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Hey, short wavers. Chances are you've heard about psychedelics once or twice. And shortwave producer Rachel Carlson has been diving into the science behind them. She's joining me this week to talk all about them. Hey, Rachel.
Hey, Gina. So psychedelics are being studied to treat lots of different kinds of conditions.
Chronic Lyme disease, Alzheimer's disease, anorexia nervosa, chronic back pain, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder.
That's Albert Garcia-Romeo. He's a psychologist and psychopharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University. Albert ran a study using a psychedelic called psilocybin. It's the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. And he wanted to see if it could help people who'd previously had Lyme disease.
Because you may not realize it, but Lyme disease often comes with lots of psychological symptoms in addition to all the physical ones. Lori Unruh Snyder is one of Albert's patients in that study. She's an agriculture professor. She got a tick bite. She got Lyme disease. But it took doctors four years to get to that diagnosis.
Wow, that's a long time.
Yeah, and even after she took a course of antibiotics for treatment, she told me she still didn't feel like herself at all.
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