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Microdosing Q&A with James Fadiman

Psychedelic Medicine Podcast with Dr. Lynn Marie Morski

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What's the Difference Between Microdosing and Psychedelics?

Nate Silver: If you're taking a substance which predominantly affects your brain, height and weight have nothing to do with it. He says that's the way he was talking for many years before research proved him wrong. "With microdosing that's just not an issue"

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Speaker 2
And after those 30 days when people would stop, would they redo that
Speaker 1
10 cycles? No, they would pretty much do whatever they thought worked best for them. It's more like what's the correct portion of food, which is it's obviously individual. And there are also another protocol out there from Paul Stamets, who knows more about mushrooms than anybody in the universe. And he suggests taking it for five days and then taking two days off. And we don't have enough reports so that we know the difference. So Paul and I actually have a study going where people decide which protocol they're going to take. And our guess between us is there won't be that much difference. Interesting.
Speaker 2
So yours would essentially be more cost
Speaker 1
effective. Exactly. I accused Paul of his protocol because he has access to more mushrooms.
Speaker 2
True. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1
Oh, wait, wait, let's go back to wait and whatever it was. Oh, yeah, wait, Nate. Wait, Nate. Wait, Nate. It turns out, imagine you're standing there and you weigh a hundred and mail here, 175 pounds. You now then, for reasons only known to you, you either beef up or get fat. You now weigh 275 pounds. How much bigger is your brain? It turns out it's actually the same size. So if you're taking a substance which predominantly affects your brain, height and weight have nothing to do with it. Now that was the way I was talking for many years and getting snarls from some of my psychodynamic you know, pharmacological friends. But fortunately somebody actually did an article where they compared studies which did give a varied dose depending on weight versus studies that didn't. And what's wonderful in psychedelic science is you can now do research. And what they found out is there was no difference. So unless your brain is changing weight very rapidly and also what we're talking about such small amounts that all those issues which usually are based on when you have the issues of things changing depending on your weight, we're usually talking about unnecessary and unwanted side effects. With microdosing that's just not an issue.
Speaker 2
All right.

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