Biohacking Trauma With Functional Medicine - with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur, and Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
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"I knew it was killing me, but I also believed that the monster I was drowning would overtake me if I stopped. I tried various ways of controlling it, always failing eventually. My fight against drugs and alcohol was all-consuming and exhausting. In moments of exasperation, I cut my wrists and prayed for the courage to cut deep enough to let all the pain out. Luckily, I could never drive the knife that deep."
That's a passage I found chillingly eloquent from a chapter that Dr. Aleksandra Gajer contributed to the book Triumphs of Transformation. In it, she lays bare her struggles with vice and her long personal and professional path through traditional medicine to reclaiming agency, health, and happiness by eight foundational lifestyle pillars, which we'll get into in this wide-ranging discussion of the science of health and the art of transformation...
Mentioned in this interview
Trauma resolution
I lost a child - Our story of recovery with EMDR/Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Methylene Blue - A fascinating and potentially world-changing effect is in helping the user overcome the fear, trauma, and PTSD of the past...
My essay: The Myth of Sex Addiction
Biohacks
Whole Genome Sequencing - If you're an MTHFRer, don't be so stoic about stress!
Semax and Selank - Neuroplasticity-promoting peptides
Stack these with Phenylpiracetam, then meditate to feel like "a young Jedi dabbling with the dark side of the force for the first time"
Epigenetic mindset transformation meditation - from You Are The Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Weight loss
GLP1s - Like Ozempic, Wegovy's Semaglutide, or Manjuaro
Retatrutide - "the data is very promising!"
Books
Triumphs of Transformation: Inspiring Stories of Resilience and Life Change
Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time by Dr. John Jaquish - instead use an X3 bar OR blood flow restriction style bands for variable resistance training
The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief
Sexaholics Anonymous White Book
The Gajer Practice
Brings "The Science of Health, The Art of Transformation" to their devotion to their patients in northern Virginia, the Washington, D.C. area, and nationwide via telemedicine.
Clearly, Dr. Gajer & Co are on the cutting edge of functional medicine and applied longevity science. So if DIYing your own Biohacking is not getting you the health transformation you need - sometimes even the best Biohacker needs a doctor - schedule a free call with them...
Book Consultation at The Gajer Practice
On social media
The Gajer Practice on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
Dr. Aleksandra Gajer on LinkedIN
Need a little more inspiration to break out of the pain and pattern of the past? Here's a catchy song about trauma resolution...
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