Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

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1,658 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 27 May

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HealthyGamerGG · How Psychedelics Unlock Your Brain’s “Edit Mode” · 13 Oct 2025 podcast

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.

I'm not saying that it doesn't feel great.

What I'm saying is that in my experience, it doesn't sustainably improve things over time.

And in the worst cases, what it actually does is masks, right?

Because you're taking this psychedelic that is like changing your mood, your anxiety, your feeling of your connectedness with the world.

But the moment that the psychedelic goes away, you're back to where you started, right?

And so what that sort of means is that it doesn't lead to a sustainable improvement.

You're not actually fixing the problems of feeling disconnected from the world without a psychedelic.

The last thing that I want to talk about is something that's kind of fun, which is more of a subjective experience of how psychedelics work.

So remember that we talked about the 5-HT2A receptor, we talked about neuroplasticity, but there's one other really interesting mechanism which seems to be responsible for psychedelic healing.

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