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Today’s 30-Second Summary

If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:

• Today’s main feature discusses how ibogaine can help people to beat addictions by “resetting” the brain to a pre-addiction state

  • An extra benefit is that this means it can work for behavioral addictions (including bulimia), as well as alcohol, opioids, and other substances.

  • It’s important that it only be used under professional medical supervision, however—see the main feature for more details!

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Q&A Thursday

It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!

Have a question or a request? We love to hear from you!

In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!

As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!

So, no question/request too big or small 😎

❝Questions?❞

It seems that this week, everyone was so satisfied with our information, that we received no questions! (If you sent one and we somehow missed it, please accept our apologies and do bring our attention to it)

However, we did receive some expert feedback that we wanted to share because it’s so informative:

❝I work at a detox rehab in Mexico, where we can use methods not legal in the United States. Therefore, while much of the linked articles had useful information, I'm in the "trenches" every day, and there's some information I'd like to share that you may wish to share, with additional information:

1. Buprenorphine is widely used and ineffective for addiction because it's synthetic and has many adverse side effects. For heavy drug users it isn't enough and they still hit the streets for more opioid, resulting in fentanyl deaths. Depending on length of usage and dose, it can take WEEKS to get off of, and it's extremely difficult.

2. Ibogaine is the medicine we use to detox people off opiates, alcohol, meth as well as my own specialty, bulimia. It's psychoactive and it temporarily "resets" the brain to a pre-addictive state. Supplemented by behavior and lifestyle changes, as well as addressing the traumas that led to the addiction is extremely effective.

Our results are about 50%, meaning the client is free of the substance or behavior 1 year later. Ibogaine isn't a "magic pill" or cure, it's an opening tool that makes the difficult work of reclaiming one's life easier.

Ibogaine is not something that should be done outside a medical setting. It requires an EKG to ensure the heart is healthy and doesn't have prolonged QT intervals; also blood testing to ensure organs are functioning (especially the liver) and mineral levels such as magnetic and potassium are where they should be. It is important that this treatment be conducted by experienced doctors or practitioners, and monitoring vital signs constantly is imperative.

I'm taking time to compose this information because it needs to be shared that there is an option available most people have not heard about.❞

~ 10almonds reader (slightly edited for formatting and privacy)

Thank you for that! Definitely valuable information for people to know, and (if applicable for oneself or perhaps a loved one) ask about when it comes to local options.

We see it’s also being studied for its potential against other neurological conditions, too:

Read more: Ibogaine and Their Analogs as Therapeutics for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

For those who missed it, today’s information about ibogaine was in response to our article:

Let’s Get Letting Go (Of These Three Things)

…which in turn referenced our previous main feature:

Which Addiction-Quitting Methods Work Best?

Take care!

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Superficially, running is surely one of the easiest sports to get into, for most people. You put one foot in front of the other, repeat, and pick up the pace.

However, many people do not succeed. They head out of the door (perhaps on January the first), push themselves a little, experience runner's high, think "this is great", and the next day wake up with some minor aches and no motivation. This book is here to help you bypass that stage.

Jeff Galloway has quite a series of books, but the others seem derivative of this one. So, what makes this one special?

It's quite comprehensive; it covers (as the title promises) getting started, setting yourself up for success, finding what level your ability is at safely rather than guessing and overdoing it, and building up from there.

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