Microdosing psilocybin can cause off-target effects by affecting multiple brain circuits. — Whalespan
Microdosing psilocybin can cause off-target effects by affecting multiple brain circuits.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But I do want to put a big asterisks, a highlight in an underlying beneath the statement I'm about to make, which is that pharmacology of the serotonin system just as pharmacology of the dopamine system is very broadband. It's a shotgun approach. You're going to hit all the circuits of the brain that involve serotonin with microdosing psilocybin. Although it has some selectivity for the 5-HT2A receptor it can attach to other receptors as well and act there.”
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