Psychedelics As Medicine: What You Need to Know | Christian Angermayer | TECH | Rubin Report

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Christian Angermayer founder of Apeiron Investment Group about possible solutions to the unfolding mental health crisis, what really happens to your brain on psychedelics, and the promise of psychedelics in health care. First, Christian explains how a fear of the future and a digital transformation of industries is leading to skyrocketing levels of anxiety and depression. Christian shares his own personal story of using magic mushrooms and explains the potential for their use in treating mental health issues. He also explains how he ended up creating Atai Life Sciences to explore the medical possibilities of psychedelics. Christian does his best to explain how psychedelics work and why psychedelic experiences are so hard to explain in words. He describes the experience as more like a spiritual awakening. He also explains the connection between psychedelics and religion and its importance in spirituality. He describes an acid trip as feeling like you are dissolving the ego or experiencing some sort of ego death. He shares a sampling of some of the psychedelic insights that have been had by people he’s worked with while using psychedelics. Christian describes the potential of healing trauma with psychedelics, psychedelic assisted therapy and how they will be used by the health care system in the not too distant future. He describes what neuroplasticity is and how it can help in the treatment of addiction or eliminating bad habits. He also describes the negative health outcomes in the elderly due to social isolation and the place that psychedelics may have in treating loneliness.

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