This is Janet. By the time we met in my clinic, she was so depressed she couldn’t leave her home. I tried half a dozen medications in various combinations with her to no avail. And then we tried ketamine-assisted coaching. Within weeks, she was leaving her house with her husband…

An innovative path to true holistic health and the massive leap we need to heal Bad grades Herman Hollerith, the child of German immigrants born in the 1860s, once famously jumped out of a window to avoid schoolwork. He hated school so much he eventually left the New York City school system entirely. Hollerith went on to work in the U.S. Census Office. The main problem of…

Set up to fail “It’s the ultimate money-maker.” My friend, Gary, was referring to the GLP-1 agonists or latest weight-loss drugs which I’ve been writing about and prescribing to patients. Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro have hit our society like a tidal wave. …

Doctors are the worst patients When I was in medical residency, I was the perfect example of everything you shouldn’t do to live a happy, healthy life. A lot of it was out of my control, at least if I wanted to continue being a doctor. My work schedule demanded frequent 12–14 hour shifts and…

It started with a monster In 1922, Leonard Thompson was a 14 year-old boy in Toronto, Canada, who weighed all of 65 lbs, was balding, and smelled of acetone (the same substance we use as nail polish remover). Diabetes was killing him. But then Dr. Banting and his student Charles Best gave him the life-saving…

This is the official day to recognize mental health at a global scale. As a physician and the co-founder of a company focused on mental health, I wanted to take the moment to talk about why mental health is not actually what it seems. Mental health is not illness In the US and Canada, among…

Escapism — a distraction or tool? It’s been a long, arduous month for you. Work frequently drags into the late night and your spouse is about ready to call it quits after 3 weeks straight of them taking care of the kids and household chores alone. Your friends have practically forgotten you exist. And you just…

I am a board-certified internal medicine physician. That is pretty unusual in the psychedelics world, because most healthcare professionals in psychedelics are either psychologists or psychiatrists. This unexpected background gives me a particular perspective on psychedelic clinical applications that is not so obvious to others. I’ve spent years helping patients…

At the time of writing, a very well-known mental health telemedicine platform is getting a lot of heat due to an exposé by a former employee. They are shutting down major operations in response to a claim that they were overprescribing potentially addictive substances. …