New studies: Psilocybin for depression

PsyPost via MSN, 6/2/22; Ananda (DMB), Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Studies shed light on mysterious process psilocybin can rapidly improve depression (PsyPost)

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Mushroom, umbrella, or vimana (UFO)?

New studies shed light on the mysterious process by which psilocybin (the psychedelic agent in magic mushrooms) can rapidly improve depression symptoms.

Up to 30% of people with depression don’t respond to treatment with Big Pharma's toxic synthetic antidepressants.

This may be down to differences in biology between patients and the fact that it often takes a long time to respond to the allopathic drugs -- with some people giving up after a while. So there is an urgent need to expand the
repertoire of substances available to people with various forms of clinical and major depression.

In recent years, attention has turned to entheogenic (that bring out the divine from within) psychedelics  (mind makers) such as psilocybin, the active compound in “magic mushrooms.”

Despite a number of clinical trials showing that psilocybin can rapidly treat depression, including cancer-related anxiousness and depression, little is known about how psilocybin actually works to relieve depression in the brain, gut, or heart.

Now two recent studies, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine, have shed some light on this mysterious process.

Psilocybin is an entheogen, psychedelic, hallucinogen that changes the brain’s response to a chemical called serotonin. [This would be true of neurons in any part of the body.] When broken down by the liver (into “psilocin”), it causes an altered state of consciousness and perception in patients.  More

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