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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back. Today,

let's discuss a number of studies regarding longevity, depression, and muscle recovery.

Research that's recently been published and that we can use to fine tune what you're

doing to optimize mood, what you're doing to live longer, and what you're doing of hopefully

you're exercising to recover better.

To start things off, let's cover a few pretty exciting studies about what we can do from a natural or natural-ish perspective for improving depression.

This first study, I think, is very, very interesting in that it looked at ketamine therapy.

We've discussed ketamine on the podcast in the past,

historically used as an antipane or analgesic medication,

and now it's being used for PTSD, anxiety, depression,

substance abuse, or addiction.

And so in this study, a meta-analysis. So again,

meta-analysis is going to be a pretty good data point of three randomized control trials.

What was unique about this study? They studied those with depression and suicidal thoughts,

but the intervention specifically looked at ketamine

therapy without the addition of psychotherapy. Oftentimes, when we discuss, when we hear about

whether it be a traditional, you know, psychoactive or psychedelic, or it's something like ketamine, which is similar but different,

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