The Trip Lab

About The Trip Lab

The Trip Lab is a podcast on integrative medicine and psychedelics hosted by triple 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. Keep exploring on Substack: drmaryella.substack.com

Publisher

Dr. Mary Ella Wood

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Mar 2022

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   #40 – Birth as a Psychedelic Portal: What psychedelic science teaches us about preparing for labor and postpartum (with Karissa Bollinger)

   What if birth is the oldest psychedelic experience there is? My guest this week, Karissa Bollinger, is a birth educator, a guide for altered states, and the creator of Wave Work. She’s spent years preparing women for both psychedelic journeys and birth, and she kept noticing it was the same work. We talk about why birth can be a “good trip” or a “bad trip,” and how that might shape postpartum more than we realize. We also get into why the word “contraction” may be setting women up to brace ag...

2. 

   13 Sept 2026

   #39 – What if psychedelics show us MORE of reality?

   Send us Fan Mail Do psychedelics distort reality, or do they loosen the filters that normally shape what we perceive? In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of consciousness, predictive processing, psychedelic perception, DMT entity experiences, mystical and traditional altered states, and the limits of ordinary waking awareness. We also follow the stranger historical side of consciousness research, including MKULTRA, remote viewing, the Gateway Process, and declassified U.S. government...

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   17 Aug 2026

   #38 – The Mysteries of Women’s Health: We notice. Then science catches up (sometimes).

   What happens between the moment women notice something and the moment medicine decides it is real? In June 2026, women all over the internet started asking the same question: what happened to our periods? That strange collective conversation sent me down a much bigger rabbit hole into menstrual cycles, the moon, women’s intuition, midwives and witches, unexplained infertility, and the long history of women noticing things before science had an answer for them. In this episode, we explore: The...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

2,021

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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