Embody Radio

**DISCLAIMER: THIS PODCAST IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE AND IS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT CONSUME ANY DRUG WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL** On today's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kelsey Ramsden of MINDCURE. Kelsey is a cancer survivor, and what we could call a lifelong entrepreneur, starting in the construction and real estate industries, who then moved into the world of psychedelics, where she helped find MINDCURE. In today's episode, we talked about Kelsey's career evolution, how she discovered psychedelics and psychedelic assisted therapy, and we dive into some of the nuts and bolts of psychedelics (with a heavy focus on psilocybin, but also touching on the class of psychedelia as a whole, including MDMA, ketamine, LSD, ibogaine, 5-meO-DMT, peyote, and others).  We focus on Kelsey's own journey through psychedelic assisted therapy; what to expect from a psychedelic journey; the effects of psilocybin on the nervous system, neuroplasticity, and connectin