#145 - Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment

Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeUpgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutKirsten 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 shamanic ritual for millennia — and watched their injury scores collapse from severe to normal in a month. It's a weak agonist for nearly every receptor in the body, yet it somehow delivers a tailor-made result to each person — a form of pharmacology science has never seen before.Expect to learn why veteran suicide outpaces combat deaths, how one dose collapsed PTSD, depression, and anxiety at once, why users describe their brains being "defragged," a researcher's 12-hour "conversation" with the ibogaine molecule itself, the bizarre phenomenon of "DMT blocking" by hostile entities, why ibogaine has no single receptor target — "matrix pharmacology," how brain age dropped by over a year in a single month, and why the results contradict science's leading theory of consciousness.Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began0:04:06 Veteran Suicide Now Outpaces Combat Deaths0:07:31 The 30-Veteran Study With Staggering Effect Sizes0:12:22 Ibogaine Isn't A Trip, It's A Waking Dream0:13:14 Vivid Trip Imagery: Slideshows And "Defragged" Brains0:15:02 Reconciling Trauma By Talking To The Dead0:20:01 What A Bad Ibogaine Trip Actually Looks Like0:24:50 Purging "Black Demons" In A Room Full Of Strangers0:27:23 The Scientist Who Talked To The Ibogaine Molecule0:33:36 Why Elite Special Forces Veterans Still Broke0:34:30 DMT Blocking: When Entities Refuse To Let You In0:41:22 The Psilocybin Researcher Who Believes In Telepathy0:43:00 Why Ibogaine Has No Single Target In The Brain0:46:25 The 1920s Thought Experiment That Proves We're Too Skeptical0:49:38 Ibogaine As A Full-System Diagnostic, Not A Drug1:03:36 Measurable Brain Change From An African Tree Fruit1:05:19 Brain Age Dropped Over A Year After One Dose1:17:21 The Finding That Contradicts The Leading Theory Of Consciousness1:20:28 If Ibogaine Research Got A Blank Billion-Dollar Check1:23:21 Could Ibogaine Help Parkinson's And ALS Patients?... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedDalibor Sames — Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9whp_wtCocAndrew Gallimore — No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDADavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oMatthew Johnson — Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHyy3aW09skRobin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkGuest LinksStanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/kirsten-cherianStanford 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-CherianVETS — Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions: https://vetsolutions.org/