The Trip Lab
The Trip Lab is a podcast on integrative medicine and psychedelics hosted by board-certified physician Dr. Mary Ella Wood. Through conversations on psychedelics, neuroscience, and whole-person care, the show examines emerging evidence alongside deeper questions of meaning, healing, and human experience. Life is a trip. Let’s explore it.
The Trip Lab
Latest Episodes
#28 – Women’s Health Beyond Hormones: The Missing Model
Women’s health is often approached through a hormonal lens, but hormones are only one part of the story. In this episode, we explore a broader framework for women’s health that includes the neuro-endocrine system, inflammation, metabolism, the ...
#27 – Psychedelics Without the Psychedelics. What These Ancient Teachers Are Telling Us
The modern psychedelic renaissance is teaching us something important, not just about psychedelic substances, but about how healing actually happens. Beyond the molecules, psychedelic science is revealing the conditions under which the human ne...
#26 – What Psychedelics Ask of Those Who Lead
Psychedelic medicine is moving fast. Faster than regulation. Faster than standardization. And in many ways, faster than the data itself.In this episode, we explore what psychedelics are teaching us about practicing medicine under uncerta...
#25 – We Oversimplified Psychedelics. The Brain Is Doing Something More Interesting (DMN Modulation, Network Dynamics, and the Brain–Body Connection)
Our understanding of how psychedelics work has evolved in meaningful ways over the past several years. While earlier neuroscience frameworks helped move the field forward, newer research has added important nuance and depth to how we interpret ...
#24 – Microdosing Psychedelics: Evidence Updates, the Placebo Response, and the Neuroscience Behind Why It May (or May Not) Work
Microdosing has gone mainstream and is often described as a tool for creativity, mood, productivity, and emotional healing. But what does the science actually say?In this episode of The Trip Lab, I take an evidence-based look at...
