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In our Tahoe Ketamine blog, you can expect to find a wide variety of information about ketamine for depression, ketamine for chronic pain, ketamine research, and other current news about ketamine infusion therapy.

Ketamine for Mental Health Crisis Intervention

Ketamine for Mental Health Crisis Intervention

Ketamine for Mental Health Crisis Intervention  Treating someone who is in the depths of a major depressive episode—especially someone who is suffering from suicide ideation—can be challenging,...

Depression and Daylight Savings Time

Depression and Daylight Savings Time

Could Daylight Savings be a Major Cause of Depression? It’s that time of year again for Daylight Savings Time (DST) to begin and depression might not be far behind. Every year, many people are faced...

Nature and Mental Health

Nature and Mental Health

Nature and Mental Health: Positive Growth Through Connection with Nature Did you know that more than half of the world’s population lives in urban settings and that this number is expected to...

Embrace Spring

Embrace Spring

Embrace Spring: A Few Simple Ways To Feel Renewed This Season Looking ahead to snow melting away and the flowers starting to bloom, it's time to embrace spring and all of its beauty. While the...

Winter Nutrition

Winter Nutrition

Winter Nutrition: 5 Foods for Mental Health Nutrition and its impact on mental health are often undervalued. Our diet has a significant influence, not only on our physical health but also on our...

Common Depression Symptoms

Common Depression Symptoms

4 Common Depression Symptoms to Watch Out For It is estimated that one in five adults in the U.S. will experience depression at some point during their lifetime. If you or someone you know is...

New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Mental Health

New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Mental Health

New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Mental Health It's almost 2023, and that means it's time to start thinking about what changes you want to make in your life. When you think about what would...

Ski Season and Hydration Therapy

Ski Season and Hydration Therapy

Winter is finally here and that means it’s ski season!  Ski season and Hydration Therapy go hand in hand for proper sports performance.  Time to go powder hunting and earn some après-ski after a...

Postpartum Anxiety? It Exists, But There is Hope

Postpartum Anxiety? It Exists, But There is Hope

Postpartum anxiety is a clinical condition that often goes undiagnosed. Some mothers chalk off the symptoms as just the “baby blues.” For others, the feelings range from “a little down” to a...

A Mind-Body Approach to Overcoming Depression

A Mind-Body Approach to Overcoming Depression

Mind-Body Approach to Prevent the Symptoms of  Depression   According to a study conducted by The Department of Psychiatry at The University of Melbourne, the number of people suffering from...

IV Hydration Therapy for Athletes: Inside the Drip

IV Hydration Therapy for Athletes: Inside the Drip

IV hydration therapy for athletes has become increasingly popular. Essentially anyone—regardless of their physical symptoms—can find relief at an IV hydration bar. Hangovers, jet lag, cold and flu...

Achieving a Work-Life Balance to Combat Depression

Achieving a Work-Life Balance to Combat Depression

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 25 million Americans reported that they work more than 49 hours per week. 11 million of those people said they work more than 59 hours per...

How to Recognize the Physical Symptoms of Depression

How to Recognize the Physical Symptoms of Depression

Depression is most commonly associated with emotional symptoms, such as sadness, guilt, irritability, and feelings of hopelessness. Although we know depression is a mental illness, many people also...

Brain Energy & Its Impact On Depression

Brain Energy & Its Impact On Depression

The brain is an amazing organ. It requires more energy than any other organ in our body. It is responsible for our ability to live and thrive and function and grow…and yet there is still so much...

Getting the Most Out of Ketamine Infusions

Getting the Most Out of Ketamine Infusions

Ketamine infusions are extremely effective at treating anxiety and depression, with symptoms alleviating in as little as 1-2 infusions. However, the infusion can be more effective when enhanced by...

What Chronic Pain Looks Like and How to Cope

What Chronic Pain Looks Like and How to Cope

When you continuously go to bed with--and wake up to--constant pain, it inevitably becomes a part of your everyday life. Studies have shown that 20% of Americans suffer from chronic pain. Mostly,...

Opioids: Are They as Effective as We Believe?

Opioids: Are They as Effective as We Believe?

Opioids: Are They as Effective as We Believe? The opioid epidemic has reached epic proportions—and continues to wreak havoc on millions of people’s lives. In 2016, medical professionals wrote about...

Biofeedback Shows Promise as a Depression Treatment

Biofeedback Shows Promise as a Depression Treatment

What is Biofeedback? Biofeedback is a technique that leverages the use of electrical sensors to control the body and some of its functions. Using this technique, people can make conscious changes to...

Are You Depressed? Or Just Plain Bored?

Are You Depressed? Or Just Plain Bored?

As human beings, we are social creatures. Isolation is not normal, and has undoubtedly impacted mental health on a global level. Most would probably agree that the official word of 2020 would be...

Depression, The Brain & What Ketamine Has Shown Us

Depression, The Brain & What Ketamine Has Shown Us

The Covid-19 pandemic has created an all-out mental health crisis in the U.S. Unparalleled levels of stress, fear, loneliness, and isolation have motivated scientists to search for concrete answers...

PTSD Treatments: The Best Medicines for PTSD

PTSD Treatments: The Best Medicines for PTSD

Between 7 and 8 percent of the population is thought to be affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This statistic is representative of more than just military members: anyone who has...

Resolve to Improve Your Mental Health in 2021

Resolve to Improve Your Mental Health in 2021

This has been quite a year. If you are not struggling this year then you are one of the lucky ones. Our society has been challenged on a global scale, and the collective state of mental health is in...

7 Health Benefits of Glutathione

7 Health Benefits of Glutathione

Glutathione is found in virtually every cell in our body as well as in many species on this planet. It is a powerful antioxidant with many benefits and its absence can be linked to disease,...

Ketamine Therapy: What the Experts are Saying

Ketamine Therapy: What the Experts are Saying

Ketamine, introduced as a battlefield anesthetic during the Vietnam war and known as the party drug “special K,” has come a long way, revitalizing its reputation as a legitimized—and highly...

Home Remedies for Depression During Covid-19

Home Remedies for Depression During Covid-19

Depression is on the rise. Even those who don’t generally suffer from this mental health disorder are beginning to feel it. Living through a pandemic during a time of great socio-political turmoil...

Is Mental Health a Moving Target?

Is Mental Health a Moving Target?

It makes sense to think that a psychiatric diagnosis would be a life-long health issue. Once depressed, always prone to depression…right? Well, a new study published in the Journal of the American...

Check your Symptoms: Migraine Headaches vs. Covid-19

Check your Symptoms: Migraine Headaches vs. Covid-19

The stress of COVID-19—in addition to all the world’s other concerning current events—is causing people to experience more migraine headaches than usual. Doctors are seeing more frequent migraines...

Ketamine Treatment for Bipolar Disorder

Ketamine Treatment for Bipolar Disorder

Ketamine therapy continues to be an effective drug for mood disorders. Those who suffer from bipolar disorder, may find that ketamine therapy provides relief when conventional treatment options have...

Preventing Depression & PTSD During COVID-19

Preventing Depression & PTSD During COVID-19

In 1967, Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe published their now widely-cited “Social Readjustment Rating Scale” wherein they designed a ranking of life’s most stressful experiences. Right at the...

7 Natural Ways to Boost Your Immune System

7 Natural Ways to Boost Your Immune System

Right now you are probably wondering: will I get COVID-19? How do I make sure I don't get it and spread it to my loved ones? Not surprisingly, being healthy involves making sure your immune system...

What is “Ideal” Mental Health?

What is “Ideal” Mental Health?

Everyone thinks they want to be—or that they need to be—happier than they currently are. However, while it’s a common sentiment, it’s actually quite unrealistic. We only set ourselves up for sadness...

Happiness & Social Media: How They’re Connected

Happiness & Social Media: How They’re Connected

Since 1997, social media giants have risen and fallen. Most would assume that this refers to the giants of today—Facebook and Twitter—but these companies have actually had decades of predecessors to...

Make Mental Health a Priority in the New Year

Make Mental Health a Priority in the New Year

Here we are again, standing at the start of a New Year. If you are like most people, the end of one year and the start of a new one has driven you to reflect upon your lifestyle and wellbeing. Maybe...

It’s Okay to Be Sad During the Holidays

It’s Okay to Be Sad During the Holidays

Do you get a little nauseous every time you hear It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year on the grocery store playlist? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Holiday depression is about as common as...

Ketamine Infusions: New Hope for Veterans 

Ketamine Infusions: New Hope for Veterans 

Did you know that 11 out of 100 veterans who served during the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder? And about 50% of those men and women who serve(d) our country...

How to Greet Fall With a Smile Instead of Sadness

How to Greet Fall With a Smile Instead of Sadness

The change in seasons means a change in emotions for many. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) begins and ends at about the same time every year. For most, this means symptoms begin to manifest in...

Trauma and Pain

Trauma and Pain

While most assume that chronic pain can only arise from some kind of physical injury, research says this may not be the only source. In fact, more than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain...

Ketamine and Alzheimers Disease

Ketamine and Alzheimers Disease

“Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by insidious cognitive decline and loss of memory function.” This was how Alois Alzheimer, a German neuropathologist,...

How to Choose a Ketamine Clinic

How to Choose a Ketamine Clinic

Over the past few years, ketamine infusion centers have been opening up across the country, bringing new hope to millions of Americans suffering from major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety,...

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