Ketamine therapy rapidly interrupts rigid addiction neurocircuitry, creating a vital window of neuroplasticity. We combine this medical intervention with our adapted 12-step framework, metabolic psychiatry, and lifestyle integration to heal the underlying trauma, metabolic dysfunction, and spiritual void driving the addiction
Addiction involves physical changes in how the brain handles rewards, makes decisions, and reacts to stress. Specifically, years of using a substance change your brain chemicals and lower your ability to feel natural joy. Therefore, this is not a moral failure or a choice. Instead, it is a medical brain condition that needs a medical, brain-focused treatment.
White-Knuckle Sobriety Isn’t Recovery
Counting days without addressing the underlying trauma, metabolic dysfunction, spiritual emptiness, and neural patterns driving your addiction is a recipe for relapse. True recovery requires transformation at every level — biological, psychological, and spiritual. That’s what the 12 steps have always been about, and it’s what our approach delivers with medical precision.
Alcohol Destroys Metabolism
Chronic alcohol use causes gut permeability, nutrient depletion (B1, B12, folate, magnesium, zinc), liver inflammation, hormonal disruption, and mitochondrial damage. These metabolic consequences then drive anxiety, depression, insomnia, and cravings — creating a vicious cycle that willpower alone cannot break. A ketogenic diet clinical trial demonstrated significant reduction in alcohol withdrawal severity and cravings.
Burnout has real physical effects on your body. Specifically, it leads to unbalanced stress hormones, low cell energy, higher inflammation, lost nutrients, and poor brain flexibility. Therefore, through Seaside Longevity, we find and fix this physical damage caused by long-term stress.
Ketamine therapy interrupts addiction neurocircuitry, reduces cravings, and creates rapid neuroplasticity for rewiring reward pathways.
Comprehensive assessment of addiction’s biological and psychological roots.
The adapted 12-Step framework provides structure for lasting transformation.
Building a recovery-sustaining life.
Free Consultation
Confidential conversation about your substance use and recovery goals.
Evaluation
Medical evaluation, addiction assessment, trauma screening, and metabolic labs.
Plan
Ketamine protocol plus metabolic restoration, 12-step framework, and integration therapies.
Treatment
Sessions in our calm setting with integration support.
Transformation
Ongoing support, community building, and relapse prevention.
Yes. Ketamine works by changing brain chemistry. Specifically, it helps disrupt addiction patterns and supports the brain in developing new pathways. As a result, many patients report relief from cravings. Furthermore, when combined with professional therapy and the 12-step framework, ketamine can build a foundation for recovery.
The 12 steps provide a proven framework for personal change. Specifically, they focus on key actions like acceptance, honest self-checks, fixing mistakes, daily habits, and helping others. Therefore, we build these ideas directly into our medical care, combining real-world recovery tools with doctor-led precision. However, this process is not religious. Instead, your “higher power” can simply be nature, your community, or anything else that feels bigger than yourself.
A: We primarily focus on alcohol, but our approach can be applied to other substance use disorders. A consultation helps determine the best treatment path for your situation.
Absolutely, because blood sugar crashes can trigger intense cravings. In addition, lacking key nutrients stops the body from making feel-good brain chemicals. At the same time, poor gut health harms your mood and reward systems. Meanwhile, long-term swelling in the body drives the anxiety and depression that feed substance use. Therefore, fixing these body chemistry problems is crucial for a lasting recovery
A: We’ll discuss this during your evaluation. Safety is the priority. Some patients may need medically supervised detox before starting ketamine therapy. We can coordinate with detox providers if needed.
A: Traditional rehab provides structure and community but typically lacks metabolic assessment, neuroplasticity-enhancing treatments like ketamine, precision genetic testing, and the individualized medical optimization we offer. Our approach combines the medical precision of metabolic psychiatry with the proven behavioral framework of the 12 steps.
If you’re ready to stop managing your addiction and start healing it, the first step is a free, confidential call.
