Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 27 May
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So we started giving thalidomide to pregnant ladies.
And guess what happened?
They started giving birth to children without arms or legs.
Like legit, that's not an exaggeration.
I'm not using this for clickbait.
That's like literally what happened.
So it is a huge teratogen, really, really dangerous.
Now thalidomide is not available on the market anymore because of safety concerns.
We see that a lot with other kinds of medications as well.
So another good example of this is antidepressants.
The efficacy of antidepressants is probably way less than we originally thought.
And furthermore, we're now starting to see things like SSRI withdrawal syndrome.
We're seeing permanent sexual side effects in small cases of antidepressant usage.
We weren't aware of those dangers when we were looking at the original trials.
So my point here is that you have to be really careful
about the safety profile that is found in a clinical trial.
And the key thing is, if you want that safety profile, you need to duplicate the structure of the trial because they're safe when a pharmaceutical person, when like a lab is making a precise milligram amount, which is administered to you, not some crap that you ordered off of the internet or grew in your backyard.
I have never seen a single person who uses psilocybin, even when they grow it, who is measuring the concentration of psilocybin in the magic mushrooms that they're growing in their garage, right?
So the safety profiles that we're seeing from the trials are very different from real world use.
So now we're going to get to two fun things, okay?
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