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BDNF and Microbiome: Your Paved Path to a Fulfilling Life
Strengthen your microbiome, build up your BDNF: Live Better and Enrich Your Relationships Feel sluggish…like your brain is falling down on the job? “Why did I come into the kitchen?” “Where are my keys?” “I’m so overwhelmed…!” Wishing you had more physical and mental energy… and feel kind of foggy..? It’s not surprising if you…
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NYT asks: Can We Stop Suicides? Here’s Our Response
An article published this past Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, in the New York Times Opinion section, asks about a possible remedy for suicidal thinking. Well researched, but not quite well enough. Keep reading… Author Moises Velasquez-Manoff explored the notion that maybe…just maybe…we can quell the epidemic rate of suicide. He points out that the suicide rate…
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Fuel Hope With Gratefulness All Year Round
Surprising Results Can Follow Counterintuitive Choices Thank you. Such sweet words. Here in the US, we’re just ending a four-day celebration we call Thanksgiving weekend. True, the official day for Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November each year — but it’s also true that most families spend the entire four day weekend continuing to…
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Ketamine KRIYA Conference 2018
KRIYA!! The most phenomenal ketamine conference to date! Last weekend I attended and presented at the ketamine KRIYA Conference 2018 in San Francisco. This conference emerged as the most dynamic gathering of front-line ketamine practitioners I’ve ever experienced. And what an event! The ketamine KRIYA Conference 2018 was extraordinarily different than any other research…
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Bipolar Disorder and Hypersexuality: Symptom or Excuse?
Most misunderstood symptom of bipolar disorder that divides families, shames sufferers, and hurts those who love them… BEGS to be treated before damage is done. It was 1am. Deftly, he slid the window open and quietly climbed into the room. In a moment his clothes were off and he was under the covers. 14-year-old Jillian…
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PTSD Can Make You Sick. Can Ketamine Stop That Before It Does?
Studies Imply PTSD is a Gateway Condition That Can Lead to Other Critical Illnesses. Ketamine treatment can bring PTSD to remission, and hopefully prevent these other illnesses. Bang! A sudden loud noise breaks the stillness. “What tha…??!! Your companion jumps with a startled exclamation, missing that you’re standing there frozen, pale, and in-one-motion spun around…
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The Right Dose of Ketamine for You
Ketamine Treatment for Mood Disorders is NOT One-Size-Fits-All Have you suffered from severe depression, suicidal thoughts, social anxiety… or PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, addiction… and the treatments your doctor prescribed didn’t help? Did you reach out to a doctor who offers ketamine, or a ketamine clinic in your area, and find that it hardly helped? It’s…
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PTSD and Sexual Assault: Can Ketamine Treatment Offer Hope?
PTSD and Sexual Assault Are Pervasive and Unrelenting She froze. Beads of perspiration broke out on her scalp…her eyes flashed wide. Terror gripped her and she prepared to fight off her attacker… She waited. Held her breath. Seconds passed. Then a minute….so she quietly sucked in some air… and slowly — almost imperceptibly— looked into…
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ASKP Meeting Notes: The 2018 Inaugural Conference of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians
New Advances in Ketamine Treatment 2018 has been a good year. A very good year. In this fall season of harvest and bounty which surrounds us outdoors, we find ourselves as ketamine physicians with wonderful gifts to work with: in our world of neuroscience and psychiatry, the soil is rich, the seeds have been planted,…
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Dissociation: Is It Key to Ketamine’s Antidepressant Response?
That Floating Sensation May Predict Ketamine’s Healing At Work Know anyone who’s depressed? I don’t mean someone feeling blue or disappointed, but really depressed. The hard-to- function type of depression. The hard-to-think-hard-to-get-out-of bed kind of depression. Where everything looks dark and hopeless, and you doubt yourself and your value…and it continues and gets worse for…