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Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike, Iboganautics is the podcast committed to discovering everything there is to know about "Tabernanthe iboga," or simply called iboga, a naturally occurring psychedelic plant from Gabon in western Central Africa. While other podcasters and content producers mainly focus on the addiction interruption properties of ibogaine, the main acting alkaloid in iboga, there is so much more to discuss, so much more one could and should know for a richer appreciation of the experience. For this reason, I invite members of the iboga community and other experts on the podcast to speak not just about addiction but about alternative topics pertaining to iboga-the-plant as well as the subjective experiences elicited by iboga. After several transformative personal experiences in addition to my own academic research, I speak with people that have something educational and interesting to say about this substance/experience, directly or indirectly related; for example, from scholars in neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and botany to experienced staff at retreat centers, artists, lay experts, and so on. While there’s much good information about iboga across multiple media, I believe there’s more to discover by conversing with said experts. For more information, visit https://amhouot.com/iboganautics/

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2.6_The Root of Vomiting_Kenneth L. Koch

August 28, 2020 • A.M.

Dr. Kenneth L. Koch is a practicing physician, professor of gastroenterology at Wake Forest University, and professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He’s been on numerous institutional, divisional, and national committees and boards, and has authored hundreds of papers and book chapters during his career. His latest book is called, Nausea and Vomiting: Diagnosis and Treatment, which he co-edited and co-authored. Considering iboga is commonly thought of and experienced as purgative, I thought it imperative to know what happens to our bodies when we vomit in general, but more importantly, while during iboga experiences. Topics of our discussion include: what happens to the body when one eats wood; how the notion of disgust from taste and smell can cause nausea which can lead to vomiting; the gut as a primitive and protective warning system; how the body chooses from which end (e.g. mouth or anus) to expel noxious foreign agents; iboga is commonly referred to as a medicine, so how does the body know whether something is a medicine or a toxin; “optokinetic nystagmus” phenomenon and how psychedelics likely produce states similar to motion sickness, which lead to vomiting. Also, visit my Podcast Supplements article regarding afterthoughts of Kenneth and I's conversation (https://amhouot.com/65-ep2-6_the-root-of-vomiting_kenneth-l-koch/).

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