Extreme use of substances, analogous to bodybuilding culture, can lead to death, with psychedelic use at extremes also carrying significant risks. — Whalespan
Extreme use of substances, analogous to bodybuilding culture, can lead to death, with psychedelic use at extremes also carrying significant risks.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Well, it's analogous to the reason I used the examples of bodybuilding culture. I mean, people there have taken excessive amounts of anabolic and diuretics, and died. Then the contortionist culture, people would put themselves in the little plexiglass boxes to do... At the extremes, you're going to get deaths, and at the extremes - Right. - and one of the extremes is the sheer number of people with different biological makeups taking the same drug.”
Verbal pushback — no audited source on record.
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