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The Link Between Hormones and Mental Health Part II

The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy

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The Effects of Ketamine on Hormones

Ketamine calms the excitatory neurons in our brain those are called glutamate receptors that we have or NMDA receptors is what they call it. This isn't like you know the ketamine that people are doing at rock concerts or you know doing for a drug trip this is therapy assisted ketamine. I will tell you that my brain is a hundred percent may probably even a thousand percent calmer things that normally trigger me are not triggering me. The research on ketamine says that if we can get the NMD receptor sites glutamate receptor sites to calm down then those thoughts start to stop their looping and ketamine is a door into that.

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