Magic Mushrooms Cure Major-Depression in Study

In my book The Awakened Ape I described my life-changing encounter with magic mushrooms as a teenager in college.  Now scientists have begun looking at the therapeutic effects of taking mushrooms.

In a fascinating new study, 19 patients with treatment-resistant major depression were given a dose of 25mg of psilocybin, which is approximately the equivalent amount of psilocybin that you would find in 2.5 grams of dried shrooms, or 25 grams of wet shrooms.  This amount is in between the range that previous research has found for a positive fun experience (20mg) and the dose that study participants will claim as the most profound spiritual experience of their lives (30mg).

The shrooms had a profound effect. All of the patients had a positive response. A follow up study five weeks later showed that half the patients were no longer depressed. Incredible. These were people for whom all other treatments from therapy to anti-depressant medication hadn’t worked. Give them one dose of psilocybin and boom, depression is gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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