How to Change Your Mind

This book by Michael Pollan has been genuinely recommended 6 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Adam Gazzaley, Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, anxiety & stress, brain health, consciousness, depression & mood. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Oct 2020 and the most recent from Jun 2024. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.

• “Dr Carl Hart all these different people Michael Polland and his amazing book all these people that are talking about these experiences now”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “his amazing book”
  Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 202401:48:59

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #1964 - Rick Doblin". The episode features Rick Doblin: Founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies); psychedelic researcher who pioneered MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD through decades of FDA clinical trials. MAPS founder Rick Doblin on pushing MDMA therapy through the FDA, ibogaine for addiction, debunking psychedelic myths, and the ethics of commercializing sacred substances.

• “If you want a good overview, I think How to Change Your Mind is a great place to start”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I think How to Change Your Mind is a great place to start”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 202302:55:01

  Said during "Dr. Andrew Huberman, The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance". The episode features Dr. Andrew Huberman: Neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University's School of Medicine, and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. Andrew Huberman walks Tim Ferriss through his weekly training split, supplement stack, and the five daily foundations of physical and mental performance.

• “I would recommend to those who haven't read it how to change your mind by Michael pollen gives a pretty good overview”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I would recommend to those who haven't read it”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202200:41:34

  Said during "The Possibilities of Mind-Altering Compounds | Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy: Associate professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Auckland who leads the Auckland Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group; ran the world's first RCT of LSD microdosing and has studied ketamine, scopolamine, and TMS in depressed patients. Psychopharmacologist Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy explains ketamine, classical psychedelics, and the first randomized LSD microdosing trial run in New Zealand.

• “one first step there is to introduce them to How to Change Your Mind, the book by Michael Pollan. And if they're willing to read that”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one first step there is to introduce them to How to Change Your Mind, the book by Michael Pollan”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202101:16:49

  Said during "Q&A with Tim, Tools for Better Sleep, Parenting, Fear, How to Boost Your Mood, and More". The episode features Tim Ferriss: Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show. This is a solo Q&A episode where he both asks and answers, fielding live-chat and pre-submitted listener questions. Tim Ferriss answers live and submitted Q&A on sleep, parenting, fear, mood, psychedelics, learning, and travel.

• “the first thing was reading michael pollan's book uh how to change your mind i know you're also friends with michael and i did not know him at the time”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i read that book and something did change in my mind”
  Adam Gazzaley · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202100:45:28

  Said during "Dr. Adam Gazzaley - Brain Optimization and The Future of Psychedelic Medicine | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Dr. Adam Gazzaley: David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF and founder/executive director of Neuroscape, a translational neuroscience center building brain-optimization tools. He is co-founder of Akili Interactive, maker of the first FDA-cleared video game treatment. Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley on FDA-cleared video game medicine and launching a UCSF psychedelic research division with Robin Carhart-Harris.

• “Michael Pollan, for those interested, his book How to Change Your Mind is exceptional. I also have two interviews with him on this podcast.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “his book How to Change Your Mind is exceptional”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 202000:33:26

  Said during "Dr Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Dr. Mark Plotkin: Ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which partners with 55 tribes to map and manage 80 million acres of ancestral rainforest. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, he has spent four decades studying shamans and healing plants of tropical America and authored Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preserving rainforest medicine.