There is not a week that has gone by over the last 40 years where alcohol or other drugs hasn't hurt one of my patients.

It hasn't caused a fight, an accident, poor decision-making.

I know a lot of people go, come on, Dr. You need to lighten up. Just go get high.

You've heard that a lot. It's like, so which brain do you want? Every day you are making your

brain better or you are making it worse. Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.

We are so excited to introduce a new series of podcasts with the title, You Lied to Me.

Fortunately, it's not about us. It's not about us. Yeah. Could be a new series on infidelity. Yeah, but it's not.

You lied to me. But you have been lied to. And in this series, we're going to talk about why

people drink and use marijuana, psilocybin, nicotine.

We may get to ketamine and caffeine.

We talk about how they work.

We're going to talk about their brain mechanisms.

The benefits of them, because there's a reason.

So many people use them, and we're going to talk about the

consequences and we're going to do it in four circles. We'll talk about biological, psychological,

social, spiritual reasons why people use and their consequences. So I think one of the reasons

you wanted to call it,

you lied to me is because of the social conditioning and the industry and, you know, all the

commercials and, you know, we, that people have been lied to about that a lot of these things

are health foods, that they are good for you or that they're at the very, at the worst,

that they're innocuous in some ways.

Well, and so you're absolutely right.

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