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Is Psilocybin's Depression Benefit Overestimated?
MEDPAGE TODAY ^ | July 30, 2025 | Kristen Monaco

Posted on 08/01/2025 11:42:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/01/2025 11:42:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Here it comes. Can’t have the pharmaceutical industry lose the narrative that only their supposed anti-depressants can help you, instead of something that grows naturally.


2 posted on 08/01/2025 11:45:07 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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yeah, unfortunately, once something gets the reputation of being a street drug then there’s really no science devoted to it anymore. I think I’ve heard that more people have been helped with opium then with any pain reliever in human history but people don’t like to talk about it.


3 posted on 08/01/2025 11:46:43 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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BINGO!


4 posted on 08/01/2025 11:48:39 AM PDT by Nevernikki
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The flip side of the coin is that people tend to trust things that "grow naturally" WAY more then they should.

Belladonna grows naturally and has medical properties. Also if it is not harvested or prepared just right it can also kill you.

Nutmeg is natural, really tasty and, in the right amount which is much less then you would think, can also kill you.

All I am saying is be careful before you take anything that is not prepared by a professional. Whether it is a doctor or an herbalist.

5 posted on 08/01/2025 11:57:42 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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Nutmeg?


6 posted on 08/01/2025 12:01:32 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Sunshine while you can get it on your skin, Vitamin D3 suppement when the weather is cold and one is covered up. The only effective medicine for clinical and manic Deưression.


7 posted on 08/01/2025 12:04:09 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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and certainly don’t forget Hemlock weed and any part of the beautiful oleander shrub ...


8 posted on 08/01/2025 12:07:27 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ThanhPhero

I don’t think so.


9 posted on 08/01/2025 12:09:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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Yes, it is overstated. Go spend a month hiking our wilderness.


10 posted on 08/01/2025 12:12:52 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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Nutmeg.

In small amounts, makes food yummy, higher amounts can send you on a trip I have been told is most unpleasant and in even higher amounts can kill you.

In fact a number of the spices in your cabinet can do a number on you if taken in high enough doses. And I do not mean in the "Cinnamon challenge" way.

Plants are very interesting.

11 posted on 08/01/2025 12:16:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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One of our old neighbors put too much nutmeg in her coffee or something one time, and basically had a low-grade acid trip.


12 posted on 08/01/2025 12:16:34 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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Nutmeg in the appropriate dose is actually very healthy. Buy I've heard people in prison use it to "trip out" at the right amount. But I heard it's not very pleasant, so only the most desperate try it.

But you can't make a great pumpkin pie without a little.

13 posted on 08/01/2025 12:20:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I have seen it work in numerous po₫eople including my daughter.Manic Depression is not uncommon in the city in Việt Nam where girls aare taught from birth to never let the sun touch their skin lest then can never get a husband. Igot one young lady out of that 20 years ago and she has proselytized sunshine to all the depressedw omen she has known with 100% success. For them it is 11 months of sunshine and a month to 6 weeks of no visible sun during during rainy season. That is when they get sad depressed again. D3 is not available to them so I send a supply to each family I know primarily to prevent flu/colds during rainy season but for the two I know who suffer depression in that time, too.


14 posted on 08/01/2025 12:21:31 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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Do the research. Search Vitamin D and depressioin and/or Vitamin d and virus. Depression sources are harder to find because there only a few researchers and praticing MDs that have made those findings. itamin D3 is sunshine in a wee gelcap.It has kept me virus free for almost 30 years.


15 posted on 08/01/2025 12:25:32 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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It’s very interesting data.

Not conclusive, but interesting.


16 posted on 08/01/2025 12:26:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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Lions Mane works well on my spinal cord injuries. Good stuff!


17 posted on 08/01/2025 12:32:18 PM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Correct. Find out if big pharma did these “studies” to discredit something growing in the wild that has helped people.


18 posted on 08/01/2025 12:43:00 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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A little nutmeg goes a long way.


19 posted on 08/01/2025 12:50:00 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Shades of LSD. The shrinks keep doing this. Announce wonder drug. People use it and start killing each other and going nuts. Drug now tightly controlled and dropped from use . New wonder drug discovered.... Etc etc etc.


20 posted on 08/01/2025 12:55:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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