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Joie de Vivre with IV Ketamine Can Replace Last Resort Treatments
When Depression Doesn’t Get Better When you’re sick of one more trial. One more dose increase. A new augmentation agent. Another cross taper…reducing dosage on one drug while increasing it with another… When you’re sick of just feeling so sick and tired and miserable. When you can’t stand the thought of gaining more weight. What…
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Breaking News: Another Way IV Ketamine SMASHES Depression
Another way IV Ketamine SMASHES depression Sometimes news is so hot it sizzles. It lures you away from whatever you’re into. It captivates you. And then — just face it — you think to yourself, with admiration, OMG. You say to yourself … whoever came up with that is brilliant. They nailed it. Well, Mark Rasenik…
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IV Ketamine + Neuroplasticity = Relief, Relaxation, and Relishing Life
I could use some of that. We hear that all the time. Relief, relaxation and relishing your life can sound so far away … but it doesn’t have to be. As word gets out about IV ketamine treatment for depression and other psychiatric mood disorders, more and more studies are emerging. New information is surfacing…
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Ketamine Wannabe Drugs … of the Future
Ever have somebody copy you? You know, try to be like you? Imitate what you do, where you go? try to get what you have? They wannabe like you. Well, maybe not just exactly like you — kind of like you and better than you all at the same time. It’s happening with ketamine. We’ve been talking…
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IV Ketamine and Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders
IV Ketamine and Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders After reading today about a beautiful young man – let’s call him Tom – whose life ended tragically at the crossroads of despair, I started thinking. Like many of my own patients, he had a wondrously warm and giving heart — and a compassionate heart the size of Montana for…
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PTSD Has a New Predator: IV Ketamine
PTSD Has a New Predator: IV Ketamine He’d seen active combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit had grown close. Tight. Trusted each other with their lives. They’d cheered when word came that Jarrett’s baby had been born. They’d gotten drunk with Ben when his mom died. They had each other’s back, and knew each other in…
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IV Ketamine: Doing What Prozac Can’t
Excitement about IV Ketamine Recently, I shared my perspective about the consensus statement released by the American Psychiatric Association’s Council of Research on Novel Biomarkers and Treatments Task Force. Their statement was about the use of IV ketamine for treating mood and other psychiatric disorders. That Task Force, in its consensus statement, assured members of the…
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JAMA Psychiatry Weighs In: The “Ketamine for Depression” Buzz
JAMA: “Ketamine for Depression” Buzz The mental health community is all a-buzz about IV ketamine for treating depression and other psychiatric disorders, and for good reason. For the first time, people who’ve been treated without success for years are experiencing relief and enjoying their lives. For anyone who has suffered from psychiatric disorders without relief…
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Ketamine IV, IM, or IN for Depression: Which is Best? (Does It Matter?)
Why do we always talk about IV ketamine for treatment-resistant depression, rather than just ketamine? Can’t we give it any old way…ketamine IV, IM, or IN for depression? Why is it so important that it be given as an intravenous infusion, rather than as an intramuscular injection or an intranasal spray? Ketamine IV, IM, or IN…
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How Ketamine Turbo Boosts Brain Compost to Improve Your Mood
In a recent post, we talked about the impact of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) on the prolific development of neuronal synapses, or nerve connections, in the brain. BDNF is like a rich, organic compost that spurs dense growth. And we talked about how IV ketamine turbo boosts brain compost and multiplies the connections in your…