Tim Ferriss

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.

For certain, let's call it, people aren't gonna like this, some folks, but chaotic,

psychiatric disorders So let's just say there's a river and you can swim in the middle.

That's like complete normalcy That's pretty much no one and then on one side you have hyper rigidity.

Let's just say which is like OCD depression chronic anxiety anorexia nervosa Which are all characterized in a sense by a certain looping and rigidity Which is part of the reason why I think psychedelics are mysteriously

effective for this constellation of seemingly different diagnoses, right?

They're on this rigidity side.

I think classical psychedelics can be very, very helpful for that side of things.

Then on the other side of the river, you've got, let's just call it a more chaotic constellation of disorders, which would include schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder,

On that side of the river, it would seem that something like metabolic psychiatry is very, very interesting.

You see people who have been on dozens of medications and they're on the ketogenic diet for four weeks and then they get off of all of their medications.