Dr. Paul Conti

And now they have side effects from all those seven medicines.

Maybe two of them are to treat the side effects from the other five, right?

And that's bad.

coming from the labs and the academic centers is so powerfully positive.

These are used in professional hands and with the right kind of guidance or extremely powerful tools, but used in the right way.

What happens is we see less communication or less chatter

in the outer parts of the brain, right?

In the outer parts of the cortex.

That's where language is, that's where vision is, that's where executive function is, so planning and task execution.

So, so much of that is about making our way in the world around us

And I think when we take the neurotransmission out of those places, right?

And we set it in a part of the brain and say the insular cortex, right?

The parts of the brain that are sort of in the middle, right?

Which I think, I believe is where our humanness really is.

So the psychedelics make there be less chatter, communication in these other parts of the brain.

And then we become seated in the part of the brain that I believe is most about our experience of true humanness.

It's why people can sort of see with clarity that, oh, that trauma, that thing is not my fault.

We feel a sense of compassion for ourselves.

We relieve ourselves, release ourselves from guilt.

And it's like, why is this so helpful to people?