Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment

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🧠 THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Here is the full, ad free version of my conversation with Kirsten Cherian. Kirsten Cherian is the Stanford neuropsychologist who gave Special Forces veterans with traumatic brain injuries a single dose of ibogaine, a psychedelic root used in African ritual for millennia, and watched their disability scores fall from severe to normal within a month. Ibogaine is a weak agonist at nearly every receptor in the body, yet it seems to deliver a tailor-made result to each person, a kind of pharmacology science has never seen before. Expect to learn: - The Veteran Crisis: why suicide now outpaces combat deaths - One Dose: how PTSD, depression and anxiety all collapsed together after a single treatment - The Defrag: why veterans describe their brains being rebooted like a hard drive - The Molecule Conversation: the materialist chemist who spent 12 hours "talking" to ibogaine - Younger Brains: how estimated brain age dropped by over a year in a single month GS EPISODES MENTIONED Dalibor Sames - Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/K9whp_wtCoc Andrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o Matthew Johnson - Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience: https://youtu.be/FHyy3aW09sk Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk GUEST LINKS Stanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/kirsten-cherian Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab: https://bsl.stanford.edu/ MISTIC Study (Nature Medicine, 2024): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38182784/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kirsten-Cherian VETS — Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions: https://vetsolutions.org/ LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 SKOOL Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began 0:04:06 Veteran Suicide Now Outpaces Combat Deaths 0:07:31 The 30-Veteran Study With Staggering Effect Sizes 0:12:22 Ibogaine Isn't A Trip, It's A Waking Dream 0:13:14 Vivid Trip Imagery: Slideshows And "Defragged" Brains 0:15:02 Reconciling Trauma By Talking To The Dead 0:17:55 What A Bad Ibogaine Trip Actually Looks Like 0:22:44 Purging "Black Demons" In A Room Full Of Strangers 0:25:17 The Scientist Who Talked To The Ibogaine Molecule 0:31:30 Why Elite Special Forces Veterans Still Broke 0:32:24 DMT Blocking: When Entities Refuse To Let You In 0:37:02 The Psilocybin Researcher Who Believes In Telepathy 0:38:40 Why Ibogaine Has No Single Target In The Brain 0:42:05 The 1920s Thought Experiment That Proves We're Too Skeptical 0:45:18 Ibogaine As A Full-System Diagnostic, Not A Drug 0:59:16 Measurable Brain Change From An African Tree Fruit 1:00:59 Brain Age Dropped Over A Year After One Dose 1:13:01 The Finding That Contradicts The Leading Theory Of Consciousness 1:16:08 If Ibogaine Research Got A Blank Billion-Dollar Check 1:19:01 Could Ibogaine Help Parkinson's And ALS Patients? .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com