PT563 – Why Psychedelic Research is Booming: Current Trends and Hurdles, with Floris Wolswijk

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Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…

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In this episode, David interviews Floris Wolswijk: senior project manager at Delphi; co-founder of FLO coaching; and founder of Blossom, an online informational hub collecting psychedelic courses, trials, companies, and over 2000 categorized research articles.

When Wolswijk began Blossom, he was barely able to fill a weekly newsletter, and now he’s adding a new study nearly every day, perfectly illustrating the exponential growth in psychedelic research. He talks about why so much research is happening (and why more isn’t), the trends he’s seen, the benefit in research changing people’s minds, and what he hopes for in the future. What can the research community learn from existing real world evidence, and how can retreat centers and underground communities contribute?

He also discusses:

What culture is like in the Netherlands, where psilocybin truffles are legal
Drug development and the possibilities of adjusting existing molecules
What we can learn from the Lykos and FDA situation
The economics of psychedelics and how insurance will likely be the next big conversation
His work with FLO coaching, and how coaching, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psilocybin can work together

and more!

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He also discusses:

What culture is like in the Netherlands, where psilocybin truffles are legal
Drug development and the possibilities of adjusting existing molecules
What we can learn from the Lykos and FDA situation
The economics of psychedelics and how insurance will likely be the next big conversation
His work with FLO coaching, and how coaching, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psilocybin can work together

and more!

For links, head to the show notes page.

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PT 588 - Neil Markey - Beckley Retreats 58:36

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