Vince Polito
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52 appearances
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first heard Apr 2016
last heard Sep 2018
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This is an ABC podcast.
Microdosing is taking very small doses of psychedelic substances.
And when I say small, I mean really small, typically one-tenth or even one-twentieth of what would be a recreational dose.
A common thing that people do would be to take a microdose, take one of these very small doses every three or four days.
And it's quite an interesting practice because with such a
Small dose, it's definitely what we would call a sub-threshold dose.
People don't notice any acute effects, people don't feel high.
If you feel high, then you probably have taken too much in terms of microdosing.
That would be not microdosing.
Now, despite people not feeling high, not feeling this immediate effect, there are a whole range of different claims that have been made for the effect of microdosing long term in this way.
So people
Talk about improvements in their social relationships, in their general well-being, in health, in quite a range of different aspects of life.
And so I became quite interested in this because it's a bit of a paradox that that there is this kind of claim, although
the doses are so small and and the immediate effects are so low, but it's really become
quite a phenomenon in popular culture and in in the media.
There's been literally thousands of news articles on this the last couple of years and it's sort of been associated with a tech industry kind of image in some places, like people in Silicon Valley are are supposedly microdosing a lot and using it as a means to become more productive and to get more done, that kind of thing.
And I really was surprised by just how many people were knew about microdosing, were interested in it, and were already doing it.
It really does seem to be quite a lively phenomenon, this idea of microdosing.
And it seems like there's a lot of people out there that are doing it.
The main sort of key findings that we found were that really some of the things that people talk about when they discuss microdosing online.
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