I had some unhealthy mental habits prior to founding my company Isha Health. During the pandemic, I worked as an ER doctor and became a new mom. I had been working nonstop and ignoring my mental health to get me through my days. I felt numb and isolated but kept going because I had to. I hated talking about my past and feelings and never thought about how I could benefit from it until I had ketamine-assisted therapy recommended by my brother. Although I had been a practicing emergency doctor for 10 years and administered Ketamine to hundreds of patients being well aware of its safety in most cases, I was still skeptical if this would work for me. I read hundreds of research papers on the use of Ketamine for mental health and became convinced that ketamine therapy could transform my mental health. So I gave it a try.​

In “Kafka on the Shore” by Haruki Murakami, Crow tells Kafka throughout the novel that he must be "the toughest fifteen-year-old in the world". That was who I wanted to be as a teen. In retrospect, that made me hyper focused on what I wanted to achieve while distancing myself from my own emotions. When I went through ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, it gave me an understanding that I was part of something bigger than all of us just like anybody else. It changed the stories that I had been telling myself. It changed how I felt, thought, and acted. I was no longer numb or isolated. I felt transformed. The experience led to the creation of Isha Health.

Ketamine has a unique quality where some people experience psychedelic effects while it stimulates the creation of new brain cells and new connections between neurons. This makes your mind more flexible to new ideas and new ways of thinking. The scientific community has been aware of the potential benefits of Ketamine for several decades. Just in the past 20 years or so, multiple research institutions such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard published articles that support the efficacy of ketamine for mental health conditions. While ketamine has been widely used in medicine since its FDA approval in 1970, its use in mental health treatment has gained more awareness as a result of the explosion of interest in different psychedelic substances for mental health treatment over the past couple of years.