Tim Ferriss

So you're going to do a lot of homework on who's going to do that surgery.

And you're going to understand all the risks involved.

You're going to understand the durability, right?

You might need to get those hips replaced later again.

And what are you going to do?

You're going to do a lot of rehab.

It's like the surgery is the catalyst, but it's like if you have both knees replaced and you don't do any rehab,

that could have a worse outcome than not having surgery in the first place.

So what you do afterwards really matters.

And there's a lot of, I think, compelling research and a number of theories around this that I think are very credible from, say, Gould Dolan, who is a researcher who I believe now is at UC Berkeley, used to be at Hopkins.

who looked at MDMA extensively among octopuses also.

Among octopuses?

Yeah, and how octopuses, which are very asocial or antisocial most of the time, but how even with a completely different nervous system, how they would display prosocial behavior, just like humans on MDMA.

Oh, sir.

Really fascinating stuff.

But what she is also looking at now is how you might use psychedelics to, and I might be getting some of the details wrong, but I'm not that far off, to say help stroke patients to redevelop motor control.

Is there an application there?

And the reason that she's looking at potential applications like that is that she believes certain psychedelics reopen a critical period or a critical window, much like if kids don't learn to, say, speak a language within a certain age range.

It's much later to do later.

There's a critical developmental window for certain things.