Michael Pollan

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2,844 appearances 8 recordings 8 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 28 May

Michael Pollan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But before he got interested in psilocybin as a therapeutic aid, he was an expert on caffeine.

I was interviewing him and he said, you know, to understand your relationship to any drug, you have to give it up.

for a period of time because you can't think about it objectively while you're hooked, essentially.

So, okay, I guess I better do this.

And I was writing an audio book on caffeine.

So I gave up caffeine for three months.

It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

Sounds brutal.

It was.

I was a daily coffee drinker, but I also drank a lot of green tea.

And the first few days were hell.

Some people have flu-like symptoms.

I didn't have this.

I just, I felt like I was jet lagged or something.

Did you get the headaches?

I got the headaches, definitely.

And I was kind of miserable and I had no focus at all.

It was really unpleasant.

And I was undergoing withdrawal.

Wow.

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