Dr. Marty McCary

They're reliving sometimes some terrible memories they had.

are in some sort of tremor sometimes.

And that's why if the FDA does officially approve these drugs, it will be under the condition that it's under close medical supervision.

There are many people who perceive that they might be candidates for these medications.

It's really going to be up to an individual physician to have that conversation with them.

There is a sense of urgency because we are still losing veterans to suicide at a very high rate.

As a matter of fact, more veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have died after those wars than during those wars.

So even though the wars have ended, our men and women still keep dying.

And that's because the battle may continue to rage in their brain in a sort of biochemical imbalance that we are just beginning to understand.

Now, doctors have traditionally treated PTSD in veterans with antidepressants known collectively as SSRIs.

Almost 90% of vets have been treated with an SSRI, but the results are not very good for some of these more severe conditions like PTSD.

So given the magnitude of the problem, we owe it to our nation's veterans to move with a sense of urgency in evaluating these products known as psychedelics.

We are now going to the next level of chemicals that affect the foods that children commonly consume.

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BHA is a chemical preservative that's very common in food.

About 4,600 different types of food that are common in the U.S.

food supply have BHA.

It's an ingredient that's found in rubber, in plastic, in glue.