Wake me up when once there are results of a well-designed clinical trial.
My understanding of the article is they're extrapolating from experiments on mice and on a few human cells in a lab.
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We should live in Shroom world, everybody will be connected by the mycelium, live long and prosper together.
Yes... let the cordyceps eat your brain... become one with the omnifungi... let our will become yours... listen to the mold as it whispers in your mind...
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Okay, sure, why not
Eh, beats fascism.
WE ARE THE ONE!
Did you drop this? /s
You're making it sound pretty damn amazing, frankly. Have you looked around lately? 😅😶🌫️
edit: double post
Forgive me for doubting any studies that don’t involve blinded trials… but this is just one study. Let’s see if it can be replicated before we get excited
Oh, I am going to try to replicate this study. I'll hit you back in about 50 years if it worked.
It takes you 50 years to transform into a mouse?
Or sooner, once the medicine kicks in.
Whoa. You’re a mouse now?
HOLY SHIT IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER
A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms,
Maybe my memory is wrong, but I had it the other way around: Psilocin is the active substance, but its not very stable. Psilocybin gets metabolized to Psilocin. Calling it a "byproduct" is kind of underselling it. Psilocybin itself isn't active by itself.
Quick wiki check confirms this. I always have troubles with articles opening with. I can't even read that as unfortunate wording.
Well, I know I've done mushrooms a few times, and as of a CT scan at the age of 27, apparently my brain isn't showing the ordinary signs of aging. Wonder if it's related.
You'd have to microdose regularly for it to matter if it actually does anything in humans for our telomeres.
Wow you sure seem to know one hell of a lot about the inner workings of this newly discovered phenomena.
Your sarcasm is noted, but seems daft when you suggest you'll live longer because you ate a funny mushroom a couple times.
Not sure where you read any of that in my posts.
Nuh uh. I've seen the Last of US. We all know where this ends up