A New Frontier For Psilocybin Therapy? Standardized but NOT Synthetic (TMS Episode 22)

The Mushroom Show

English - September 19, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MB
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Previous Episode: "The Deadliest AI Scam I've Ever Heard Of" When Robots Write Mushroom Foraging Books (TME Episode 21)

If you wanted to do clinical trials for psilocybin, you generally have two options: synthetic psilocybin (which has it's downsides) or whole dried mushrooms (also, has downsides). But what if there was a third option that took the best attributes of both? In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we are touring a facility in Vancouver that is developing a standardized version of psilocybin from whole mushrooms which contains all of the secondary metabolites. Is this the future of psilocybin therapy?

We're also digging into a weird viral video that shows a "moving mushroom" and going down the rabbit hole of the best posts on r/mycology.

Enjoy!

0:00 Intro
1:29 A New Frontier In Psilocybin?
13:19 Get Mushroom Powered
14:05 Best of Reddit Mycology
26:26 Outro