About this episode

In this episode, Robert Lufkin MD interviews Neil Markey about the impact of psychedelics on mental health, particularly for combat veterans.

What if the same symptoms we see in combat veterans — the broken sleep, the irritability, the brain fog — were already quietly spreading through the healthiest, highest-performing people you know? In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Neil Markey — a former US Army Special Operations captain from the 75th Ranger Regiment turned McKinsey consultant, now the co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats and a Harvard Chan School student researching psychedelic-a...

People in this episode

Host: Robert Lufkin MD

Guest: Neil Markey

Topics covered

• psychedelics
• mental health
• veterans
• combat stress
• research
• wellness

Keywords

• psychedelics
• mental health
• veterans
• Army Ranger
• Beckley Retreats
• Harvard Chan School
• brain fog
• irritability
• combat stress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beckley Retreats, Harvard Chan School

Places: US

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