Hello friends, welcome back to this show. My guests today are Martin Palanco, who's the founder of the Mission Within,

and a veteran mental health advocate, and Michael Higgs, who was command master chief of a Navy SEAL team,

and is director of operations at the Mission Within. For a long time,

once soldiers who have finished in war, their battles have often continued back home.

Both active and retired veterans suffer with childhood traumas,

life traumas, divorces, opioid addiction, family issues, traumatic brain injuries,

deaths of team members, chronic pain injuries, and long-term inflammation.

Martin and Michael believe that psychedelics are an important potential solution

to give suffering veterans another shot at a functional life.

Today, expect to learn how Iboga rewires the brain in 12 hours,

why Michael held a gun to his head after being out of the SEALs for two years.

The insane pressure placed on special forces operators by themselves,

what happened when Michael ate 20 grams of mushrooms on a native Indian reservation,

how to sign up for Martin's current studies, which he needs volunteers for, and much more.

This is a conversation I think you're going to see a lot more of of the coming years,

with athletes coming out of sports like American football and rugby and boxing,

needing therapy to help them with traumatic brain injuries and CTE,

and with the reams and reams of service men and women that also need help with whether it be

psychological, spiritual, or physical issues that they've accumulated whilst keeping their country safe.

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