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.
Does it look like serotonin molecularly? - Yes, yes, yes. [interposing voices] - If I were to show people the chemical structure of serotonin and the chemical structure of psilocybin, it would look quite similar? - Right, right. [interposing voices] - They're basically taking serotonin? - A modified version of serotonin, which makes sense.
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Psilocybin is what's called a tryptamine. That refers to its chemical composition, not to the so-called psychedelic trip. [...] Tryptamines include psilocybin, but also things like DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. The tryptamine psychedelics very closely resemble serotonin itself.
And indeed, psilocybin in its active form psilocin are very similar structurally and chemically to serotonin itself.