Tim Ferriss

Can you reopen those windows using psychedelics?

And it seems like the answer is yes.

In which case, all of the advice that the old timers have been giving about integrations for people who might be familiar with ayahuasca in a traditional context, the diets afterwards, abstaining from certain things,

for a few weeks what does that sound a lot like sounds a lot like what science is only beginning to scratch the surface of which is the reopening of these these critical periods critical windows within which you can start to rewrite behaviors like before the concrete sets so i'm very i would say

mind-blown and impressed with what these compounds can do as part of a larger context of some type of therapy.

And there are a lot of different approaches to this.

And the Westernized version of, like, neo-shamanic practices is very different from what they actually do.

in whether it be the Amazon or Africa or fill in the blank, right?

Like, the practices are very different, or the Mazatecs in Mexico, et cetera.

So, I would say I'm very impressed, and I'm also very conservative.

And the vast majority of people who come to me and they're like, yeah, yeah, I really want to do psychedelics, I talk them out of it, not into it.

Really?

Yeah, the vast majority.

I talk out of it.

Which is not to say I think the risks outweigh the benefits, but there are certain people.

If you have family history of schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder, I do not recommend using these things.

Which is another reason why I'm so excited about the different types of brain stimulation or vagus nerve stimulation.

Because, or, this is another one actually that I'll throw out there, metabolic psychiatry using diet.

the ketogenic diet specifically.

There's an associate professor, I think he's still an associate professor at Harvard named Chris Palmer, who has looked at this very extensively.