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Dr. Keith Ablow discusses the uses of the drug "Special K" as a treatment for depression.
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Welcome back to on the -- and foxnews.com.
Live joined now by doctor Keith -- -- Not -- the Fox News medical eighteen you know him well of course that doctor good to see you.
It gives you true but don't do this so I didn't we're reading your piece foxnews.com.
Backed.
Which is -- pretty passionate argument.
For this -- drug noticed -- mean which anybody who wanders around on the streets in dodgy places might -- special K.
Being used as a treatment for depression.
Tell us about it.
Totally amazing numbers and -- even more.
About inside oriented psychotherapy right I think that's the gold standard.
But there are folks for whom medicine that is necessary to get out of depression and there are people for whom the traditional ones don't -- so they've taken -- I'm and they can't seem to get over their symptoms.
Can it mean when it was deliberate -- -- -- -- hill London club -- -- the people who abuse but an infusion IV infusion.
Remarkable.
Results in relieving depression people say that there -- -- go down 7580%.
Sometimes the very first time he received the IV infusion for 45 minutes and it's possible that the reason for this is because.
Actual new connections are being forged between ourselves and the newest research should -- did.
Good solution to the candidate.
Given -- -- perhaps four times and maybe just four times can cause nerve cells to actually create more this.
Passes those little places where they communicate with one another then were there before and that's the remarkable thing.
Get a medicine could Alter the architecture.
Of the brain and a favorable way so it's literally we re wiring to sort of nerve cells in the brain.
It's literally causing more -- -- -- -- so when nerve cells communicate with each -- through the end of one and the beginning of another -- will also.
Right so why would -- the -- within herself.
Literally more of those conform and reach out to the next herself -- this quickly in parts of the -- that have to do with emotion.
Feelings and behavior.
So the theory would be well median depressed people.
That was the areas are down -- it did not functioning appropriately and not functioning well.
Again not attributable street drug -- -- the oral form that you -- but aside and form.
Seems to really establish or even make more of those connections to increased.
An -- transmission and really good people of depression and that's -- at my own products.
While fascinating all right LTT tableau we got to cut it -- -- -- -- I don't know revving up and you gotta keep Laura -- waiting -- OK thank you very much.
