Laura Hayes

Magic mushrooms, it does indeed.

And this is something that we have talked about before is the effects of, you know, psychedelic drugs on your mental state.

And this is an interesting study because this moves psychological, like psychedelic research beyond the question of, you know, when you take them, do people hallucinate?

But trying to look at the measurable impacts on the brain.

We've talked before about how magic mushrooms and DMT have a very positive effect with people with depression and long-term depression.

Exactly, exactly.

Nobody go out and... Consult your doctor.

Yes, yes, absolutely.

But there's a huge amount of research going on to see how these type of psychedelic drugs impact your brain.

So this study actually looked at psilocybin, which is the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

But they looked at 28 healthy volunteers who had never taken psychedelics before.

And this is maybe in comparison to a lot of studies who have tried these with people who have depression.

But looking at healthy, active volunteers, average age around 41,

and tried to give them kind of a high dose of psilocybin, so 25 milligrams, not just your micro dosing, you're having a full psychedelic effect.

And what they did is they measured their brain activity and their wellbeing both before their trip, during their trip, and then a month after their trip.

And what they found was, you know, by looking at, you know, MRIs and EEGs of their brain, they found it's kind of increased brain entropy during their trip.

So if you think of your brain in some way becoming less rigid, you know, less repetitive, less predictable in some senses.

Exactly.

It's kind of opening up these new pathways.

And they found this during, you know, two hours into their maybe four hour trip, it was the most entropic brain entropy that they had.