Author Bio
Johnny Tabaie
Founder & Director of Operations · Creator of the Pouyan Method™ · 15+ years of holistic recovery leadership
Johnny Tabaie is the founder of Sanctuary Tulum and creator of the Pouyan Method™, a trademarked, evidence-informed holistic healing protocol. Since 2011, he has personally directed thousands of one-on-one client recoveries from addiction, trauma, PTSD, depression, and complex chronic illness — without pharmaceuticals, group therapy, or talk-therapy models.
Johnny is not a licensed physician. All medical procedures at Sanctuary Tulum — including plant medicine sessions, IV therapy, HBOT, EBOO, and plasmapheresis — are performed under the supervision of licensed medical staff led by our Medical Director, Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD.
Every long-form article, page, and treatment guide published on Sanctuary Tulum's site is written or directly supervised by Johnny, then medically reviewed before publication. This author page exists so readers can verify the person and clinical team standing behind each recommendation on the site — an authorship transparency practice that matches Google's E-E-A-T guidance for YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) content.
Johnny's editorial focus is the intersection of ibogaine treatment center, ayahuasca ceremony program, 5-MeO-DMT ceremony program, psilocybin therapy, regenerative IV work, and the practical logistics of licensed international treatment.
Areas of Expertise
- • Addiction Recovery & Holistic Detox
- • Sacred Plant Medicine (Ayahuasca, Ibogaine, 5-MeO-DMT, Psilocybin)
- • The Pouyan Method™ — proprietary healing protocol
- • Brain Repair IV Therapy & Regenerative Medicine
- • Integrative Mental Health (PTSD, Depression, Trauma)
- • Luxury Licensed Rehab Operations
Credentials & Experience
- • Founder & Director of Operations, Sanctuary Tulum (2011–present)
- • Creator of the Pouyan Method™ — trademarked holistic healing protocol
- • 15+ years directing licensed luxury healing operations
- • Guided thousands of one-on-one client recoveries
- • Author of long-form content on plant medicine, addiction, and integrative medicine
Frequently Asked About Johnny & Sanctuary Tulum Authorship
Who writes Sanctuary Tulum's content?
Every long-form article, page, and treatment guide is written or directly supervised by founder Johnny Tabaie, then medically reviewed by our Medical Director, Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD, before publication.
What is Johnny Tabaie's clinical background?
Johnny has directed licensed luxury holistic recovery operations since 2011, personally guiding thousands of one-on-one client recoveries. He is not a licensed physician — all medical procedures at Sanctuary Tulum are performed under the supervision of licensed medical staff led by Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD.
Why is the Pouyan Method™ trademarked?
The Pouyan Method™ is a proprietary integrative protocol combining medically supervised plant medicine, IV therapy, HBOT, nutrition, and one-on-one integration work. It is trademarked and internally documented to protect the sequence and clinical structure Johnny developed over more than a decade.
How can I contact Johnny directly?
For clinical intake, use the confidential Enroll page — every application is reviewed by Johnny and the medical team. For media, speaking, and partnership inquiries, use Johnny's LinkedIn profile linked in this bio.
Connect with Johnny
How Johnny's Background Shapes This Site's Content
Most editorial teams writing about addiction treatment, plant medicine, or holistic healing work from secondary sources — journal abstracts, press releases, and interviews with clinicians. Johnny's writing process starts from a different place: he has personally sat through ayahuasca and ibogaine ceremonies as both a participant and an operator, planned medication tapers alongside licensed physicians, and reviewed thousands of intake histories over more than fifteen years. That does not replace the clinical literature — it shapes which questions get asked of it.
When Johnny writes about a modality — HBOT, NAD+ IV therapy, EBOO, or a plant medicine protocol — the article is structured in three layers: what the peer-reviewed evidence currently shows, what Sanctuary Tulum's internal clinical experience has observed, and where the two diverge. That distinction matters because early-stage or emerging therapies often have far more anecdotal support than published trial data, and readers deserve to know which is which before making a decision about their own care.
This authorship model is also why every page names a real, verifiable person and a real, verifiable medical reviewer rather than an anonymous "editorial team." Readers evaluating a licensed treatment program are making a high-stakes decision, and Sanctuary Tulum's editorial policy is that they should be able to see exactly who wrote the page, what that person's direct experience is, and who reviewed it for clinical accuracy before it went live.
From Patient to Founder: Why Johnny's Perspective Is Different
Johnny did not enter the treatment field as a clinician looking for a business opportunity. He entered it as someone who had cycled through conventional rehab, medication-based management, and 12-step models without finding a program that addressed what he came to see as the root causes of his own addiction. That personal history is documented in more detail on his founder story and in his personal letter, both linked from this page.
That background is disclosed here deliberately. Google's guidance on E-E-A-T explicitly calls out first-hand experience as a legitimate signal of content quality for YMYL topics, alongside — not instead of — formal medical expertise. Sanctuary Tulum's editorial model pairs Johnny's operational and lived experience with Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD's clinical review, so that neither perspective stands alone on a topic where the stakes for readers are genuinely high.
Every credential listed on this page — the founding date, the years of operation, the trademark status of the Pouyan Method™ — can be independently verified through Sanctuary Tulum's licensing documentation, publicly available trademark records, and the medical review board page linked below. No statistic on this page is invented, and none of the language here should be read as a guarantee of any particular outcome for any individual guest.
Editorial Standards & E-E-A-T Practice
Sanctuary Tulum treats every long-form page on this site as YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) content. That means each article is written or supervised by Johnny Tabaie from lived clinical experience, then medically reviewed by Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD before it is published. Sources are linked directly to primary literature on PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, SAMHSA, or NIDA rather than to secondary summaries. When the underlying evidence is early-stage, the article says so plainly. When a claim rests on internal follow-up rather than peer-reviewed data, it is labeled as internal. This is the same standard Google describes in its search rater guidelines for health content, and matches the reasoning in published E-E-A-T commentary from Search Engine Land and the Search Central documentation.
Johnny writes from more than fifteen years of on-the-ground clinical operations — planning tapers with treating physicians, sitting in ceremony rooms, reviewing labs at intake, and following clients through the difficult first year of integration. That direct experience is one of the four E-E-A-T programs (Experience). It is not a substitute for a medical degree, and this site never presents it as one. The complementary programs — Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust — are carried by the licensed medical team, the licensed facility, and the transparent authorship on this page.
Corrections are welcomed. If a reader spots a factual error — a citation that has been retracted, a dosage figure that is out of date, an institutional affiliation that has changed — the fastest path is Johnny's LinkedIn. Corrections are logged and the article's dateModified field is updated so search engines and readers can see the article has been reviewed.
