The Effects of Meditation on Anxiety and Depression

A lot of psychedelics are acting on the serotonin system. When you get a bunch of serotonin like dumped into the system, you have a lot of different brain regions that are all like trying to cope with life. You can deplete the amount because your brain is synthesizing those molecules. There's a limited number of them. And so giving it some precursors for the molecules that it needs to replenish is sort of helping it get back to normal.

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