Ibogaine has shown the capacity to help individuals with a vast range of addictions and behavior health problems including addiction to alcohol/ETOH, pharmaceutical narcotics, and street drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and kratom.
Ibogaine has also shown a propensity to help individuals who suffer from treatment-resistant depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, excessive eating habits, gambling, and other behavioral health issues typically rooted in trauma, depression, guilt, insecurities, and/or fear.
How Ibogaine Works on the Brain
Ibogaine treatment has been shown to work through the brain’s neurotransmitter system, stabilizing neurochemistry and provoking cellular neuron growth and connectivity (neurogenesis).
Following administration, Ibogaine is converted through the liver into its metabolite “Noribogaine” which can remain in the body for up to four months.
Noribogaine acts as a potent serotonin reuptake inhibitor and as a moderate kappa and mu-opioid agonist that has been shown to dramatically reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and cravings for drugs and alcohol.
To clarify, ibogaine works by reversing the affects of drugs and alcohol on receptor gene expression and impacting the neuroreceptors that affect addiction.
Specifically, ibogaine acts upon the kappa-opioid receptors, sigma receptors, and nicotine receptors, by returning them to a pre-addicted state and breaking the emotional cycle of addiction.
By reversing these addictive pathways in the brain, ibogaine dramatically helps an individual achieve physiological and psychological benefits that counteract alcohol and drug addiction and drastically suppresses an individual’s desire to use or drink.
The Neurochemical Impact
“Ibogaine’s ability to stabilize biochemical function in the brain and reinstate normal production of serotonin and dopamine results in an addicted individual by-passing the common symptoms of depression, anxiety and cravings typically found during early recovery stages”, said Nico Vara of the Avante Ibogaine Institute in Nassau, Bahamas.
This creates a springboard effect, advancing the individual into a physiological and emotional state of well-being that would normally require two to three months to achieve under traditional detox scenarios.
This rapid stabilization places the individual into a state of emotional and physical balance and well-being that yields tremendous confidence in their early recovery and supports their belief in achieving long-term sustainable abstinence from drugs and alcohol.
Types of Addictions Treated by Ibogaine
Opioid Addiction
Ibogaine is well known for its proficiency in treating individuals dependent on opioids.
Opioid addictions are known to be some of the most difficult to treat and overcome given the often debilitating discomfort of both physical and emotional withdrawals.
Unlike most drugs that leave an individual feeling psychologically depressed, anxious, and irritated following termination of use, opioids have the added effect of physical withdrawals that resemble flu-like symptoms and often include nausea, chills, cold-sweats, runny nose, achiness, diarrhea, muscle spasms, and more.
Clinical ibogaine treatment bypasses most, if not all of these symptoms leaving the individual physiologically stable and capable to pursue their recovery with strength and commitment, absent the discomfort of agonizing withdrawal symptoms.
Ibogaine uniquely serves as a counteragent to rapidly cleanse the body and liver of toxins while rebalancing neurochemical levels, including increasing serotonin and GDNF proteins in the brain. When administered in conjunction with our IV nutritional supplementations, amino acid nutraceuticals, and electrolyte replacement therapies, patients experience results that would normally take weeks, or even months, to achieve.
Alcoholism
Ibogaine uniquely serves as a ETOH/alcohol counteragent to rapidly cleanse the body and liver of toxins while rebalancing neurochemical levels, including increasing serotonin and GDNF proteins in the brain.
When administered in conjunction with or immediately following IV nutritional supplementations, amino acid nutraceuticals, and electrolyte replacements, patients experience results that would normally take weeks and likely even months, to achieve.
Success stories of Ibogaine
Dale W., of Wynekta, Illinois describes his ibogaine experience as “a partnership” between him and ibogaine. “During my ibogaine therapy I forged a partnership with ibogaine, an agreement that we will be stronger together. I developed a deeply emotional sense of comradery with the medicine and felt that it had invested in me spiritually and physiologically. I no longer felt like I was fighting my alcohol addiction alone.”
Methamphetamine Addiction
Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant drug that has increased in popularity in recent years throughout the United States and Canada. Popularized during to 2010’s Netflix show “Breaking Bad,, Methamphetamine addiction is ugly and often results in the individual using for days on end without sleep or food/nutrition. Overdose death from Methamphetamine is common as it severely agitates the heart and is toxic to the lungs, liver, and the brain’s neurological system.
How Ibogaine Helps to Recover from Methamphetamine Addiction
Ibogaine is unique in how it helps those struggling with methamphetamine addiction.
Unlike traditional treatments, Ibogaine addresses both the physical and psychological aspects of addiction. It works by resetting the brain’s addiction pathways, which are often disrupted by long-term meth use. This reset can reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings, providing a clearer path to recovery.
Additionally, the treatment offers a psychological introspection that many find vital for understanding and combating the root causes of their addiction. It helps:
- Resetting Brain Pathways: Ibogaine has a unique ability to reset addiction-related pathways in the brain. This can significantly reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with methamphetamine use.
- Psychological Insight: The treatment facilitates deep psychological introspection, helping patients understand and address the underlying causes of their addiction.
Cocaine Addiction
How Ibogaine Helps to Recover from Cocaine Addiction:
- Interrupting Addiction Cycle: Ibogaine acts directly on the brain regions affected by cocaine use. It helps to interrupt the cycle of dependency by resetting the brain’s chemical balance, reducing the intense cravings often experienced by those addicted to cocaine.
- Emotional Processing: During treatment, Ibogaine can facilitate an intense emotional and psychological journey that allows individuals to confront and process past traumas and issues linked to their addiction. This deep introspective experience is crucial for long-term recovery.
- Reduction of Withdrawal Symptoms: Patients typically experience a significant reduction in withdrawal symptoms, which are often a major hurdle in overcoming cocaine addiction. This smoother transition can lead to a more sustainable recovery process.
Ibogaine provides a comprehensive approach to treating cocaine addiction by addressing both the physical symptoms and the psychological roots of the addiction.
Nicotine Addiction
How Ibogaine Helps to Recover from Nicotine Addiction:
- Neurochemical Reset: Ibogaine helps to reset the brain’s neurochemistry affected by nicotine addiction. This reset reduces the physical cravings for nicotine, making it easier for individuals to quit smoking or using other tobacco products.
- Behavioral Insights: During the Ibogaine treatment, individuals often experience profound insights into their behaviors and motivations. This can lead to a better understanding of the psychological triggers that lead to nicotine use, enabling more effective coping strategies.
Kratom Addiction
How Ibogaine Assists in Overcoming Kratom Addiction:
Kratom works through the same opioid receptors in the brain as street opioid drugs and pharmaceutical opioids. Ibogaine’s propensity to reset these opioid receptors leads to a nearly immediate break in the kratom addiction cycle and returns the individual to their predicted state. It also helps by-
- Resetting Addiction Signals: Ibogaine targets the brain areas that control addiction, resetting them to reduce dependency on kratom. This helps lessen the habitual need to use kratom as a coping mechanism.
- Emotional Clarity: Treatment with Ibogaine provides a unique opportunity for emotional clarity and introspection, allowing individuals to address the deeper psychological aspects of their addiction.
- Alleviating Withdrawal: Ibogaine treatment can ease the physical symptoms of withdrawal from kratom, which are often a significant barrier to quitting. This includes reducing feelings of fatigue, anxiety, and depression that can accompany kratom withdrawal.
Stimulant Addiction
How Ibogaine Helps in Recovery from Stimulant Addiction:
Ibogaine serves as a strong serotonin reuptake inhibitor, elevating mood and energy levels crucial for those recovering from stimulant abuse and addiction.
- Brain Chemistry Restoration: Ibogaine helps to stabilize the brain chemistry disrupted by prolonged stimulant use. This stabilization is crucial in diminishing the compulsive urge to use stimulants.
- Mental and Emotional Insight: The treatment facilitates a profound journey into one’s own mental and emotional state. This introspective process can uncover underlying issues that may contribute to stimulant abuse, providing a path towards addressing these root causes.
- Smoothing Withdrawal Processes: Ibogaine has been noted for its ability to smooth out the rough patches of withdrawal, typically marked by extreme fatigue, depression, and cognitive fog, making it easier for individuals to step away from dependency.
This holistic approach provided by Ibogaine not only addresses the immediate symptoms of addiction but also fosters a deeper, more sustainable healing process.
Limitations and Risks of Ibogaine
As with any addiction treatment method or protocol, ibogaine treatment has limitations. Although ibogaine possesses profound transformational attributes, candidates with the highest success rates are those who arrive for treatment in a committed state, mentally and emotionally prepared to attack their recovery head on, fully engage in their therapy with an open mind and a willingness to accept all of the benefits the therapy has to offer.
Disqualifying criteria include:
- Active neurological or psychiatric disorders, such as cerebellar dysfunction, psychosis, severe/suicidal depression, organic brain disease or dementia requiring concomitant medications that may cause adverse Ibogaine or other drug interactions (e.g., anti-epileptic drugs, antidepressants, neuroleptics).
- A sensitivity or adverse reactions to the treatment medication.
- Significant heart disease or a history of myocardial infarction.
- Hypertension uncontrolled by conventional medical therapy.
- Clinically significant laboratory values outside of limits specified by normal lab parameters.
- Any disease of the gastrointestinal system, liver or kidneys, or abnormal condition which compromises a function of these systems such as a history of major gastrointestinal tract surgery (e.g., gastrectomy, gastrostomy, bowel resections., etc.). history or diagnosis of an active peptic ulcer or chronic disease of the gastrointestinal tract, (e.g. ulcerative colitis, regional enteritis, Crohn’s disease or gastrointestinal bleeding, etc.).
- Indication of impaired liver function.
- Indication of impaired renal function.
- Active HIV, Hepatitis or Tuberculosis.
- Currently pregnant and/or nursing.
Ibogaine is considered the most powerful of all entheogenic compounds.
Accordingly, the therapy is not suitable for every candidate and proper pre-clearance screening, lab work, and EKG are imperative to ensure client safety.
Having said this, the benefits of clinical ibogaine treatment, particularly for those struggling with chemical addictions and alcoholism, typically outweigh the potential risks and adverse effects of the molecule.
The Avante Ibogaine Institute fields an expert team specialized at diagnosing and assessing candidate qualifications in order to ensure their clients receive the most effective and safe clinical ibogaine treatment experience possible.
Common misconceptions and what current research says about safety and efficacy
Although clinical ibogaine treatment does pose certain risk factors, The Avante team is expert at mitigating treatment risks via a comprehensive client pre-treatment assessments and lab tests. In addition, Avante’s high RN-to-Patient ratio (1 to 2) that ensures
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Attention to detail is evident from the moment each client arrives and is escorted to their private guestroom appointed with posturepedic bedding and en-suite or semi-private bath.
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What to Expect When You Choose The Avante Ibogaine Institute?
The Avante Institute is proud of the fact that 80% of our patient flow is based on referrals from previously satisfied clients who have come to trust and value our luxury ibogaine treatment center.
Upon arrival, clients are reassured by our expert clinical team, beautiful oceanfront Caribbean location, and the comfort of our upscale, luxury treatment facility. Our compassionate and caring staff treats our client confidentiality with the utmost discretion and respect.
Conclusion
Although the benefits of clinical ibogaine treatment far outweigh the adverse effects of chronic long-term addiction and alcoholism, ibogaine treatment should only be sought from a competent clinical facility.
The Avante Institute team encourages all ibogaine treatment candidates and their families to carefully research a provider before deciding which ibogaine treatment facility is right for you.
Longevity of the clinical ibogaine provider and its safety record are paramount when choosing your treatment team.
