Professor David Nutt joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about psychedelic therapy. Do magic mushrooms combat depression? How does ketamine therapy work? What happened during Bryan Johnson’s 5-MeO-DMT livestream? Answers to these questions and many more await on Psychedelic Therapy Support.
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00:00 – Psychedelic Therapy Support
00:14 – 🍄 = a knife fight with Kermit the Frog?
01:37 – Open up your mind
02:24 – You hear that too, right?
02:49 – Tripped too hard, reality not found
03:21 – Psychedelics vs. psychosis
04:42 – Psychedelics and PTSD
05:38 – MDMA: 10% trip, 90% jawline
06:41 – Am I an alien?
07:47 – Tranquilize your trauma
08:27 – Freudian slip? Nah, I was just in a k-hole
09:25 – Soft launching a new brain with ketamine
10:17 – Even the bureaucracy got microdosed
10:56 – Ibogaine: factory reset for your brain
12:08 – Bryan Johnson’s 5-MeO-DMT experience
13:02 – The future of psychedelics
14:31 – Mother Ayah is calling…
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@TheRealLarissa
August 18, 2026 at 4:27 pm
I’m not interested in such drugs.
@RichardinSiam
August 18, 2026 at 4:28 pm
Sadly the more you take the less that effect becomes. But, honestly when I tried the whole mental health aspect a few years ago was remarkable. The first few times it really does adjust you. It allows you to see in between the masks. The mask you show the world the mask that covers you soul.
@DerrickJLive
August 18, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Bless this man
@alexandru.pavalache
August 18, 2026 at 4:58 pm
<3
@finger-bang
August 18, 2026 at 4:58 pm
The people trying to ban psychedelic therapy are the same ones screaming about personal liberty and states rights.
Let people do what they want to THEIR OWN BODIES.
@ins3
August 18, 2026 at 4:59 pm
Prof David Nutt is a national treasure
@doubleuenbeeeh
August 18, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Wild mispronunciations throughout
@Anson120
August 18, 2026 at 5:35 pm
My sister did acid and went to “james and the giant peach” in the theater. We thought she was crazy for doing acid, but now we wish she saved some for us. 😂
@iamdmc
August 18, 2026 at 5:46 pm
I attended one of Prof Nutt’s lectures as a master’s student
It was the best lecture I’d attended before and since
He’s truly open-minded and a real scientist: putting data (and patients) ahead of preconceptions and dogma
@MiloWasentHere
August 18, 2026 at 5:51 pm
I have a friend who just started a ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression and it has been really interesting hearing their experience, they described seeing their whole family live out their lives as ferrets which sounded really sweet
@AlerieHightower
August 18, 2026 at 5:52 pm
I had my first ketamine experience when I had a full face and neck lift under local anesthesia a few weeks ago. I didn’t have a single bit of pain or anxiety during a pretty long and invasive procedure. I can see how it helps take the edge off of traumatic memories. The only downside was that my memory was fuzzy for a couple of days afterward, and I was only reminded of the extremely inappropriate amount of online shopping I did during those days after the packages started showing up. 🤦♀
@Mojova1
August 18, 2026 at 6:19 pm
Just use the word “ecstasy” so people actually know what you are talking about. I have never heard of MDMA in my life.
@Tictac_Tactic
August 18, 2026 at 6:44 pm
Wish I could legally get my hands on some of this beautiful medicine!
@sarahbob8401
August 18, 2026 at 6:54 pm
magic mushrooms will also alter your brain and put you in a mental hospital for the rest of your life….enjoy.
@unclefreddy2009
August 18, 2026 at 6:54 pm
This is what is needed, real science. No bs “weed will cure your xyz problem” nonsense. There is a lot to explore and learn and not all of it is good, and it requires evidence and science. Fantastic inquisitive scientist here.
@pointydeity4865
August 18, 2026 at 7:03 pm
Interesting video but the jump cuts after every phrase were really annoying. Yeah yeah call me a boomer if you must.
@treehuggingbuddhist
August 18, 2026 at 7:26 pm
50 years of antidepressants, therapy and even ECT did nothing for my CPTSD. Of course, we didn’t have a name for it back then…but ketamine and mushrooms allowed my brain to make connections and progress to a point where I no longer need traditional meds. Remain open minded and hopeful y’all. You’ve got this! ❤️🌲
@TaylorMD86
August 18, 2026 at 7:28 pm
I’m not quite sure why some people are adamantly opposed to potentially life saving or positive life changing treatment for an individual that causes no harm to them, the patient, or anyone else.
@andreahxnicole
August 18, 2026 at 7:34 pm
I love this!! So happy this videos exists. Very helpful
@gardengal87
August 18, 2026 at 7:54 pm
What would happen if you gave an Alzheimers patient low dose mushrooms? Might it help at all?
@ronaldocost4
August 18, 2026 at 8:53 pm
instructions unclear
HIGH AF
@michaelsalmon9832
August 18, 2026 at 8:53 pm
I think there needs to be careful research on this. I suspect that the effects of these drugs are so powerful because they are so damaging, and that the meaning implanted in the user is the result of what happens after the trip.
@FragileMayhem
August 18, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Everyone deserves a great trip sitter
@comolaflxr
August 18, 2026 at 9:03 pm
More studies or citing on girls and women- survivors of CSA with cPTSD pls.
@rinnylin
August 18, 2026 at 9:17 pm
I remember when I first heard about ketamine and brought it up to my doc (was trying different meds until I found one that works) and he was like, “I will go to jail. You have to see a psychiatrist.” It made me laugh.