Ibogaine for Addiction & Ibogaine for Depression - Which is better? A flood dose? or microdosing?

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Lily Kotila

​Rapid Ibogaine Treatment is open during Co-Vid times.  While we take necessary precautions in order to ensure safety, a “quarantined period of time” due to Corona Virus is not necessary for our clientele.
 
We are a one-on-one, at your service, individualized care treatment program where you will not have exposure to other clients at the same time, (unless you come as a couple).

If you struggle with heroin addiction, opiate addiction alcoholism or methamphetamine abuse, ibogaine plant medicine is very helpful in terms of re-setting your system and giving you a new opportunity for growth in new directions. 90% of Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms are eliminated.  Stopping heroin or opiate addiction is close to impossible without facilitation of the mind and body due to the adverse effects of cessating.
 
The iboga plant is not only beneficial for addicts, ibogaine is very helpful for people struggling with severe depression.  Many cases of untreatable SSRI depression experience positive results by using ibogaine.  25% of the population has a natural immunity to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor medication, thus making traditional psychiatric prescriptions inefficient.

 
For both addiction and for depression, Ibogaine can be given in a “flood dose” and its results are effective.  The MD administers capsules milligrams of the plant medicine based on Kg of body weight or based on which type of CYP2D6 (Cythochrome P450) conversion rate an individual has which is determined by a genetic marker located on chromosome 22.

Ibogaine converts to noribogaine and is stored in the fat cells or adipocytes for up to 10 weeks helping to assuage minor waves of post withdrawals following the first two weeks of what would be PAWS. 

The ability for the body to hold onto nor-ibogaine for two months also helps people with depression maintain their appropriate neurotransmitter levels, in particular, that of serotonin. ​​​

One might think that as serotonin is a neurotransmitter, it is mostly found in the brain.  However,  90% of serotonin is produced in the digestive tract or the gut.  Absorption of ibogaine primarily occurs in the digestive system and the liver.  For depressed people seeking treatment for their states of beings, ibogaine not only psychologically provides an opportunity to “reshuffle the mental deck of cards” or “ways of viewing the world” (opening up possibility for permanent change), but somatically or biologically, it alters serotonin neurotransmitter levels and keeps them elevated for a long enough period of time where the individual has an opportunity to recalibrate his energy/vibration/connection with his self and with the world.

Two good movies to watch are:  LIMITLESS and INSIDE OUT.  

The themes of these movies are representative of “the peel away effect” and the “rebuild of the psychological processes” that happen with a therapeutically guided ibogaine flood dose due to the plant medicine’s malleable psychedelic effects.

IBOGAINE MICRODOSING

If one chooses to utilize alternative treatment for depression or go the route of an alternative clinic for opiate addiction and prefers to not use a flood dose, microdosing is becoming more popular and is being supported by research in terms of efficacy.  Protocol for microdosing is that the client would stay at our Medical B&B for one week.  We would do intensive daily therapy and therapeutic related activities.  You would be monitored by an MD under light supervision for the week of your stay.  (Microdosing on ibogaine is not potentially dangerous for the heart or liver in the same way that a flood dose of ibogaine may be if the person’s organs are not efficiently functioning).  After one week of intensive therapy and microdosing on ibogaine, the patient returns home with a 2 week supply of daily “boosters” or ibogaine plant medicine capsules.

From a psychological and medical perspective, it is really up to the client, whether to choose a flood dose of ibogaine in order to eliminate opiate and heroin withdrawals or to go the micro-dosing route.  From my experience and from what I have observed, from both a psychological and medical perspective, a flood dose of ibogaine gives a powerful punch to addiction and depression.

Lily J. Kotila, B.A., M.A.T., M.A., PhD(c)
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Teacher & Biologist