People who microdose psychedelics say it boosts their mental health. Scientists aren't so sure
Small studies on how microdosing affects people’s mental wellbeing have uncovered a powerful placebo effect.
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Small studies on how microdosing affects people’s mental wellbeing have uncovered a powerful placebo effect.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/18/people-who-microdose-psychedelics-say-it-boosts-their-mental-health-scientists-arent-so-su
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00:00Microdosing is a practice that many people engage in outside of the medical context and they use
00:20very low doses of psychedelic drugs, usually LSD, sometimes psilocybin, and they take them
00:27once every three or four days for extended periods of time. I learned to grow mushrooms
00:34and started to start to make my own medicine, started to dial in my sweet spot for microdosing,
00:40and then within two months of microdosing I had this general sense of well-being that I just
00:49hadn't felt in literally a decade and a half.
01:03To date, the results with the microdosing studies under controlled conditions
01:08have been disappointing. We haven't seen very strong effects.
01:23What keeps me going is that the drug is acting on a system that we know is involved in depression,
01:28and secondly that so many people are using it makes you think that there's probably something there to it.
01:38You