Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

Notably, the effects believed most likely to change were unrelated to the observed pattern of reported outcomes.

Now, what does this sentence mean?

This means that what people believed changed is quite different from what actually changed, okay?

So let's take a look at another study.

So this paper is from 2019, so I thought I'd pull something up from 2024.

So perceptible drug effects were reported at doses of 10 to 20 milligrams, but not 5 milligrams.

This is an LSD microdosing study.

No serious adverse effects were reported.

Repeated doses of LSD did not alter mood or cognition on any of the measures studied, right?

This is what's really interesting.

The findings suggest that low doses of LSD are safe and produce acute behavioral and neural effects in healthy adults.

So y'all can look at these papers yourself and draw your own conclusions.

But what I kind of read from this is kind of what I already said, which is that when people microdose, they feel like they do better.

They feel like there are daily, if you microdose every day, there are going to be reductions in your subjective experience of mood and anxiety.

But generally speaking, over time, your trajectory will not improve.

So what my experience has been as a psychiatrist who works with people who microdose is it really becomes a crutch to help you feel better on every single day.

It's almost like an opioid medication where it helps you feel better every single day, but it doesn't actually improve your health very much.

There are going to be a ton of people who will disagree with me and fair enough because the research on microdosing is not very extensive.

I'm sure that there's a variability of people who absolutely love it.

I'm not saying that y'all don't love it.