#145 - Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment

<p>Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): <a href="https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe</a></p><p>Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): <a href="https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder</a></p><p>Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: <a href="https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about</a></p><p>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 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Timestamps</p><p>0:00:00 Trailer</p><p>0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began</p><p>0:04:06 Veteran Suicide Now Outpaces Combat Deaths</p><p>0:07:31 The 30-Veteran Study With Staggering Effect Sizes</p><p>0:12:22 Ibogaine Isn't A Trip, It's A Waking Dream</p><p>0:13:14 Vivid Trip Imagery: Slideshows And "Defragged" Brains</p><p>0:15:02 Reconciling Trauma By Talking To The Dead</p><p>0:20:01 What A Bad Ibogaine Trip Actually Looks Like</p><p>0:24:50 Purging "Black Demons" In A Room Full Of Strangers</p><p>0:27:23 The Scientist Who Talked To The Ibogaine Molecule</p><p>0:33:36 Why Elite Special Forces Veterans Still Broke</p><p>0:34:30 DMT Blocking: When Entities Refuse To Let You In</p><p>0:41:22 The Psilocybin Researcher Who Believes In Telepathy</p><p>0:43:00 Why Ibogaine Has No Single Target In The Brain</p><p>0:46:25 The 1920s Thought Experiment That Proves We're Too Skeptical</p><p>0:49:38 Ibogaine As A Full-System Diagnostic, Not A Drug</p><p>1:03:36 Measurable Brain Change From An African Tree Fruit</p><p>1:05:19 Brain Age Dropped Over A Year After One Dose</p><p>1:17:21 The Finding That Contradicts The Leading Theory Of Consciousness</p><p>1:20:28 If Ibogaine Research Got A Blank Billion-Dollar Check</p><p>1:23:21 Could Ibogaine Help Parkinson's And ALS Patients?</p><p>... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com</p><p>GS Episodes Mentioned</p><p>Dalibor Sames — Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9whp_wtCoc" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9whp_wtCoc</a></p><p>Andrew Gallimore — No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDA" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDA</a></p><p>David Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes &amp; OBE's: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5o" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5o</a></p><p>Matthew Johnson — Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHyy3aW09sk" targe