#63 - Hilda Sánchez:  Is Ibogaine Safe?

Hilda Sánchez has been quietly doing some of the most important work at Beond since she joined the team. She came from traditional hospital medicine, where the job is to intervene, stabilize, and move to the next patient, then she walked into a psychedelic treatment center and everything she knew about nursing got turned inside out.

Today, Talia and Hilda talk about what it actually looks like to keep someone safe during an ibogaine treatment. From the moment a guest is medically approved through arrival, pre-treatment assessment, the treatment itself, and every hour of their stay after, safety is the thread running through all of it. Hilda walks through the certifications nurses complete, the cardiac monitoring protocols, trauma-informed consent forms, and the difference between flood and fractional dosing. She also talks about how protocols have evolved over several thousand treatments and the guests who shaped her along the way. This is a conversation about what it means to grow as a practitioner inside a team that grows together.

Hilda Sánchez is a lead nurse at Beond Ibogaine Treatment Center in Mexico. She trained as a nurse in Puebla and worked emergency and operating rooms across Tulum, Nayarit, and Puebla before joining Beond three years ago. She has supported thousands of ibogaine treatments and helped shape the clinical and trauma-informed protocols the Beond team uses today.

• (2:00) Why Hilda became a nurse and what brought her to Beond
• (6:00) What shocked her: psychedelic nursing vs. hospital medicine
• (12:00) Nurse training: ACLS, trip sitting, and cardiac monitoring
• (16:00) Trauma-informed intake: consent forms and customization
• (22:00) Flood dosing vs. fractional dosing
• (33:00) Treatment-day protocols: EKG, UDT, and the treatment room
• (43:00) Code blue training and emergency readiness
• (52:00) Personal breakthrough and advice for those on the fence