Ibogaine Uncovered

More than 15 years ago, Talia Eisenberg took ibogaine in Mexico with no doctors and no preparation. In that journey, her late grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, told her to stop poisoning herself. She also saw a medically advanced healing center. Years later it was the first property a realtor showed her when she set out to open an ibogaine center in Cancun: Beond.

In this Ibogaine 101 episode, Beond producer Eamon Armstrong interviews Ibogaine Uncovered host Talia Eisenberg. The conversation covers the April executive order on psychedelic research, what ibogaine is and where it comes from, and the Stanford study of special operations veterans. They also explore how ibogaine acts on the brain, ethical sourcing, cardiac risks, who should not take ibogaine, what to ask when vetting a clinic, what a stay at Beond looks like from preparation through flood and fractional doses, and why integration is a lifelong process.

Talia Eisenberg is the cofounder of Beond and the host of Ibogaine Uncovered. She also founded the Ibogaine Research Institute, a San Francisco nonprofit that raises funds and awareness for ibogaine as a treatment for opioid addiction.

Timestamps

• (01:00) What the executive order does and does not change
• (05:30) OxyContin, years of relapse, and Talia's first journey
• (14:30) From Bwiti rites of passage to Howard Lotsof and the Stanford veterans study
• (18:00) Fresh powder: how ibogaine works in the brain
• (22:00) Sourcing outside Gabon
• (27:00) Why people have died, who gets screened out, and how to vet a clinic
• (34:30) Inside a Beond stay
• (46:30) Integration, and a message to parents of a child who is using

Links

• Talia Eisenberg on Instagram
• Ibogaine Uncovered: Dalibor Sames, When the Researcher Finally Takes the Medicine
• Indication-stratified mortality risk of ibogaine treatment under contemporary safety protocols (Arns, Shinozuka & Barsuglia, 2026)

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As a girl in Mexico City, Jeannette Plowes sensed things before they happened. Her mother decided to take her to a curandera instead of a psychiatrist. Years later, as a coach at Beond, she sat with ibogaine. She found that the medicine didn't give her more tools to coach, but changed the person holding them.

On the show Talia and Jeannette talk about the inner work behind holding space. The conversation covers growing up sensitive,, how her own ibogaine journey reshaped the way she coaches, why a somatic experience calls for a somatic integration, and what birth work taught her about ibogaine as a rite of passage. She also walks through how she prepares guests, what people need in the first 48 hours, how to work with fear and control rather than fight them, and why integration happens best in community.

Jeannette Plowes is an on-site coach and therapist at Beond, where she has worked with guests for several years. Born in Mexico City, she came to plant medicine through ayahuasca after a spiritual emergency, then trained extensively with Indigenous wisdom keepers, including Mazatec and Wixárika elders, and certified as a transpersonal therapist. She has also worked as a doula, and first heard of iboga from the shaman who led her first ayahuasca ceremony, long before ibogaine became her work.

Timestamps:

• (01:00) A sensitive child in Mexico City, and the curandera who closed her channels
• (06:00) The need to be needed, and the grief after her father's death
• (13:00) Her first ibogaine journey, and the voice that stopped her projecting
• (22:00) A somatic journey, buried sexual shame, and integration through reggaeton
• (28:00) Why ibogaine changed the coach, not her tools
• (33:00) Telling God to try IFS, and a sunset reunion with her father
• (40:00) Inside the preparation call: intentions, cleaning the wound, and dissolving the character
• (52:00) The first 48 hours, going home, and why integration happens in community

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Ibogaine Uncovered is an educational podcast. Nothing shared in this episode constitutes medical advice. Always consult a qualified medical professional before making any treatment decisions.

Ibogaine is "promiscuous" because it binds to so many receptor sites at once. Today's guest, Dr. Rod Paulsen, says there's nothing else like it in medicine. Screening for a molecule that complex is its own science, and his job.

On the show, Talia Eisenberg and Dr. Paulsen discuss psychiatric evaluation and what makes someone a strong candidate for ibogaine treatment. They review the medication and supplement protocols that have to be in place first, the pharmacology of tapering, the support and aftercare he wants lined up before anyone arrives, and what the receptor science and Beond's own research tell him about who does well.

Dr. Rod Paulsen is Beond's director of psychiatry and psychopharmacology and has been with the clinic since it opened in 2021. He majored in neuroscience at NYU, where he worked as a research assistant on the NYU psilocybin project, then completed a master's in biomedical sciences and medical school at LSU in New Orleans, studying the neurobiology of opioid withdrawal and serving as a night sitter on MAPS' MDMA-assisted psychotherapy trial for PTSD. He is currently completing an addiction psychiatry fellowship.

Timestampes

• (02:00) From philosophy to neuroscience, and why ibogaine is the psychedelic that needs a physician
• (09:00) Inside the psychiatric intake, and what makes someone a strong candidate
• (14:00) Ibogaine as an SSRI, and why that shapes who can safely come off medication
• (18:00) The therapy, psychiatry, and aftercare he wants in place before anyone arrives
• (21:00) Supplements, the biohacking crowd, and treating dosing like surgery
• (24:00) Taper pharmacology: the hyperbolic strategy, saffron extract, and CYP2D6
• (28:00) What Beond's research found about visions and outcomes
• (51:00) Where approval, insurance, and the science go from here

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Four years ago this week, Courtney Barnes walked into Beond as one of the country's leading psychedelic policy attorneys.

Talia Eisenberg and Courtney Barnes discuss the part of the ibogaine story that rarely gets told: everything that happens after. The conversation covers preparation and what she wishes she had done differently, the long work of integration, what she had to give up, and where ibogaine policy is heading in the United States.

Courtney Barnes is a partner at Feldman Legal Advisors and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, licensed in California, Colorado, and Texas. She was a lead drafter of Denver's psilocybin decriminalization initiative and serves as general counsel to veteran focused psychedelic organizations including Heroic Hearts Project. She came to Beond in 2022 while researching ibogaine for a nonprofit client.

Timestamps

• (02:00) Why an attorney working on ibogaine policy decided to sit with it herself
• (06:00) Heartbreak in LA, two oracle cards, and the question she carried into the room
• (09:00) Arriving at Beond underprepared, and coming off fourteen years of Vyvanse
• (12:00) Meeting her inner child and the memories she had completely repressed
• (17:00) The difficult first year, and the support system she wishes she had built first
• (22:00) Two months later, when her inner voice said no more to Vyvanse
• (29:00) Four years out: rebuilt relationships with her mother and sister
• (35:00) What she would tell someone who feels called but afraid of what they might find

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A new mother walks through the one-way door of postpartum and loses the thread of who she was. She came to Beond to find her way back.

Melissa Pruett joins host Talia Eisenberg to share a story of becoming rather than being broken. One year postpartum, she opens up about the moment her body couldn't produce milk and the perfectionism it exposed, the postpartum depression she was slow to admit, and the "surrender moment" that led her to ibogaine. She describes a flood dose with no visuals, just an intimate question-and-answer with her "higher mind" that answered the fifty questions she'd written down and delivered one core truth: just how enough she already is. She shares the song "Truth Teller" that poured out of her between journeys and plays it live, the second journey's confronting blind spots, a ten-year dream that resurfaced, and the honest, unglamorous reality of integration back home.

Melissa Pruett is a mother and entrepreneur who founded her beauty and wellness practice in Arizona more than twelve years ago. She is now expanding into a holistic space in Austin built around helping women uncover their own natural essence. She lives with her partner Andrew and their son Ever.

Find her on Instagram at @melissapruett24.

Timestamps

• (01:00) Who Melissa is and why she came to Beond
• (02:00) Postpartum and the milk that wouldn't come
• (06:00) A surrender prayer and the sign at a birthday dinner
• (15:00) Arriving at Beond and the power of peer community
• (20:00) The flood dose and "just how enough you are"
• (35:00) "Truth Teller," the song that poured out
• (52:00) A ten-year dream resurfaces
• (59:00) Integration, grace, and advice for new moms

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Hilda Sánchez has been quietly doing some of the most important work at Beond since she joined the team. She came from traditional hospital medicine, where the job is to intervene, stabilize, and move to the next patient, then she walked into a psychedelic treatment center and everything she knew about nursing got turned inside out.

Today, Talia and Hilda talk about what it actually looks like to keep someone safe during an ibogaine treatment. From the moment a guest is medically approved through arrival, pre-treatment assessment, the treatment itself, and every hour of their stay after, safety is the thread running through all of it. Hilda walks through the certifications nurses complete, the cardiac monitoring protocols, trauma-informed consent forms, and the difference between flood and fractional dosing. She also talks about how protocols have evolved over several thousand treatments and the guests who shaped her along the way. This is a conversation about what it means to grow as a practitioner inside a team that grows together.

Hilda Sánchez is a lead nurse at Beond Ibogaine Treatment Center in Mexico. She trained as a nurse in Puebla and worked emergency and operating rooms across Tulum, Nayarit, and Puebla before joining Beond three years ago. She has supported thousands of ibogaine treatments and helped shape the clinical and trauma-informed protocols the Beond team uses today.

• (2:00) Why Hilda became a nurse and what brought her to Beond
• (6:00) What shocked her: psychedelic nursing vs. hospital medicine
• (12:00) Nurse training: ACLS, trip sitting, and cardiac monitoring
• (16:00) Trauma-informed intake: consent forms and customization
• (22:00) Flood dosing vs. fractional dosing
• (33:00) Treatment-day protocols: EKG, UDT, and the treatment room
• (43:00) Code blue training and emergency readiness
• (52:00) Personal breakthrough and advice for those on the fence

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Parkinson's disease has no cure, but ibogaine may be quietly rewriting what's possible for the 11 million people living with it.

Today on Ibogaine Uncovered, Talia Eisenberg talks with Tobias Erny, a researcher and practitioner with nearly two decades of experience working with iboga, about the science, the stories, and the honest limits of this emerging therapy. They cover the case of Patient D, whose motor function transformed after ibogaine treatment; the published case report documenting 50%+ improvements across motor, mood, and quality-of-life measures; the pharmacology behind why it might work; low-dose protocols; who responds and who doesn't; complementary lifestyle support; and how to pursue this path safely and responsibly.

Tobias Erny is trained in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and works at the intersection of neuroscience, lived clinical experience, and psychedelic science. He is a lead author on one of the first published case reports exploring ibogaine for Parkinson's disease, and is developing a placebo-controlled clinical trial with the University of Zurich.

Timestamps

• (04:00) What Parkinson's disease actually is: dopamine loss, stages, and progression
• (07:00) Environmental toxins and elevated Parkinson's risk in farming and golf course communities
• (10:00) The pharmacology of iboga: GDNF, dopamine transporter chaperoning, and antidepressant effects
• (16:00) The published case study: 80 days, five validated instruments, 50%+ improvements
• (23:00) Who responds and who doesn't, and plans for a clinical trial in Zurich
• (27:00) Complementary support: movement, nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle
• (31:00) Safety, sourcing risks, medical screening, and setting honest expectations

Case Report:  https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2025.00478 

Ibogaine for Parkinson's Disease - Tobias Erny - Psychedelics as Medicine Iceland 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvSV8IQsKk

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Women veterans face a war that never makes the headlines, one fought inside the ranks against sexual assault, toxic leadership, and a system that demands silence. Lorna Sturchio served six years in the U.S. Navy, survived two deployments, and came home to battle invisible wounds that no amount of medication could reach.

In this episode, host Talia Eisenberg and Lorna discuss the largely hidden experience of women serving in the military. They cover how the VA system often fails veterans with complex trauma, what the path into plant medicine can look like, and what ibogaine treatment at Beond made possible. Lorna also speaks to her work supporting other women veterans and the creation of a dedicated healing program built specifically for them.

Lorna Sturchio is a U.S. Navy veteran who served six years, including two deployments with the Naval Coastal Warfare unit. After her own ibogaine healing journey at Beond, she became a coach and facilitator and helped design Beond's women veteran service program — the first all-female cohort of its kind — where she now supports other women veterans in reclaiming their voice, their nervous systems, and their lives.

Timestamps:

• (2:00) Double standards, toxic culture, and the cost of speaking up
• (6:00) Sexual assault in the military, silence, fear, and the 1-in-4 reality
• (9:00) TBI, medevac, opioid dependency, and a system that cut her off
• (17:00) VA treatment failures and a 2018 suicide attempt that changed everything
• (20:00) First steps into plant medicine: ayahuasca, psilocybin, and learning set and setting
• (23:00) Ibogaine at Beond: processing trauma, healing TBI, reclaiming sovereignty
• (29:00) Building Beond's first women veteran cohort

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A fire alarm rang in Claire Weber's nervous system at age two and never turned off, until ibogaine finally silenced it, forty years later. This is a conversation about what happens when your first memory is the worst thing that ever happened to you, and what it takes to come back from that.

In this episode, Talia Eisenberg sits down with emotional release coach and hands-on healer Claire Weber to explore the territory of pre-verbal trauma. Claire shares how witnessing her mother's death just before her third birthday encoded a lifetime of shock, hyper vigilance, and the core belief that she was fundamentally alone. She traces her decades-long search for healing through 12-step recovery, neurofeedback and its role in repairing the brain's "mother circuit." Claire shares the distinction between pre-verbal trauma and pre-verbal shock, the daily practice of "re-mothering" her inner child, and a post-treatment car accident that confirmed her nervous system had fundamentally changed. Claire also shares her life vision to open a healing estate called Mothered, a place devoted to helping others rebuild the internal mother they never had.

Claire Weber is an emotional release coach and hands-on healer devoted to grief work, somatic healing, and nervous system repair. She works with clients to release trauma held in the body and is developing Mothered, a residential healing estate designed to help people encounter and rebuild their internal mother.

She can be found on Instagram at @bonjourclairefontaine.

Timestamps

• (00:00) Introduction to Claire's story and the landscape of pre-verbal trauma
• (03:00) Claire's first memory: witnessing her mother drown at age two
• (06:30) Childhood coping — food as a substitute for the lost mother
• (11:00) The turning point: 12-step recovery, grief rituals, and the long search for healing
• (15:00) Neurofeedback and repairing the "mother circuit" in the brain
• (20:00) Claire's ibogaine vision — reliving the drowning through a firefighter's eyes
• (39:00) The car accident that proved her nervous system had changed
• (43:00) Re-mothering, the dreamscape practice, and Claire's vision for Mothered

For Carolina Reese, resilience started as survival. In this episode of Ibogaine Uncovered, host Talia Eisenberg speaks with Reese about grief, caregiving, and what happened when years of holding everything together finally reached a breaking point.

Reese shares how childhood abuse, immigration, and early loss shaped a lifelong pattern of hypervigilance and responsibility. As an adult she cared for a husband dying of cancer, later supported a combat veteran partner with severe PTSD, and pushed through years of stress until her body began shutting down. She describes how her experience at Beond helped her release trauma stored in the body, reconnect with fragmented parts of herself, and shift from self abandoning caregiving toward healthier service and coaching.

Carolina Reese is a coach at Beond who supports clients preparing for and integrating ibogaine treatment. She first came to Beond as a guest in 2024 after years of caregiving and personal loss, including the death of her first husband and supporting a combat veteran with PTSD. Her work now focuses on helping others process grief, trauma, and major life transitions while maintaining boundaries and self care.

• (00:00) Introduction, grief and resilience
• (01:40) Childhood abuse, immigration, and learning hypervigilance
• (04:10) Caregiving and losing her first husband to cancer
• (06:30) Supporting a combat veteran with PTSD
• (09:40) Stress illness and hitting physical collapse
• (12:10) Discovering ibogaine and coming to Beond
• (15:00) Her ibogaine journey and reconnecting with lost parts of herself
• (20:00) Integration, boundaries, and shifting from caregiver to coach