Rewiring the Brain After War | Jonathan Dickinson | Ep. 449

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Jonathan Dickinson is the co-founder and CEO of Ambio Life Sciences, one of the world's leading ibogaine clinics. He's spent more than fifteen years on this — apprenticing in Tijuana clinics, running the Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance, and writing the field's first clinical safety guidelines. He's a Mexico-licensed psychologist. He holds the only active export license for iboga root and led the first Nagoya-compliant export out of Gabon, where he was initiated into two Bwiti traditions. His team co-authored the Stanford study in Nature Medicine on ibogaine and veteran traumatic brain injury. Ambio has now treated over 3,000 people. Most of what you think you know about ibogaine is probably wrong. It's not a high. It puts you flat on your back for twelve hours and asks for everything. It resets the body off opioids almost overnight. It seems to repair the brain in ways nobody fully understands yet — MS lesions shrinking, a guy walking in with a cane and leaving it behind. We get into the cardiac risk, the deaths, the Trump executive order, and why the science and the ceremony might not survive being pulled apart. And we talk about the part nobody wants to hear: the medicine doesn't do the work for you. Pick up Jonathan's Book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ibogaine-and-the-Bicameral-Mind/Jonathan-Dickinson/9798888504680 Join the Cleared Hot Newsletter: https://www.clearedhotpodcast.com Today's Sponsors: Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com LMNT: https://www.drinklmnt.com/clearedhot Timestamps: [00:00:00] Memorial Day opening remarks [00:01:24] “Folded Flag” song performance [00:05:20] Psychedelics, fear, and curiosity [00:14:32] Bad trips, setting, and policy [00:22:18] Supply, sourcing, and sustainability [00:32:23] Guest’s path into psychedelics [00:39:52] Apprenticeship and addiction treatment [00:47:19] What treatment looks like [00:53:49] MS cases and veteran outcomes [01:02:50] Traditional iboga initiation in Gabon [01:12:03] Building Ambio for veterans [01:21:09] 5