{"id":206968,"date":"2025-02-21T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/biohacker-takes-ketamine-and-tracks-his-brain-with-surprising-results"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:22:17","slug":"biohacker-takes-ketamine-and-tracks-his-brain-with-surprising-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/biohacker-takes-ketamine-and-tracks-his-brain-with-surprising-results","title":{"rendered":"Biohacker Takes Ketamine and Tracks His Brain With Surprising Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Johnson took ketamine and monitored his brain activity for 15 days, recording the experience and sharing about it on X.<\/p>\n

Johnson is a 47-year-old longevity-obsessed entrepreneur, known for sharing biohacking content across his social media channels. His most recent health experiment involved treatment with the popularized horse tranquilizer.<\/p>\n

As he shared in a tweet, he wanted to test what happens to the brain before, during, and after ketamine treatment.<\/p>\n

Ketamine has gained popularity as a fast-acting treatment for depression, PTSD, and chronic pain. Unlike traditional antidepressants, it works quickly by targeting the brain\u2019s glutamate system to restore neural connections.<\/p>\n

To monitor his brain activity, Johnson used his self-invented Kernel Flow\u2014a form of non-invasive brain interface technology worn on the head.<\/p>\n

S brain activity followed fixed, predictable patterns. After, he found his once-rigid thinking to be more flexible, varied, and open to new beliefs or ways of thinking. + Johnson likened his brain on ketamine to a global air traffic network, where each airport\u2014or brain region\u2014has consistent flight routes and traffic volumes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter ketamine, my brain\u2019s activity patterns were completely scrambled. Instead of predictable routes between major hubs, traffic was rerouted to smaller, less-used airports across the U.S., Europe, and Asia,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n

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Bryan Johnson took ketamine and monitored his brain activity for 15 days, recording the experience and sharing about it on X. Johnson is a 47-year-old longevity-obsessed entrepreneur, known for sharing biohacking content across his social media channels. His most recent health experiment involved treatment with the popularized horse tranquilizer. As he shared in a tweet, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}