Tim Ferriss
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Not entirely on drugs.
Dead sober a lot of the time, where I'm like, there's just more to the story.
And we've never known the whole story.
We are very, very, very early in neuroscience and psychiatry.
It's like surgery 500 years ago.
Oh, there's a huge spiritual component.
I just don't usually talk about it because I've got so much I want to do on the scientific and policy side that if I sort of show my full hand, then people are going to be like, oh, that guy's a wackadoodle.
So I don't usually talk about the stuff that I can't really defend with randomized controlled trials.
I don't talk too much about, typically.
But there's a huge spiritual component.
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.