Ayahuasca for Palestine and PTSD

Ayahuasca for Palestine and PTSD

Author: StandUpScotland © Thor Holt 2025 March 12, 2025 Duration: 34:47

Why war-prone Western leaders need Ayahuasca, how Aya PTSD treatment enables Western soldiers to make healthier life choices and much more... We travel from sanitised Yale to jungle purges with Max C Wood (IG) today, who's working on psychological and biological markers for the therapeutic potential of Ayahuasca in traditional (Shipibo) settings with research organisation, Onaya.

Based in the heart of the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve near Iquitos in Peru, the Ayahuasca Foundation’s Riosbo Research Center is Onaya Science’s main research hub.

The team works alongside the Indigenous healers to design and conduct studies into ceremonial ayahuasca, involving them at every stage of the research. Check out the valuable work Onaya are doing here at their website and follow them on Instagram Onaya (IG) You can connect with Max on LinkedIn here.

Connect with Thor on LinkedIn here and check out his 5 star coaching client feedback on TrustPilot here


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