Ketamine Treatment Pioneer & ER Physician Reveals Hack That Rewires Trauma In Minutes

What if trauma isn’t a life sentence, but a circuit your brain can rewire?

In this episode, ER physician and ketamine therapy pioneer Dr. David Dansky shares the powerful science behind ketamine, how it helps patients heal from deep trauma, and the risks no one talks about.

He also unpacks the neuroscience of inner voices, childhood wonder, and the blurry line between medicine and mysticism.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
0:06:37 Emergency room stories and emotional chaos
13:15 Childhood wonder, psychedelics, and altered perception
19:52 Growing up in a psychoanalyst household
26:30 Discovering Tibetan Buddhism and otherworldly experiences
33:07 Hearing voices: intuition or consciousness?
39:45 Inner guides, multiple selves, and IFS
46:22 The first ketamine patient + real healing begins
53:00 Ketamine’s brain mechanism explained
59:37 The snowglobe metaphor for mental reset
1:06:15 Reactive vs responsive: rewiring trauma responses
1:12:52 A mother’s transformation: from rage to presence
1:19:30 Risks of ketamine addiction + Matthew Perry example
1:26:07 Street vs clinical use: safety, dosage, and oversight
1:32:45 Can ketamine heal and harm at the same time?
1:39:22 Should ketamine be regulated like coffee or Oxy?
1:46:00 Final thoughts: healing, humility, and human potential