Rick Perry

Dr. Charlie Gordon, who is a 40-plus year neurosurgeon, spine expert, looked at lots of brain scans.

A respectful skeptic of this.

When I told him I was going to be treated with this compound called Ibogaine, this psychoactive compound, he was recoiled a little bit.

He was like, you need to be really careful with that.

He has now gone from being respectful, skeptic, to looking at the data from the clinical trial that was done at Stanford, talking to a fairly good number of the veterans that went through that trial, talking to Dr. Williams, talking to other specialists at Stanford.

And he has gone from respectful, skeptic, to a full-on skeptic.

believer in this medicine.

I mean, an absolute supporter that this medicine does what it says it does.

It heals people of addictions.

It heals from PTSD.

This medicine does what it does.

And we're driving back from the airport that day after the six-month scan.

He had looked at it as it came off of the machine.

And he said, Governor, I'm not going to blow smoke up your dress.

Your atrophy is gone.

He said, I have no idea why this has happened.

But he said the difference between your initial baseline scan and six months later clearly

the atrophy in your brain is gone.

He said, your brain looks like a 40-year-old.

Now, the reason I share that story with you is because, number one, that's partly what drives me about this, is that there is a regenerative aspect of this medicine that we don't really understand yet.