Ben Greenfield

So what I'm saying is like, I just know there's probably at least one person who's like, are you going to hurt a lot of people putting advice like this out?

I will admit that like, if you have an eating disorder, like these are not good compounds to be around.

I live in North Idaho, not L.A.

Okay, we don't live in L.A.

But but I do know of the phenomenon that you're talking about.

And I've observed it, you know, mostly in like pop culture.

And I think there are a lot of people on these.

I mean, like, again, like, if you're not losing muscle, and you're in your but I think many of the people you're talking about are on a standard dose, they probably are losing muscle.

My response might be a little surprising, but I think that's less of a risk than you would imagine.

Because even though at the standard high dosages, the yo-yo weight gain is definitely an issue.

Because if you go from me like super nauseous, I want to throw up around food and that finally goes away.

Thank God I can have a steak.

I get that.

And there could be yo-yo weight gain related to that.

But if we're talking about what I was just recommending, like microdosing, it's like training wheels.

If you have gone for such a long period of time being obsessed with food and you've almost forgotten what it feels like to not think about food all the time, and then you do something for four or eight or 12 weeks that retrains your brain how to not think about food all the time, and then you stop using that, you still maintain the recognition or the sense of what it feels like to not be hungry or what it feels like to resist a food.

I'm actually talking about this from personal experience.

I have for almost a year now mess around with these things just as self-experimentation because I pick a lot of stuff.

I've taken a standard dose just to see what that feels like for a week and it's horrible.

I've taken the baby doses and then just not taking them at all.