true.

It's also true that if you start smoking cigarettes in my age, you probably will not get addicted.

And if you start smoking cigarettes when you're 13, you almost certainly will.

Is that true?

Yes, same thing, plasticity.

Almost all addictions start when people are young.

And you can think of it as a learned, you know, it's maladaptive learning, but it is learning, you know, that you acquire those things and you stay all the way through.

It's why, you know, sometimes older people, I can remember getting mad, like shows they like got canceled and people were watching them.

I remember the show because my parents watched it, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Well, why?