Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library Book 11)

by Mark Hyman

2. Try dynamic neural retraining, an online program that can help heal the chronic stress and trauma we all experience that keeps us in a state of fight, flight, or freeze. It targets brain function to regulate a maladapted stress response and teaches you how to rewire the limbic system (emotional center of the brain) and change the structure and function of your brain. This allows your body to move from a state of survival to a state of growth and repair, where true healing can take place (see Dynamic Neural Retraining System, retrainingthebrain.com). 3. Try ketamine therapy for anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Ketamine is an anesthetic drug that is now approved for treatment of resistant depression.7 The FDA approved a nasal spray called Spravato. It is a dissociative drug that allows you to see things from a different perspective. It also has direct effects on healing brain function and structure, increasing neuroplasticity. Ketamine clinics are now legal and can be found in nearly every major city. 4. Try a stellate ganglion block for anxiety, trauma, and PTSD.8 Since the 1940s, stellate ganglion blocks have been performed to treat pain conditions driven by the sympathetic or stress response in the nervous system. The procedure involves injecting local anesthetic in and around the stellate ganglion, a bundle of nerves in the sympathetic nervous system (located at the base of the neck) to temporarily block its function. Hospitals and clini...