Tim Ferriss
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first heard May 2026
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yeah, at the moment, for sure.
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I mean, look, ketamine would not be in my top five list.
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However, there are two huge caveats there.
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It is one of, I believe it's still on the World Health Organization's most essential medicines list.
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This is a very useful drug as an anesthetic.
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I mean, it's a dissociative anesthetic.
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So for instance, if you have any history of using alcohol, even to take the edge off, certainly if you have alcoholism or alcoholism in your family, ketamine is like the dissociative drug
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turning off of feelings you don't want that you get from alcohol times 100.
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Like ketamine, that is part of the reason why it can be so addictive.
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However, if you have chronic pain, this is, I know, not within the sphere of mental health, but for certain types of chronic pain, ketamine is incredible in terms of
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Very few rounds with very durable benefits.
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In fact, I really dislike ketamine in general, subjectively.
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Personally, it's just not really my thing.
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But I was getting so many questions about ketamine.
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This was probably 10 years ago.
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And I decided, well, look, I'm going to follow basically the Yale protocol and I'll get the whatever it is, 0.5 milligrams per kilogram or whatever the magic is.
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doses that everybody took as gospel, even though it was like an informed kind of guess on the part of John Crystal and his colleagues, whatever became the dogma.
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I was like, all right, I'll do at least one, probably two, two week sequences of infusions.
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So at least I can speak firsthand to the subjective effects and the experience, right?
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Like the phenomenology of the experience.
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