#385: The World's Largest Psychedelic Research Center

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Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris, and welcome to a very exciting edition of the Tim Ferris Show. This is an in-between episode, and that means that the format is a little weird. It's not a long form interview, but it's a very, very important announcement. This is something I've been working on for Around a year and a half, very intensely, and something diligent scientists have been working toward for twenty plus years, multiple decades. This episode features a recording of a press conference that I did last week announcing the launch of the world's largest psychedelic research center and the first psychedelic research center in the US. It is called the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research or Research, if you prefer. at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Among other things, they'll be investigating the effectiveness of psychedelics as a new therapy for opioid addiction, Alzheimer's disease, specifically the depression that often accompanies Alzheimer's disease, but they'll be looking at secondary outcomes

which will track cognitive effects, which is of great interest to me. Post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, post treatment Lyme disease syndrome, formerly known as chronic Lyme disease, anorexia nervosa Which has the highest mortality rate, i.e., fatality rate of any psychiatric disorder, and alcohol use in people with major depression. The researchers hope to create precision medicine tailored to individual patients' specific needs. It's super exciting. I couldn't be happier and it wouldn't have happened without generous support from Steven and Alexandra Cohen at Cohen Give, C O H E N G I V E on Twitter, Matt Mollenweg. at photomat M A T T on Twitter, Blake Mykowski at Blake Mykowski M Y C O S K I E on Twitter, and Craig Narenberg. Many thanks also to Benedic Carey of the New York Times for investigating and reporting on this from multiple perspectives as he's done for many, many years. He is at Ben Carrie.

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