Dr. Daniel Amen
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If you use marijuana...
And you're young, there's a 17% chance.
If you're older, it's only nine, according to the latest research.
So alcohol and marijuana in the young have an addiction potential for sure.
If you're older, alcohol is worse than marijuana.
Psilocybin, that's one of the risks, although less so, it seems, than either alcohol or marijuana.
Well, and the doses in the studies, this is very important.
It's 25 milligrams in the studies on depression.
And many people I know who microdose are doing like 300 milligrams or 400 milligrams.
And so it is the wild west.
I am a fan of lion's mane mushrooms.
It is an opiate agonist, which means it increases the availability of opiates in the brain.
It's clearly addictive and it's legal.
And it's often shown and it's often sold in gas stations and places like that.
Well, I've had a number of patients.
In fact, I just did this great segment on KTLA in Los Angeles.
So I scanned Casey Montoya, who's the weather person.
She loves me and wanted to experience my work.
And so I scanned her and scanned her producer.
And then we did them a year later and they both did what I asked them to do.