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08/30/2026

Recreational use and therapeutic use are not the same thing.

I say that without judgment. They're different tools for different purposes.

In clinic — there is intention. There is a guide. A trained person whose only job is to hold the container for whatever surfaces.

If you've had powerful experiences on your own and you're wondering if a clinical setting offers anything different — it does.

You're probably thinking: I know how to navigate altered states. I don't need a guide.

And that's often true.

It's also where the most sophisticated avoidance lives.

Experienced psychonauts often have the most resistance in clinic. Because they know the terrain well enough to stay comfortable in it.

The clinical setting will ask you to go where you haven't let yourself go yet.

No amount of solo experience fully prepares you for that.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

08/29/2026

Nobody really tells you what a ketamine session feels like from the inside. So let me be direct about it.

Most people describe it as a loosening. The grip on your thoughts softens. Your identity quiets. The relentless internal noise that follows you through your day finally gets still. That usually happens within the first 10 to 15 minutes, and most patients land somewhere they describe as warmer and more peaceful than they anticipated.

The part that worries people most is the dissociation. The sense of being slightly outside yourself, or watching your mind from a distance. That part is real. It is also the part patients most often point to later as the moment something shifted.

That temporary loosening of self is not a malfunction. It is the mechanism. It creates just enough distance from your habitual patterns that a new perspective can form. Your sense of self always returns. Always.

If you have been curious about ketamine therapy but not sure what you are actually signing up for, this is the honest answer from a physician who works with this every day.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

08/28/2026

The studies say one thing. The people say another. A 2022 systematic review looked at everything we have on microdosing. Depression? Observational studies show improvement. Controlled trials? Weaker. Creativity? Same pattern. And the placebo effect is massive and unresolved. But here's what I won't do — dismiss the clinical reality because the science is young. I've been in medicine fifteen years. I've watched "insufficient evidence" become standard of care more times than I can count. The science matters. The suffering matters too. Both are true. New video — link in bio.

08/28/2026

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿:

The voice that tells you you're not enough — that you'll never get better, that something is fundamentally wrong with you — that voice is not the truth about you. It's a pattern your nervous system learned, often a long time ago.

The difference between you and that story matters more than most of us were ever taught.

Healing often begins not by silencing the voice, but by creating enough space to realize you're not the same as what it's saying.

That's what this carousel is about. And it's what I think about in the work we do every day.

Follow for more on the intersection of science, consciousness, and healing.

08/26/2026

FDA approved. Most people don't understand what that means — or doesn't mean.

There's a version of ketamine (esketamine/Spravato) that the FDA approved for treatment-resistant depression. And then there's IV and IM ketamine — legal to prescribe, used clinically for decades, but not FDA-approved specifically for depression.

These are not the same thing. What we accept in medicine and what gets official approval are often decades apart. Here's what actually matters for your decision.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

08/25/2026

The studies say one thing. The people say another. A 2022 systematic review looked at everything we have on microdosing. Depression? Observational studies show improvement. Controlled trials? Weaker. Creativity? Same pattern. And the placebo effect is massive and unresolved. But here's what I won't do — dismiss the clinical reality because the science is young. I've been in medicine fifteen years. I've watched "insufficient evidence" become standard of care more times than I can count. The science matters. The suffering matters too. Both are true. New video — link in bio.

⚠️ Educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Always consult your physician before making any health decisions.

08/24/2026

He told me he had done this at least 100 times.

Forty minutes into his first clinical session, he was sobbing. Not because the medicine was stronger. Because he finally realized he had been using every previous experience to avoid this exact moment.

That is the pattern I see most often in experienced psychedelic users. The movement from substance to substance, retreat to retreat, insight to insight. It looks like dedication. It can actually be the most elegant form of avoidance I have ever witnessed. The psyche is creative. It will use whatever tools you give it.

Clinical work is not more powerful than what you have done before. What makes it different is that it is held. There is a trained person in the room whose entire job is to notice when you are steering around the thing that needs attention. And then to point you directly at it, with care and without letting you off the hook.

If you have done a lot of this work and still feel like something essential remains just out of reach, that feeling might be worth paying attention to.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

08/24/2026

A cat bit me mid-take.

And just like that — I was here.

Not thinking about the session I just finished or the one coming up next. Not rehearsing what I was trying to say.

Just this moment. This bite. This cat.

That's actually what I was trying to explain.

The present moment doesn't wait for you to be ready. It doesn't announce itself. It just arrives — sometimes through a cat.

It's always here. Always available.

We just forget to notice.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

08/22/2026

0.3g from one source is NOT 0.3g from another. Same scale reading. Different potency. Here's why most microdoses are wrong — from a physician.

⚠️ Educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Always consult your physician before making any health decisions.

08/21/2026

The #1 question I get: is ketamine safe?

It's a fair question. And the answer is more nuanced than a yes or no.

Ketamine has been used in hospitals since the 1970s — in operating rooms, ERs, pediatric units. The safety profile is well-established. What matters in a therapeutic setting is patient selection, dose, monitoring, and what happens after the session.

Safe and appropriate are not the same word. That distinction is what I spend most of my time on.

I'm a physician who helps people integrate altered states. Follow if you want to go deeper.

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