How does IV ketamine therapy compare to nasal ketamine spray? Over the past decade the mental health treatment landscape has expanded beyond pharmacology and psychotherapy. Today, patients with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD have more access to groundbreaking interventions, like ketamine infusion therapy (or intravenous ketamine) and esketamine nasal spray. While both IV ketamine and […]
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Does ketamine therapy get you high?
And other common ketamine therapy questions. Over the past decade ketamine has experienced a major re-brand. For years ketamine was mostly recognized for its recreational effects—even though the FDA approved ketamine as a general anesthetic in the 1970s. But in 2000, the Yale School of Medicine published a randomized controlled trial demonstrating its antidepressant effects, […]
Is Ketamine Therapy an Effective Treatment for Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is often treated with one of three types of medication: mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, and anti-depressants. But for patients searching for an alternative to traditional medications (or a means of supplementing them) ketamine therapy is an increasingly accessible option. Though still considered a novel approach, clinical studies have indicated the efficacy of treating bipolar […]
Does Ketamine IV Therapy Actually Help Your Brain?
Our lead psychiatrist breaks down the brain-boosting benefits of ketamine IV therapy. Ketamine’s journey from its introduction in the 1960s to its current status as a respected therapy for depression and anxiety has been remarkable. Over the decades, ketamine IV therapy has garnered attention and admiration within the medical community for its profound effects on […]
Where Should You Undergo Ketamine Therapy?
The ketamine rebrand from party drug to powerful mental health aid has been slowly building over the past decade, but the past year has marked a turning point in its PR overhaul. Continuous coverage in reputable news outlets, a Netflix docuseries based on Michael Pollan’s 2018 best-seller How to Change Your Mind, and an abundance […]
How Does Environment Shape Your Psychedelic Experience?
As is the case with most instances in life, environment influences your experience with ketamine therapy. In fact, environment is so integral to the medicinal value of psychedelics that the industry uses its own term: Set & Setting. In the 1960’s Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary brought the term to wide recognition after publishing a guide […]
Is It Time For a Stress Reset?
Just calm down…easier said than done, especially when chronic stress seizes your entire body. The impact of stress on our emotional health is well documented, but what about our physical health? Stress doesn’t just exist in the mind—when a stressful situation arises, it can take over the body’s most basic functioning systems. The physical effects […]