A retired Navy SEAL who killed people for a living says ibogaine did in 5 days what a decade of therapy couldn't — and he went to Mexico planning not to come back.
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A retired Navy SEAL who killed people for a living says ibogaine did in 5 days what a decade of therapy couldn't — and he went to Mexico planning not to come back.
TL;DR
Retired Navy SEAL and DEVGRU operator DJ Shipley tells Chris Williamson what no one warned him about: leaving special operations is harder than anything he did inside it [1] — DJ Shipley "Leaving the military is harder than any mission. You spend your entire adult life building a skill set no civilian wants, then discover ove…" . From 30-minute recall schedules and the adrenaline of tier-1 raids, to a decade of suicidal ideation, 60 daily pills, being electrocuted on Father's Day [2] — DJ Shipley "Elite operators are simultaneously the most optimized humans on earth and the most physically destroyed. Shoulders blown out, TBIs, 2 hours…" 1:51:50 , and an almost-fatal suicide attempt on a Virginia Beach beach [3] — DJ Shipley "While DJ Shipley was in Mexico doing ibogaine, his wife hacked his phone and found every affair. She boxed every item he owned, hired a law…" 2:33:20 , Shipley lays bare the hidden cost of elite military service. His most important takeaway: ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT did in 5 days what years of therapy couldn't [4] — DJ Shipley "DJ Shipley was suited up, on the ramp, ready to jump on a major operation during Trump's first term. The president canceled it with a phone…" 46:25 .
DJ Shipley, retired Navy SEAL and former DEVGRU operator, opens up about the brutal reality of transitioning out of elite military service, the psychological toll of hyper-vigilance, his suicide attempt, and how ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT saved his life and marriage.
DJ Shipley explains why leaving the military was harder than any mission: your identity disappears overnight and the promised civilian opportunities don't exist.
Most operators either contract (same job, more money) or try civilian careers and return within months. The adrenaline of risk is nearly impossible to replace.
The only way to make dangerous activities safer is to do them far more than anyone else. Tier 1 operators must sign away the right to any outside pursuits for their first 4–5 years. [1] — DJ Shipley "The most dangerous person in skydiving is someone with 180 jumps who thinks they're elite. The safest person has 4,000. Buying down risk is…" 04:08
DJ explains the tier system, what 30-minute recall feels like, and why living inside a fully resourced compound hunting a target is the greatest thing in military life. [1] — DJ Shipley "On 30-minute recall, you're watching the news, hunting a target on your wall, and waiting for a single text that makes your whole life have…" 10:21
Parallels between Steph Curry, Michael Phelps, and Tier 1 operators: discipline, routine, and unbroken repetition separate elite performers from everyone else.
Chris reads a sponsor segment for LMNT electrolyte drink mix.
Living on 30-minute alert creates panic when disconnected from communication. The psychological cost of being always-on is illustrated with phone anxiety and sleeplessness.
The flight to an operation — the whine of engines, the thousand-yard stares, mental rehearsal of every detail — is described as a form of meditation that creates feelings of omnipotence.
Western forces accept severe tactical disadvantage to minimize civilian casualties. Adversaries exploit those rules by staging weapons and gaming detention systems. [1] — DJ Shipley "Western forces go to extraordinary lengths not to kill civilians, putting themselves at severe tactical disadvantage. Meanwhile the enemy w…" 29:22
Chris reads a sponsor segment for Timeline/Mitopure mitochondrial supplement.
DJ discusses how Australian and UK special operators like Ben Roberts-Smith and a 22 SAS soldier face criminal charges that he believes mischaracterize legitimate combat actions.
DJ argues that the Five Eyes could end any conventional conflict in six months if allowed to fight without constraints, and that prolonged wars generate enormous profits for defense contractors.
DJ hypothetically argues for decisive nuclear deterrence or special operations decapitation as the only ways to end a nuclear-capable adversary conflict quickly.
DJ says Trump avoided more conflicts than any president he served under, citing a last-minute cancellation of a major op, and discusses the calculus of unpredictable leadership as deterrence.
Special operations is less Expendables, more professional sports team — relaxed grooming standards, team-room philosophers, and near-universal obsession with craft.
Chris reads a sponsor segment for Gymshark training apparel.
A chart showing IQ inversely correlates with violent behavior illustrates why finding someone who enjoys books AND bar fights — essential for Tier 1 work — is extremely rare.
DJ was in the same DEVGRU squadron but too junior to be selected. He describes watching teammates buy $1,000 sunglasses before going, not knowing where they were headed, then celebrating when Obama made the announcement. [1] — DJ Shipley "DJ Shipley was in the same squadron as the operators who killed Osama bin Laden. He wasn't chosen — too junior. They told his rotation it w…" 1:01:33
DJ reacts with fury to theories that the Extortion 17 shoot-down was an inside job, noting the harm these narratives cause to the dead operators' families and children.
Chris reads a sponsor segment for Whoop 5.0 health wearable.
Chris plays a clip of an admiral's speech about American military deterrence; DJ reacts with pride and discusses why Britain's military isn't valued the same way culturally.
Elite operators adjust every aspect of life — sleep schedules, diet, social circle — while silently accumulating catastrophic injuries, TBIs, sleep debt, and pharmaceutical dependency.
Overseas deployments mean no sunlight for months, hard-boiled eggs three times daily, inverted sleep cycles, and fingernails falling out from vitamin D deprivation.
When operators return home after 300 days away they feel like strangers. The mismatch between deployment mode and family life creates resentment, emotional distance, and a spiral back to work. [1] — DJ Shipley "The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because operators keep getting remarried. His first troop chief was on his fifth. Most guys…" 1:38:00
Three weeks before retirement, DJ is severely electrocuted doing fracture art, shatters his collarbone, faces potential full-body muscle removal surgery, and transitions gimped-up with double arm slings. [1] — DJ Shipley "Three weeks before retirement, DJ Shipley grabbed live electrical cables in his backyard while his kids watched from the window. The electr…" 1:36:05
A new doctor discovers DJ is on four medications that together cause stroke and death; he's sent to what he's told is a medical detox but is actually a psychiatric ward at Walter Reed.
Post-retirement, with no mission, no group, no routine, DJ begins cheating, spiraling into depression, and coming to terms with having no transferable skills and no sense of self.
DJ discloses he wanted to kill himself every single day from 2013 to 2020–2021, both in and out of service, and describes the gym routine as the only thing that kept overriding it. [1] — DJ Shipley "I wanted to kill myself from probably 2013 up until 2020, 2021. Every day, every day, all day. And I didn't have a reason for it." 2:04:57
DJ's wife finds Marcus and Amber Capone's ibogaine documentary. DJ agrees to go largely to keep the peace, carrying a photo standing on a cliff's edge 80 feet above jagged rocks.
Ibogaine surfaces all buried memory, allows perspective-shifting into others' points of view, builds forced empathy, lasts 16 hours, and eliminates every addiction upon waking. [1] — DJ Shipley "Ibogaine opens every drawer in your memory simultaneously and makes you relive past experiences from all perspectives — including your own …" 2:18:52
Coming home to 30 boxes of his belongings and divorce papers, DJ drives to a private beach with a pistol, chooses a song, and is stopped by his wife's tracking app at the last moment. [1] — DJ Shipley "DJ Shipley drove to that beach in Virginia Beach with a gun, sat in his truck, put on a song, and told himself that when it ended, he would…" 2:23:48
After 5 failed 5-MeO rounds of emotional resistance, DJ takes the sixth with the intention to die. The ego dies instead, and he wakes up desperate to get home. [1] — DJ Shipley "After 5 rounds of 5-MeO-DMT that weren't working because he was still fighting it, DJ Shipley took the sixth hit with the explicit intentio…" 2:28:00
His wife discovered all his affairs while he was in Mexico. They sit together, DJ confesses everything, blocks 150 contacts, signs a postnup, and earns one day at a time. Their marriage is now extraordinary.
DJ's ibogaine sessions never surfaced military trauma — only childhood wounds and identity loss from leaving. He argues most veteran suffering is heartbreak, not PTSD. [1] — DJ Shipley "Ibogaine never once surfaced military trauma for DJ Shipley — not a single combat memory. All of his trauma came from childhood and from lo…" 2:40:36
DJ recommends Ambio Life Sciences and Veteran Solutions for ibogaine treatment, stresses the importance of pre-work and post-integration, and warns against taking a slot casually.
DJ describes speaking at Moody Air Force Base where no hands went up asking about mental health struggles, and why firefighters and police need the same open-dialogue breakthrough. [1] — DJ Shipley "When I was on my island alone, when I was in that guest room with that trash bag and that pistol about to do that thing, no one came for me…" 2:44:12
Chris and DJ wrap up; DJ directs listeners to GBRs Group on Instagram and Chris plugs the Modern Wisdom Reading List at chriswillx.com/books.
Chapter 1 · 00:00
DJ Shipley explains why leaving the military was harder than any mission: your identity disappears overnight and the promised civilian opportunities don't exist.
Leaving the military is harder than any mission. You spend your entire adult life building a skill set no civilian wants, then discover overnight that the identity, brotherhood, and purpose that defined you are gone — and nobody warned you it would feel like this.
Chapter 2 · 02:05
Most operators either contract (same job, more money) or try civilian careers and return within months. The adrenaline of risk is nearly impossible to replace.
The most dangerous person in skydiving is someone with 180 jumps who thinks they're elite. The safest person has 4,000. Buying down risk isn't about talent — it's about volume. This is why Tier 1 units demand operators sign away the right to pursue anything outside the craft for their first 4–5 years.
Chapter 3 · 04:23
The only way to make dangerous activities safer is to do them far more than anyone else. Tier 1 operators must sign away the right to any outside pursuits for their first 4–5 years. [1] — DJ Shipley "The most dangerous person in skydiving is someone with 180 jumps who thinks they're elite. The safest person has 4,000. Buying down risk is…" 04:08
DJ Shipley has over 4,000 skydives, illustrating how elite operators deliberately stack repetitions to buy down risk.
Chapter 4 · 09:00
DJ explains the tier system, what 30-minute recall feels like, and why living inside a fully resourced compound hunting a target is the greatest thing in military life. [1] — DJ Shipley "On 30-minute recall, you're watching the news, hunting a target on your wall, and waiting for a single text that makes your whole life have…" 10:21
On 30-minute recall, you're watching the news, hunting a target on your wall, and waiting for a single text that makes your whole life have meaning. That is the greatest thing you can do in the military — and the hardest thing to live without.
Tier 1 operators spent significant blocks of each year on a 30-minute recall schedule — if a text went off, they had to be on a plane within half an hour.
Chapter 5 · 14:40
Parallels between Steph Curry, Michael Phelps, and Tier 1 operators: discipline, routine, and unbroken repetition separate elite performers from everyone else.
Claims made here
Logging 10,000 hours of practice at 8 hours per day takes approximately 4 years.
DJ Shipley calculates that logging 10,000 hours at 8 hours a day takes roughly 4 years, and advises young people to front-load skill acquisition in those first 4 years.
DJ Shipley joined the Navy in 2002 and retired in August 2019, spending 9 of those years in a Tier 1 unit on near-constant 30-minute recall alert.
Chapter 8 · 24:10
The flight to an operation — the whine of engines, the thousand-yard stares, mental rehearsal of every detail — is described as a form of meditation that creates feelings of omnipotence.
Claims made here
South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world, and a key contributing factor is that K-pop stars are contractually required to remain unpartnered and childless, providing a dominant cultural model.
Chapter 9 · 29:20
Western forces accept severe tactical disadvantage to minimize civilian casualties. Adversaries exploit those rules by staging weapons and gaming detention systems. [1] — DJ Shipley "Western forces go to extraordinary lengths not to kill civilians, putting themselves at severe tactical disadvantage. Meanwhile the enemy w…" 29:22
Claims made here
War crimes by US and allied forces are now extremely rare compared to World War II and Vietnam because ubiquitous surveillance technology means any incident would be captured and prosecuted.
Every person shot in Iraq or Afghanistan results in a cash payout to the family by the US government, regardless of whether they were a combatant.
Western forces go to extraordinary lengths not to kill civilians, putting themselves at severe tactical disadvantage. Meanwhile the enemy weaponizes those rules — staging weapons, using children, knowing exactly how to game the detention system. You're playing chess; they're playing calvinball.
Chapter 11 · 38:05
DJ discusses how Australian and UK special operators like Ben Roberts-Smith and a 22 SAS soldier face criminal charges that he believes mischaracterize legitimate combat actions.
When the Marines cleared Fallujah, they went door to door and killed every man still willing to fight. That's what clearing a city means. People don't want to know that, but that's how wars end quickly — and why 20-year wars are a choice, not a necessity.
Chapter 13 · 44:20
DJ hypothetically argues for decisive nuclear deterrence or special operations decapitation as the only ways to end a nuclear-capable adversary conflict quickly.
DJ Shipley was suited up, on the ramp, ready to jump on a major operation during Trump's first term. The president canceled it with a phone call. Nobody knows what Trump says in those calls, but Shipley says he's avoided more conflicts than any commander-in-chief he served under.
Chapter 14 · 46:40
DJ says Trump avoided more conflicts than any president he served under, citing a last-minute cancellation of a major op, and discusses the calculus of unpredictable leadership as deterrence.
Chapter 15 · 50:00
Special operations is less Expendables, more professional sports team — relaxed grooming standards, team-room philosophers, and near-universal obsession with craft.
Chapter 17 · 54:10
A chart showing IQ inversely correlates with violent behavior illustrates why finding someone who enjoys books AND bar fights — essential for Tier 1 work — is extremely rare.
Chapter 18 · 59:20
DJ was in the same DEVGRU squadron but too junior to be selected. He describes watching teammates buy $1,000 sunglasses before going, not knowing where they were headed, then celebrating when Obama made the announcement. [1] — DJ Shipley "DJ Shipley was in the same squadron as the operators who killed Osama bin Laden. He wasn't chosen — too junior. They told his rotation it w…" 1:01:33
Claims made here
Extortion 17, shot down in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, killed all 31 people on board including 17 Navy SEALs, and was the single deadliest incident for Naval Special Warfare.
David Goggins and Jocko Willink together have put more people into military service over the last 10 years than anyone else in the last 50 years.
Extortion 17, a Chinook helicopter, was shot down in Afghanistan in August 2011 killing all 31 people on board, including a full SEAL troop.
DJ Shipley was in the same squadron as the operators who killed Osama bin Laden. He wasn't chosen — too junior. They told his rotation it was a 'dog and pony' training mission. Five days before the raid, the guys were buying $1,000 sunglasses because they thought they weren't coming home.
Chapter 21 · 1:10:28
Chris plays a clip of an admiral's speech about American military deterrence; DJ reacts with pride and discusses why Britain's military isn't valued the same way culturally.
Chapter 24 · 1:30:00
When operators return home after 300 days away they feel like strangers. The mismatch between deployment mode and family life creates resentment, emotional distance, and a spiral back to work. [1] — DJ Shipley "The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because operators keep getting remarried. His first troop chief was on his fifth. Most guys…" 1:38:00
At Walter Reed's medical detox facility, DJ Shipley spent 31 consecutive days strapped to a hospital bed while being washed out of the cocktail of medications he had been on for 9 years.
Chapter 25 · 1:36:05
Three weeks before retirement, DJ is severely electrocuted doing fracture art, shatters his collarbone, faces potential full-body muscle removal surgery, and transitions gimped-up with double arm slings. [1] — DJ Shipley "Three weeks before retirement, DJ Shipley grabbed live electrical cables in his backyard while his kids watched from the window. The electr…" 1:36:05
Claims made here
The divorce rate in the Navy SEAL teams exceeds 100% because many operators divorce and remarry multiple times throughout their career.
Three weeks before retirement, DJ Shipley grabbed live electrical cables in his backyard while his kids watched from the window. The electricity shattered his collarbone, blew exit wounds out of his palms and thighs, threw him across the yard — and doctors said every muscle in his body might liquefy within hours.
The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because operators keep getting remarried. His first troop chief was on his fifth. Most guys marry their high school sweetheart at 19, move her to a city with no support system, and disappear for 300 days a year. It's not cruelty — it's arithmetic.
The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because many operators get remarried and divorced multiple times over their career.
Three weeks before his retirement, DJ Shipley was electrocuted in his backyard while doing fracture art, shattering his collarbone and scapula and burning exit wounds into his hands, head, and thighs.
Chapter 26 · 1:49:10
A new doctor discovers DJ is on four medications that together cause stroke and death; he's sent to what he's told is a medical detox but is actually a psychiatric ward at Walter Reed.
Elite operators are simultaneously the most optimized humans on earth and the most physically destroyed. Shoulders blown out, TBIs, 2 hours of real sleep per night, and a growing pharmaceutical stack that makes it possible to keep going — until suddenly it doesn't.
Chapter 27 · 1:52:00
Post-retirement, with no mission, no group, no routine, DJ begins cheating, spiraling into depression, and coming to terms with having no transferable skills and no sense of self.
Claims made here
SEAL team operators are away from home a minimum of 270 days per year, sometimes as many as 350 days.
DJ Shipley experienced suicidal ideation every single day from approximately 2013 until 2020–2021, both while active duty and during transition.
Navy SEAL operators are away from home a minimum of 270 days per year, with some spending up to 350 days deployed or training.
DJ Shipley wanted to kill himself every day from approximately 2013 to 2020–2021, both during active service and through his transition out.
Chapter 29 · 2:09:20
DJ's wife finds Marcus and Amber Capone's ibogaine documentary. DJ agrees to go largely to keep the peace, carrying a photo standing on a cliff's edge 80 feet above jagged rocks.
Claims made here
Before ibogaine treatment, DJ Shipley was taking approximately 60 pills per day, including Adderall, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Prazosin, Tramadol, Toradol, Percocet, and Vicodin.
At the peak of his pharmaceutical dependency, DJ Shipley was taking approximately 60 pills per day including Adderall, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Prazosin, Tramadol, Percocet, and others.
Chapter 30 · 2:14:55
Ibogaine surfaces all buried memory, allows perspective-shifting into others' points of view, builds forced empathy, lasts 16 hours, and eliminates every addiction upon waking. [1] — DJ Shipley "Ibogaine opens every drawer in your memory simultaneously and makes you relive past experiences from all perspectives — including your own …" 2:18:52
Claims made here
Ibogaine is derived from the iboga plant in West Africa and eliminates addiction in a single session regardless of the substance, including heroin, gambling, sex, and pornography.
After ibogaine treatment, DJ Shipley stopped consuming two cans of Copenhagen chewing tobacco daily that he had used every day since age 18, and has not touched it since.
Ibogaine opens every drawer in your memory simultaneously and makes you relive past experiences from all perspectives — including your own worst moments seen through the eyes of the person you hurt. It builds empathy by force. And when it's over, every addiction you had is simply gone.
DJ Shipley dipped 2 cans of Copenhagen tobacco every day from age 18 until ibogaine treatment — after waking up from the medicine he never touched it again.
Chapter 31 · 2:23:48
Coming home to 30 boxes of his belongings and divorce papers, DJ drives to a private beach with a pistol, chooses a song, and is stopped by his wife's tracking app at the last moment. [1] — DJ Shipley "DJ Shipley drove to that beach in Virginia Beach with a gun, sat in his truck, put on a song, and told himself that when it ended, he would…" 2:23:48
DJ Shipley drove to that beach in Virginia Beach with a gun, sat in his truck, put on a song, and told himself that when it ended, he would walk into the water and shoot himself. His wife's tracking app and two phone calls are the reason he's still alive.
After 5 rounds of 5-MeO-DMT that weren't working because he was still fighting it, DJ Shipley took the sixth hit with the explicit intention of killing himself. The medicine killed his ego instead. He woke up and wanted to go home for the first time in his life.
Chapter 32 · 2:28:40
After 5 failed 5-MeO rounds of emotional resistance, DJ takes the sixth with the intention to die. The ego dies instead, and he wakes up desperate to get home. [1] — DJ Shipley "After 5 rounds of 5-MeO-DMT that weren't working because he was still fighting it, DJ Shipley took the sixth hit with the explicit intentio…" 2:28:00
Claims made here
Ibogaine reduces PTSD and depression symptoms by approximately 80–90% almost instantly, taking patients from severe hypervigilance to baseline normal within about 12 hours.
Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT combined is equivalent to 15–20 years of conventional therapy compressed into a 5-day process.
The Netflix documentary 'In Ways and War' featuring veterans using ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT was instrumental in advancing Trump's executive action to fast-track research into psychedelic treatments for veterans.
DJ Shipley estimated that ibogaine reduces PTSD and depression symptoms by 80–90% almost instantly, taking patients from severe hypervigilance to baseline normal within 12 hours.
DJ Shipley described the ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT treatment protocol as equivalent to 15–20 years of conventional therapy compressed into a 5-day process.
DJ Shipley went from 60 pills a day to zero medications in 5 days. The combined ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT protocol he describes as 15 to 20 years of therapy compressed into a single week. He is now completely clean of every substance he was addicted to.
After years on approximately 60 pills per day, DJ Shipley is currently on zero medications — no pain pills, no SSRIs, no Ambien, nothing.
While DJ Shipley was in Mexico doing ibogaine, his wife hacked his phone and found every affair. She boxed every item he owned, hired a lawyer, and filed for divorce. He came home to 30 boxes in his office and a gun in his waistband. What happened next is one of the most remarkable relationship stories you'll hear.
Chapter 33 · 2:33:40
His wife discovered all his affairs while he was in Mexico. They sit together, DJ confesses everything, blocks 150 contacts, signs a postnup, and earns one day at a time. Their marriage is now extraordinary.
Chapter 34 · 2:39:50
DJ's ibogaine sessions never surfaced military trauma — only childhood wounds and identity loss from leaving. He argues most veteran suffering is heartbreak, not PTSD. [1] — DJ Shipley "Ibogaine never once surfaced military trauma for DJ Shipley — not a single combat memory. All of his trauma came from childhood and from lo…" 2:40:36
Ibogaine never once surfaced military trauma for DJ Shipley — not a single combat memory. All of his trauma came from childhood and from losing the identity of being a SEAL. The suffering isn't PTSD. It's heartbreak. You lost your one true love.
Chapter 35 · 2:43:20
DJ recommends Ambio Life Sciences and Veteran Solutions for ibogaine treatment, stresses the importance of pre-work and post-integration, and warns against taking a slot casually.
Through GBRs Group, DJ Shipley and his team train approximately 1,500 to 2,000 law enforcement officers per year.
No indexed bits in this chapter.
DJ Shipley drove to that beach in Virginia Beach with a gun, sat in his truck, put on a song, and told himself that when it ended, he would walk into the water and shoot himself. His wife's tracking app and two phone calls are the reason he's still alive.
After 5 rounds of 5-MeO-DMT that weren't working because he was still fighting it, DJ Shipley took the sixth hit with the explicit intention of killing himself. The medicine killed his ego instead. He woke up and wanted to go home for the first time in his life.
This episode
Discussed as a commander-in-chief who DJ Shipley says avoided more military conflicts than any president he served under, including canceling an op on the ramp via phone call.
The al-Qaeda leader whose killing in Operation Neptune Spear was conducted by DJ Shipley's DEVGRU squadron in May 2011.
A Chinook helicopter callsign; shot down in Afghanistan August 2011 killing 31 personnel including 17 Navy SEALs from DJ's unit.
Former DEVGRU operator and co-founder of the ibogaine advocacy movement, whose personal story inspired DJ Shipley to try plant medicine treatment.
Australian SAS Medal of Honor recipient facing war crimes charges in Australia, cited by DJ Shipley as an example of unjust prosecution of special operators.
Former Navy SEAL mentioned alongside Jocko Willink as one of the two people who have recruited more people into military service over the past decade than anyone in the past 50 years.
Retired Navy SEAL and author cited alongside David Goggins as a major recruiter to military service through books and public profile.
The Tier 1 Navy SEAL unit DJ Shipley served in for 9 years, the most elite counter-terrorism unit in the US military.
DJ Shipley's company, which trains approximately 1,500–2,000 law enforcement officers per year and hosts speaking engagements for first responders.
The ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT clinic in Mexico that DJ Shipley recommends for veterans seeking psychedelic-assisted therapy.
The US military medical center where DJ Shipley underwent a 31-day involuntary medication detox in a psychiatric ward.
Platform hosting the documentary 'In Ways and War' about ibogaine treatment for veterans featuring DJ Shipley, Marcus Capone, and others.
A psychoactive plant-derived substance DJ Shipley credits with ending all his addictions, stopping his suicidal ideation, and saving his marriage.
A potent fast-acting psychedelic compound used alongside ibogaine in DJ Shipley's treatment to achieve ego dissolution and emotional purging.
The primary theater of operations referenced throughout, where DJ Shipley and his unit conducted numerous raids and counter-terrorism missions.
Secondary theater of operations discussed in the context of urban combat, Fallujah clearing operations, and door-to-door counterinsurgency.
Discussed as the current conflict theater under the Trump administration, with DJ offering hypothetical views on how to end it quickly.
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The divorce rate in the Navy SEAL teams exceeds 100% because many operators divorce and remarry multiple times throughout their career.
David Goggins and Jocko Willink together have put more people into military service over the last 10 years than anyone else in the last 50 years.
SEAL team operators are away from home a minimum of 270 days per year, sometimes as many as 350 days.
Before ibogaine treatment, DJ Shipley was taking approximately 60 pills per day, including Adderall, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Prazosin, Tramadol, Toradol, Percocet, and Vicodin.
After ibogaine treatment, DJ Shipley stopped consuming two cans of Copenhagen chewing tobacco daily that he had used every day since age 18, and has not touched it since.
Ibogaine reduces PTSD and depression symptoms by approximately 80–90% almost instantly, taking patients from severe hypervigilance to baseline normal within about 12 hours.
Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT combined is equivalent to 15–20 years of conventional therapy compressed into a 5-day process.
South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world, and a key contributing factor is that K-pop stars are contractually required to remain unpartnered and childless, providing a dominant cultural model.
Ibogaine is derived from the iboga plant in West Africa and eliminates addiction in a single session regardless of the substance, including heroin, gambling, sex, and pornography.
Every person shot in Iraq or Afghanistan results in a cash payout to the family by the US government, regardless of whether they were a combatant.
War crimes by US and allied forces are now extremely rare compared to World War II and Vietnam because ubiquitous surveillance technology means any incident would be captured and prosecuted.
Extortion 17, shot down in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, killed all 31 people on board including 17 Navy SEALs, and was the single deadliest incident for Naval Special Warfare.
Logging 10,000 hours of practice at 8 hours per day takes approximately 4 years.
DJ Shipley experienced suicidal ideation every single day from approximately 2013 until 2020–2021, both while active duty and during transition.
The Netflix documentary 'In Ways and War' featuring veterans using ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT was instrumental in advancing Trump's executive action to fast-track research into psychedelic treatments for veterans.
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