Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds.
Professor Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies.
Read moreEating Disorders and Psychedelics
In a survey of over 5,200 people surveyed about their eating disorders, slightly more than 1000 said they’d used psychedelics in the last 12 months — and a qualitative analysis of responses from 200 of those participants, published in Journal of Eating Disorders, suggests that the drugs helped them.
Read morePsychedelics: Risks and Benefits
Public health professional and psychedelic harm reduction advocate Kristin Nash, whose college-aged son died while under the influence of psilocybin and LSD, argues that psychedelic risks must be made clear to the public.
Psilocybin Extends Cellular Lifespan
This research paper shows the first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan and psilocybin treatment promotes increased longevity in aged mice, suggesting that psilocybin may be a potent geroprotective agent.
Read morePsilocybin, Brain Health and Longevity
In the second wave of psychedelic research, there are multiple trials taking place across the world.
This includes looking into their potential use to treat end-of-life anxiety and depression in the terminally ill (at the US’s John Hopkins University and NYU), for smoking cessation, alcoholism, anorexia, OCD, asthma, longevity and pain syndromes, as well as seven separate trials worldwide into the use of psilocybin to treat depression.
Read morePsychedelic Tourism
Professor Ribas-Casasayas discusses perspectives on psychedelics from Latin American.
Read moreJurema
Interestingly, they were extracting it from a plant called jurema-preta (Mimosa tenuiflora), rather than the DMT found in chacruna used in ayahuasca.
Read moreDMT and the Nature of Reality
n this episode of Brainforest Café, dive deep into the profound mystery of DMT, exploring why this simple molecule has such astonishing effects on the human mind.
Benefits of Meditation
Meditation helps us connect with and support others, too!
Read moreTo React or Not
The Importance of Suffering: Book Review
Suffering tells us what’s really important to us, and our approach to it tells us what we’re really made of. Check out this book review for “The Importance of Suffering”.
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