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Psilocybin shows promise as anti-aging therapy

https://neurosciencenews.com/psilocybin-longevity-aging-29425/
71•joak•7h ago

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esseph•6h ago
I'm not actually interested in anti-aging, but this is still interesting!
yieldcrv•5h ago
Just got to get it approved for anything and …. well everything will be the same. I’ve seen so many vendors selling professionally packed psilocybin. I’m like “this is like Lion’s Mane..?” Nope, just drugs!

But at least you can talk about it with your family and coworkers more casually

defrost•6h ago
See Also:

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readthenotes1•5h ago
This is exactly what the world needs, a bunch of tripping boomers showing us just how wrecked the pension systems are!
surfingdino•3h ago
What "assisted dying" legislation is being introduced for. Start with "humane approach to suffering" end up with "right, you have no savings, and you have been taking your pension for way too long, we suggest a humane termination, here's your goodbye pill"
beardyw•4h ago
We need drugs to help people understand they are mortal.
globular-toast•2h ago
I used to think I was "awake" because I became intensely aware of my mortality in my early 20s. But actually I feel like that's the norm, these days.

Gen Z seem to take "YOLO" seriously from a young age. Nobody is planning for anything beyond their own lifetimes. Some people still can't resist their biological imperative and have kids, but they're all basically YOLOing their lifestyles and their actions, if not their words, are saying "not my problem, you'll figure it out when I'm gone".

So, yeah, be aware you won't be here forever, but what we need is for people to leave the damn place in a better state than they found it, or at least not worse.

OKRainbowKid•1h ago
Perhaps that's a result of being born into a world with (unprecedented?) amounts of uncertainty.

Climate change, automation threatening the value of human labor, rise of authoritarianism, "the West" losing it's hegemonic status, wars, genocides.

Hard to make long term plans for your life when the world is changing rapidly and we don't even know how it will look like in 10 years.

sollewitt•3h ago
They gave the mice 15mg, which is about a low-medium dose for a human. But humans weigh about 2000 times what mice do, so the effects were observed at about 2k times a reasonable dose.

1) Those mice must have been completely out of it. 2) This probably isn’t helpful to humans unless given under sedation. Or maybe that extreme a dose is equivalent to sedation, I’m not sure anyone has taken 30 _grams_ of psilocybin to tell us?

pas•3h ago
30 grams of pure psilocybin? that requires eating 3 kilograms of mushrooms, right? usually it's 1% (or less) of dried mass.

well, actually more "doable" than initially I have assumed, but it would quickly lead to vomiting and a pretty guaranteed bad trip, well before ingesting enough.

also interestingly LD50 is 280 mg/kg.

pjerem•3h ago
I’m not an expert so I’ll just ask questions but IIRC, there is no deadly dose of psylocybin.

I would imagine that at some point the effects would plateau. Of course you would be pretty far away in space in multiple dimensions at the same time.

I would be surprised, if this plateau exists, that nobody would have reached it.

In psychedelics space, it’s not unheard of people accidentally taking 100-1000x the expected dose and having the best (or worse) time of their life without further health issues.

Also it seems that set&setting is far more important for the experience than the actual dose.

coffeebeqn•2h ago
You’d probably do profound psychological damage to yourself. It’s not deadly but that doesn’t mean it won’t affect you permanently to be stuck in some kind of a hell for what will feel like an eternity
sampl3username•1h ago
Some people have accidentally taken several milligrams of LSD, whose full active dose is 100 ug, and they are fine. Every molecule's effects saturates at some point.
mtlmtlmtlmtl•37m ago
Yes, some people are fine, and some people are not fine at all. Even Terence Mckenna had at least one extremely bad trip(that we know of) on mushrooms that drove him to quit taking them for the rest of his life. That was with a lifetime of experience taking mushrooms and other psychedelics, and at a dose several orders of magntiude lower than the dose suggested by this paper.

And this is not a one-off thing, but a monthly regimen. So we're talking about taking a dose that's way beyond heroic, every month, for the rest of your life. That's so far outside the realm of responsible psychedelic use, I don't think any human has even come close to attempting it. The only thing that's for certain is there's no way of knowing what the psychological effects would be, but I have a hard time believing it wouldn't get extremely ugly.

funnym0nk3y•3h ago
In general mice need larger doses of most medication candidates. AFAIK this is because they have a faster metabolism compared to humans. In addition I don't think there is a overdose risk with psychedelics.
contrarian1234•3h ago
I have no personal experience with mushrooms, but I never understood why placebo trials aren't done while the patients are asleep.

Just choose research subjects that don't remember their dreams and who sleep a solid 8 hours

I think a trip is much shorter than 8 hours and by the time you wake up you wouldn't be able to tell the difference

bubblyworld•3h ago
It's very difficult to sleep under the influence of a moderate psilocybin dose. Or any other of the classic psychedelics for that matter, like LSD or mescaline.

I'm not sure what the mechanism is but they definitely have a stimulant-like feel sometimes (especially LSD).

ddalex•2h ago
So you have it right, just need to take it in the morning before going to work
JoeyJoJoJr•3h ago
I don’t really remember my dreams anymore, but if I go to bed having consumed weed (or one time, a light dose of mushrooms) I end up having a psychedelic version of fever dreams - extremely intense visualisations of thought structures that just keep folding out of themselves, that appear otherwise unfathomly huge and intricate. It’s quite uncomfortable wanting to sleep and rest from your thoughts but the substance won’t let you.
canogat•2h ago
I grew some mushrooms at home for the first time. Ate one at 8pm at a concert tonight. Its now 3am and despite taking melatonin, I cannot get to sleep.
cyann•2h ago
Melatonin is effective ~5 hours later. No need to take more than 0.3 mg.

What you should try is L-Theanine just before going to sleep, it's effective against Caffeine, not sure about Psilocybin.

coffeebeqn•2h ago
That’s normal. Best to just relax maybe have some food/drink and eventually you’ll sleep but it’s not a party drug if you’re gonna work the next day or something
oc1•53m ago
It's not toxic so someone could try it.
jyounker•16m ago
Across species dose adjustment is based on surface area rather than mass.

Mass is proportional to volume. Volume increases super-linearly with respect to area. Therefore area increases sub-linearly compared to volume. Therefore dose increases sub-linearly with respect to volume.

tinco•3h ago
Wouldn't this much psycobylin severely affect your personality?

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