• Riddick3001@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We should live in Shroom world, everybody will be connected by the mycelium, live long and prosper together.

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Forgive me for doubting any studies that don’t involve blinded trials… but this is just one study. Let’s see if it can be replicated before we get excited

  • Laser@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms,

    Maybe my memory is wrong, but I had it the other way around: Psilocin is the active substance, but its not very stable. Psilocybin gets metabolized to Psilocin. Calling it a “byproduct” is kind of underselling it. Psilocybin itself isn’t active by itself.

    Quick wiki check confirms this. I always have troubles with articles opening with. I can’t even read that as unfortunate wording.

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    Wake me up when once there are results of a well-designed clinical trial.

    My understanding of the article is they’re extrapolating from experiments on mice and on a few human cells in a lab.