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The chemistry of connection

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Effects of Psychedelics on the Brain

With MDMA, you can really say like it increases oxytocin, right? So you're going to get more trusting and bonding. It massively increases serotonin. You are awake and alert enough to verbalize and share what's going on. That's great for processing trauma and working through for PTSD. With psilocybin, even though it only acts basically most of the action seems to be at this one receptor,. which is a serotonin two-way receptor.

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