Tim Ferriss
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't love that word spiritual, but I don't know a better replacement.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know a better replacement.
But I think that if what you're looking for is relief from something like depression, OCD,
GAD, generalized anxiety disorder, I think the brain stimulation is incredibly compelling, and that the effects with a successful treatment, and there are some really, there are some new approaches to that which make it really interesting.
Like, single day, stimulations, a few minutes per hour for 10 hours straight, pre-dosing with a drug called D-cycloserine, that's it.
That's the treatment, one day.
And you might have durability for three to 12 months.
Like, anxiety from 10 to 1.
Wow.
Wow.
Like, they're not... I can't say that for... I can't say that reliably for any psychedelic.
So if you're looking for relief from those symptoms functioning in this world, I think there are a lot of tools in the toolkit, which is good news, right?
Metabolic psychiatry would be another example.
If you're looking to...
touch something that feels timeless, whatever that is, right?
Even if it's just a hallucination.
But if you're looking to touch something timeless and lose your fear of death, I think a lot of human suffering is wrapped around being, as far as we know, the only species that is aware of its own pending death, right?
I don't think you get there through brain stimulation.
I do think you can get there through psychedelics.