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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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Research on psychedelics and trauma therapy: Activation of the serotonergic system

Research on psychedelics and trauma therapy is fascinating. Psychedelics activate the serotonergic system, but we don't know much about specific receptors. Serotonin and noradrenaline are neurotransmitter systems that are usually off during REM sleep, but psychedelics, being serotonin agonists, don't reproduce REM sleep. There are multiple serotonin receptors that have different effects in different parts of the neuron. Serotonergic receptors in the distal dendrites help dampen our response to the world.

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