Jordan Poyer has been effectively using plant-based medicine to treat his mental health since learning about it via Aaron Rogers’ visit on the Pat McAfee show.
This story focuses on Buffalo Bills and Jordan Poyer.
Aaron Rodgers, Miami Dolphins, and Pat McAfee.
After a seven-year stint in Buffalo, Jordan Poyer was released last season and signed a one-year contract with the Miami Dolphins.
Jordan Poyer said in an in-depth interview on Eric Wood’s ‘Centred on Buffalo Podcast’ that he began researching the health benefits of plant-based medicine about two years ago. He stated that, despite his early reservations regarding plant medicine and psychedelics, he became more interested in learning and exploring the benefits after becoming despondent during his recovery. Poyer quit consuming alcohol in 2020.
Seeking more purpose in life.
“I was about three and a half years sober (when) I started to feel exactly how I was feeling while I was at my lowest points of drinking,” said Poyer. “I was like, ‘Well, gosh, I’ve been clean for three years and I’m still like this, unhappy, like, what’s wrong with me?…I went to AA, which helped me recover from my drinking, but I always felt like there was something more.
Poyer learned about Ayahuasca from Aaron Rogers.
Poyer first discovered plant-based medione while talking to Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee Show. “All of a sudden, one day, I’m watching, oddly, the Pat McAfee Show, and I’m very into it for some strange reason, and Aaron Rodgers is on there. He began discussing
ayahuasca, and he began discussing plant medicine.”
Ayahuasca (pronounced ‘eye-ah-WAH-ska’) is a plant-derived hallucinogenic.
Despite being sceptical at first, Poyer was intrigued: “This word ayahuasca came up, and (Rodgers) was talking about it, and I was listening, and at the time, I was thinking, like, bro, you are crazy, you know, going to do some plant medicine in the woods with some shaman…that just sounds just out of this freaking world, which it is…, but it intrigued me, but I still had that negative idea about it.”
Why Poyer found ayahuasca useful
“A lot of people with PTSD go sit with ayahuasca because of those post-traumatic stress, those instances and those negative emotions are stored in our bodies. And being able to finally let go of a lot of those negative emotions and feelings in your body is such a liberating feeling.”
Poyer went into great detail about how ayahuasca has helped him expand his mind, saying, “Plant medicine really opens it up.” “I see it as a portal.”
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While it may seem surreal for the Bills Mafia to imagine Poyer playing in Highmark Stadium in a Dolphins uniform next year, this is the new reality in Buffalo’s salary cap management.
It was good to hear Poyer on Wood’s podcast profess his continued positive affection for Buffalo, “I know the true people in Bills Mafia, the true people in the community…I love them …there’s so much love that I have for them.”