Microdosing is the practice of ingesting a very low dose of psychedelic substances, such as truffles. A low microdose is typically around 0.25-0.50g, while the recommended dose for magic truffles is 0.2 to 1.0g. The most precise way to microdose is to grind a mild to moderate batch of psilocybin truffles into a powder and measure out around 0.25g as a starter dose. Microdosing involves taking very small amounts of psilocybin truffles or magic mushrooms, typically about 1/10 to 1/20 of a regular dose. For many, this translates to somewhere between 0.1 to 0.4 grams of.
The first microdosing protocol to consider is one of the most straightforward; you dose on day one, take a break, dose, take a break, and repeat. This is easy to follow for the duration of the cycle. To try microdosing with truffles, you only need fresh magic truffles, something to grind the truffles, like the Magic Truffle Grinder, and a homegrown device.
Microdosing with truffles has the benefit that they can be obtained legally or even be home grown. A new study suggests that microdoses of magic truffles—the underground portion of magic mushrooms—can boost creativity, mood, and focus. Fans of microdosing say it improves mood and focus, but the active ingredient psilocybin is illegal. Truffles are on the menu in various wellness clinics, including Field Trip Health in Amsterdam.
In summary, microdosing with psilocybin truffles and mushrooms has gained popularity due to their potential to improve mental health and personal well-being.
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Might want to mention that all of these studies were on healthy people. Except for one study where 7% had a current mental illness diagnosis. Most of the interest in micro dosing is for treating things like depression and anxiety. So reaching the conclusion that its a “scam” seems very premature. It’s like saying antidepressants are a “scam” because they don’t make happy people feel even happier.
DMT, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms are truly remarkable. A few years back, I was grappling with severe depression and mental health issues, and was diagnosed with BPD. It wasn’t until a friend suggested psilocybin mushrooms that things began to change for me. It was a lifesaver, and I’ve been completely clean for 6 years.
Microdosing made my years-long depression, anxiety, and PTSD all but completely vanish in a matter of weeks. These results are too concrete and too dramatic to even possibly be a placebo effect. And believe me, I was NOT expecting it to work. I actually thought it was going to be just another in a very long line of different and ineffective treatments I had tried over the last 30 years.
I don’t know about microdosing, but psilocybin mushrooms absolutely do help if you take a couple 1-2g trips a month. I lost my dad a year ago and gained 40 lbs and just over all became sad and not myself. I hated my new appearance and I was just sad and different. I took a small dose of shrooms, about 1 gram, and it was such a great experience. I looked at myself in the mirror and felt so beautiful. My mind was sharp, I loved how silly I was. I did things without hesitation. If I needed to clean, normally I would just sit and procrastinate. But on shrooms, my body immediately moved for me to complete the chore… And happily! I feel silly and bubbly on shrooms. I feel weightless and content. Even if I feel sad… It’s like my brain knows I’m sad, but it makes being sad feel happy and you feel like everything is okay. It’s hard to explain. But yes, shrooms changed my life and I will continue to take a 1 or 2 gram trips once a month. ✨
It works. I’ve had a RADICAL change in my mood, less swings and I am vastly less angry. Also, my fiancé was on depression and anxiety medication for years before I met her. Since we both started at the same time, she no longer takes depression and anxiety meds anymore. Now, we did the large starter dose, then followed the instructions for micro dosing, and every few months we do a large dose again. And Micro dosing requires MONTHS of use, not just a one time event. Anyway, its a natural alternative to shoving pills down your throat from Big Pharma where you usually will have some kind of side effect. In our situation, it works and I highly recommend people doing it, but the right way.
micro dosing isn’t supposed to be a single dose ordeal, it is the practice of taking consistent does alongside practicing mindfulness. i took small doses of magic mushrooms for about 2 months and as someone with a major anxiety disorder i can attest that it most definitely changed the way my brain functions for the better. I no longer suffer from my chronic panic attacks.
Placebo or not. The 30 day microdose protocol I followed had such a profound effect on me that is still with me 8 months later. I was on anti depressants for years thinking the next one will finally help me and I never got a placebo effect with that. So for me personally, I can’t deny the benefits of psilocybin in any dose
I watched my friend suffer from neuropathy in her feet for years. Weeks after microdosing she hopping, skipping, jumping up and down the stairs like I had never seen her do before. She was much more active in daily life and she was very much happier. So i call BS, i saw them working with my own eyes. It was life changing for my friend and has continued to help her since.
I would just like to add my experience, number one I consider myself a scientific person also very depressed. To the point I’ve written ten page college papers EXCLUSIVELY on the placebo effect. Recently I started micro dosing with heavy skepticism because I had tried basically every antidepressant with higher expectations for it to never work. About 6 months ago I started microdosing shrooms, eventually found out like hey this is actually working I can’t put it into words but I just feel better and more importantly other people say my personality seems better too. I ran out of shrooms and what do you know those effects eventually wore off after a few weeks. I got more mushrooms and within 2 or 3 days I was back to “myself”. I’m perusal movies and TV again, going out with friends, communicating with people I haven’t in years, cleaning my house much more and getting more school work done. I feel like I’m one of the first people to assume something is a placebo but I don’t see how at least for me that is what’s going on. I am doing it much differently than the study however, and hey studies might just need to test it differently to find results. I’m actually taking probably more like mild doses daily opposed to micro, as much ground mushroom as I can fit into a 200 mg capsule. What I really like about the small dosages for me is that I was depressed enough and experienced with psychedelics enough to worry high doses might make me feel bad as the trips can be volatile.
I would like to see more longitudinal studies on microdosing. I’m not convinced of either possibility. But I think it’s hard to determine what the benefits are after one exposure. Self reports are always tricky in research. I think the placebo effect is evidence enough that humans aren’t always the best at accurate self reporting.
as some one who has adhd and has microdosed during work it has helped me focus better and gave me a little bit of energy almost as if i drank coffee but definitely didnt have the negative side effects of coffee. just kinda came and went and i felt the same after. i am unmedicated with my adhd but microdosing was similar too if i used a stimulant! ive done it since october 2022 and all ive noticed was while on it, it helped.. but once it wears off i dont feel it did anything else except help me stay more focused and maybe make music hit a little harder😂 (also i was microdosing psilocybin for those wondering)
Micro dosing and occasionally full dosing on psyilobin has greatly improved my memory after I had a major seizure episode that affected a lot of my short term memory and core childhood memories. It also in my experience has allowed me to manage my epilepsy without medication. Also noticed my short term memory being much more reliable. For neurodivergent individuals there is undeniable results that need more research
I have a plethora of mental ailments and issues I tried everything from pills, talking about things, journaling, self help books, working out, eating healthy and none of them worked out for me but I started microdosing and almost immediately I feel like I’m a new person! I experience life with a whole new presentness I’ve never thought capable of my mind. To be honest I don’t care what the studies might or might not suggest, micro-dosing worked for me and I recommend it to all my friends and family members who similarly struggle
I think it’s important to note that the science of psychedelics is still in it’s infancy in many ways. Research is extremely difficult to do in a controlled manner, and many studies are forced to rely on self-administration and self-reports, which are not the most reliable ways to construct experiments or collect data. For this reason, dosages used in various studies are not uniform, and may not be representative of actual use by those reporting benefits given the difficulty of determining dosing in the real world. Weed has a similar issue where the cannabis available for research purposes comes from a few sources and is not at all representative of cannabis being consumed by the public in terms of genetic/chemical composition or psychoactive effects. Additionally, there have been several recent studies showing significant effects of microdosing. While there is probably a placebo effect, I think it’s too early to definitively conclude that is the only effect it has, as there are lots of contradictory findings. Claiming that the claims of microdose supporters are invalid or more difficult to test because they are broad doesn’t really make sense. For one thing, macro doses of psychedelics also have a hugely broad range of effects, so we’d expect similar to come from smaller doses. Additionally, science is literally built to take broad phenomena and distill them into measurable quantities. The problem with this article is that it does not acknowledge the fact that this kind of work takes time, often decades, and that’s in a situation where the research is not nearly impossible to conduct, as is the case with psychs.
Started microdosing sclerotia of psilocybin mushrooms at the age of 61 to see if it would help with my lifelong migraine and a decade old rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Used the “1 on – 2 off” method. Didn’t notice any changes for 3 weeks at was ready to drop it, but my health practitioner suggested I continue for another week. And indeed, something happened. Now at age 62 I’m mobile again and the arthritis is as good as gone. The migraines have drastically reduced in strength, duration, and frequency. I’m not a scientist and to be honest, I really don’t give a 💩how and why it works 😂 it works for me. That’s all I care about. And since the sclerotia of psilocybin mushrooms, AKA magic truffles, are not illegal in Europe, I’ll stick with them 😊
I hope research continues in this field. I would like to see a study where they cover a range of doses from the micro to the macro. I would like to find out where that line is between the hallucinogenic properties and the medicinal properties. It could be that microdosing, as it currently stands, is too low of a dose to receive the benefits.
Hmm idk if this was accounted for in the study but I think the microdose itself varies from person to person and you can’t simply give everyone the same dose and expect the same thing to happen. There is no general microdose, only individual microdoses. Taking the example of alcohol, different people will have different reactions to the same amount. If we conduct a study where everyone is given the same amount, we won’t get any meaningful results.
I had been seeing two psychiatrist and tried many different ssri’s and additions. I had a severe depression that lasted two years. I cried 217 days in a row at one point. Once I started microdosing under supervision, Within three days, My depression was significantly better and each day got easier until it went into, what I call, a remission. I had tried tons of different med combos and my meds at the time of microdosing where unchanged for at least six months. Sometimes those new pathways need a lil help to get started.
Both microdosing and macrodosing have changed my life tremendously over the last 10 years. Each specific dose used as a tool to target specific intentional aspects( Got off of antidepressants and ADHD medication). So no, I don’t believe they’re a scam. ——> you also forgot to mention that these studies you’re referring to were done primarily with healthy people, not people who actually deal with mental health.
this is poor scientific journalism. That first study used doses of 13-26 mcg compared to 100-200 mg that is generally recommended, which is a tiny, tiny fraction. Then you didn’t discuss dosing for the second study… Also, these studies only discussed infrequent dosing of 2-3 days, which is 1/2 to 1/3 the total dosing that many people take, specifically people who were trying microdosing before it was a hot trend (which is admittedly an anecdote on my part). You completely failed to acknowledge the limitations of these studies (dosing, small sample sizes) and the fact that they only apply to microdosing at these doses, with these frequencies, with these durations. You all can do better than this. Don’t rely on clickbait and disingenuous reporting to make your points. It can reduce the validity of science in the eye of the public, which is an ever increasing problem, and reduce the credibility of this website.
I’ve tried microdosing on mushrooms and what I felt and experienced regarding my mood shifts and productivity was def NOT a placebo effect. First two times I could even feel it in my body and noticed really drastic effects in my day-to-day life. I could sleep better, my muscles felt relaxed as if after a full-body massage. I was inspired and motivated (and still am). But the thing with microdosing is that it builds up your tolerance fast, even if you take it every 3 days, so by the end of one month they stop giving you any noticeable effects. But I do feel at a much better place mentally right now after this month that I’ve done it. Make sure to keep a mood diary if you decide to try it!
I’ve always been of the opinion that an occasional big dose is way more effective than regularly microdosing, especially if you’re defining microdosing as a sub perceptual dose (meaning you can’t even feel it). I think light doses are good for if you want a creative boost but still wanna be able to function, if you’re comfortable with psychedelics you can take like 1/4 of a dose rather than a 1/10. I think most of the reason microdosing is so popular is people want the benefits of psychedelics while still being able to have a 9 to 5 and be able to take care of their other responsibilities and if you take a full dose of psylocybin or LSD you pretty much need a whole weekend just to yourself in a calm environment and nothing you have to do but trip and unfortunately that’s not practical for a lot of people. That’s why I think we really need psylocybin clinics that regular people can go to and have a calm environment with someone to watch after them and help them process the trip, this is gonna be the best way moving forward cause not everyone is like me and can take 8 grams of mushrooms and dance naked in my kitchen without worrying about my neighbors calling the cops.
To call microdosing “a scam” based on the presented evidence is extremely flimsy at best. First off, we know that the benefits from psychoactive substances can be extremely broad, having profoundly different (healing) effects depending on who is taking them and at what time in their lives they take them. So to suggest that the reported benefits are “too broad” to fall under proper scientific scrutiny only proves this point about psychedelics. If anything, it shows a lack of categorical understanding on the part of the scientists. Secondly, to suggest that the effects of microdosing are no better than a placebo at improving cognitive functions and well-being based on tests and questionnaires after only five hours isn’t very convincing: we know that even taking a microdose can be a profoundly disconcerting experience, for example when it confronts one with things one didn’t want to face about oneself. The real benefits can often be seen only days, weeks or even months later, as one integrates the experience and its meaning – even more so with full doses, of course. Five hours hardly seems to cut it. Moreover, to equate a sub-perceptible dose of psychedelics to a placebo can only be done by one solely looking at the results of test and questionnaires. To those familiar with the psychedelic experience, the difference between no dose and a microdose, and the characteristic affinity between a microdose and a full dose will be glaringly obvious: the innate character of the substance shows itself, even at so-called sub-perceptible levels.
@AsapSCIENCE Could you guys please do a article about HPPD (Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder)? I had it really bad for almost two years after one year of taking a full dose of psilocybin every week, I would increase it for my tolerance but never exceeded 5g of mushrooms. Once the HPPD started to hit me I lost the ability to think coherently or form logical thoughts which was terrifying and the visual snow/other waviness in my vision continued at almost full force as if I was tripping for year after I stopped taking any psychedelics. I was also on an SSRI when I did all those mushrooms so I was being irresponsible for sure but still I didn’t know how dangerous tripping that much could be or that I was putting my ability to think coherently at risk. I just want more people to understand how psychologically dangerous psychedelics are and I hope people exercise extreme caution when using them outside of a clinical setting!
Every single person i have spoken to that has micro dosed mushrooms or even had a good amount have said it helps with depression and mental health. Ive spoken to quite a few people as well, i have seen many articles of testimonies as well, i have seen research in to this and the positive always out weighs the negative which in every case i have seen the negative is almost non existent
I agree to disagree here. These studies aren’t really the best ones since they don’t seem to have tested for a long period of time expect for one that tested for 30 days which actually showed that it had improvements. We all can agree that one micro dose of any psychedelic won’t do anything. As you said yourself microdose is in such low quantities that you are not suppose to feel any physiological alterations. I myself have “microdosed” and while the dose was closer to 1/5-1/10 I feel like it still somewhat counts. I did this every other day for a week and thanks to this I was finally able to stop smoking. This was a last resort for me since none of the other methods that my doctor had suggested worked..
I had severe depression and didn’t want to get trapped in the pharma system with shitty anti depressants so I decided to grow my own shrooms. I experimented with different doses. .25, .5, .1, 1.5, 2.5 and 6g lol each trip has taught me something. I started breaking patterns. Doing things differently. Evolving. Yes they do work. BUT you gotta read and understand how they work so you can get the best from them. They are just a tool like a gym. You still gotta know what exercises to do to get the best gains.
The biggest problem that you missed is that your micro-dose isn’t the same as the next person’s. There are huge factors based on the person’s neurology, their receptors, medications, strain, etc, etc. Labs are too constrained by regulation, while people following a micro-dose regime in the real world show real results.
Back in 2018 I was suffering from extreme anxiety, depression, PTSD, and panic episodes so I started microdosing mushrooms. I did this for about 3 years straight following the 1 day off 1 day on regiment and honestly it changed my life, personally. I had used large dosages in the past and they always helped but microdosing is meant to be done long term. These studies seem to be very short term.
This makes sense and is probably why I prefer my microdose amounts to be ever so slightly psychoactive (I take 300 mg opposed to 1-200 mg). I don’t recommend people do that though. 300 mg for me can sometimes be slightly impairing and if its hittin harder that day then it can be a bit of a stressful experience when having your time constrained by other things/people (i.e. a job). And I’ve found that I need to be pretty intentional about my mood (and therefore my timing and schedule) the days that I’m microdosing. That may be more anecdotal evidence for the role of the placebo effect. Either way, it significantly helps with my seasonal depression and general low mood cycles. And if it’s just a placebo then I’m okay with that too – medicine is medicine. We really are missing out on how much potential good could come from actually harnessing the placebo effect. Medicine without actually needing to be pharmacologically active? Sign me up. Probably would be very hard to administer such a program though.
If youve never gone to sleep for years wishing to not wakeup, despite the trajectory of your life or the position you’re in being positive or negative, with multiple near success attempts to do so for your entire life, only to take some shrooms and not feel that way anymore. You have no right to say its a scam. Microdosing (and the occasional hero dose) cured my clinical depression. I dont even use shrooms anymore, and I can tell you its been years since i put a barrel into my mouth and begged for the courage to pull the trigger. It took a year of microdosing and using shrooms to give me something i had NEVER had; peace!
The biggest misunderstanding about psychedelics involves our endogenous response. For example when a standard dose of LSD is ingested there is an increase of endogenous 5MEO DMT of 1000%, and Nn DMT shoots up by 400%, the same is most likely true of psilocybin. This has been documented, but it is not clear what role inhibiting enzymes such as FAAH and MAGL play in that increase. We know from testing the spinal fluid of dying rats, that their endogenous DMT levels increase by 600%, which is a clear indicator that dosing psychedelics in any quantity is not the sole determining factor in the experience. This article is not well informed, and does not accurately describe what is going on when “neurology meets intention and purpose”. It is not simply a matter of exogenous substances in and of themselves.
26 micro grams is about 100X less than a typical micro dose amount of mushrooms. This would effectively be like suggesting a shot glass of beer does little when compared to a shot glass of water while a more accurate comparison would be drinking 5 pints of beer and 5 pints of water and seeing if there are any differences between the effects of each group.
My sister’s best friend’s son is alcoholic, and had two terrible relapses shortly after taking mushrooms in a therapeutic setting. Both times he ended up in the hospital, and the second time was in artificial coma for a while. My sister’s claim on mushroom and other psychedelics has been that it can cure depression and addictions with a single dose. Well obviously not for that poor young man.
It’s really hard to have MDD, I’ve had it for around 33 years (since I was 23, and I’m 56 now). You spend a lot of money and never find a solution. Always promising things, but never a solution. During that period of time, many of your relatives suffer because of your ilness, others die, etc. It’s super difficult. And of course, many commit suicide. I believe that it’s better to always continue living, despite the difficulties. You never know what you’ll live, and what you can do for others. Also, suicide hurts your relatives worse than your ilness. It’s better to live and fight, even if it’s for many years. Shows you’re a warrior.
One of your sources completely contradicts this article and says that microdosing does indeed improve the patients mood and mental health after one month. Anyone who does actual research on microdosing knows its not a take one and done scenario like you have presented it as here. Do you take anti-depressants once? No for most of them you will need to be on them for a period of time before the effects are noticeable. Same thing applies for microdosing. You also just come off extremely arrogant in this article. I’ve watched plenty of your articles before and you don’t normally have this attitude about you. Terrible take and presentation here.
The results of the study where they gave 4 microdoses to participants kind of feel expected. I didn’t feel any improvement before at least a month of microdosing. I’ve microdosed on and off, and I always found that I either needed to actually get high on a 1000-2000mg dose first, or microdose for a couple weeks, before I felt that the effects worked again. Then again, it might all be placebo
I was just introduced to micro dosing and I have to disagree that they think is a lie, I have been suffering from anxiety, depression, lack of energy, moody and anti social… and I didn’t believe this was going to help me. I noticed on the 3rd day a big difference, and i didn’t even realize that I woke up more energetic, in a peaceful state of mind, cleaned my entire house top to bottom! 3 hours, cooked, did a workout and could still keep going! Went to work in a happy mood that was noticed by my coworker, had conversations with clients and enjoyed it and was very talkative! So yes I truly believe this works! And has also helped my daughter have better relationships specially with me! This is a blessing and I will continue to use it
I must say I am unsure about the studies you linked in the description. In two studies, they only administered one dose, and in one study, they administered a total of seven doses over a period of three weeks, which was the longest duration studied. Only one study reported benefits. I always thought that you need to microdose for an extended period (e.g., 6 months or more) before experiencing any benefits. I find it hard to imagine that a single microdose would be of any help.
Micro shrooms every time I go mountain biking which is 3 4 times a week and the anti inflammatory benefits are very noticeable. I have C PTSD and find the Shroom Micro and THC Micro helps my anxiety issues without? I’m on the couch and nervous about going out. I definitely recommend Soaking your Micro or whatever amount of shrooms in Lemon juice for 3060 seconds before consuming it will eliminate the Nausea stage.
This reminds me of being prescribed Ritalin in grade school. I told my Dr. it wasn’t helping me maintain control over my actions so he doubled the dosage, but when I said it still wasn’t helping he told me that I still have to make the choice to be in control… I stopped taking the drug immediately and took more conscious responsibility for my own actions. I decided it wasn’t worth relying on placebo when it was up to me to believe in myself anyway.
I started microdosing a few months ago, and was really disappointed with the results. I honestly thought I’d been sold something that has no psilocybin. There was definitely an effect when I took higher doses, but the microdosing offered nothing substantial. Maybe I did get something of value, just microdosing it is ineffective. Thanks for this!!!
I started microdosing almost 3 years ago after multiple failures with anti-depressants . I too have been able to rebalance my life and outlook . There is no placebo effect .. if I don’t take those meds every 3-4 days my depression starts closing in again . I am grateful for these plants working so well .. and so is my doctor . He prefers to have me alive . I am in my 60’s and live with 3 fricking auto-immune diseases . Golden teacher was an excellent shroom to start with imho .
Hi @AsapSCIENCE, you’ve made a slight error when describing the pharmacology of psilocin. You described the mechanism as preventing the re-uptake of serotonin thereby increasing serotonin levels – this is not accurate information. You also went on to describe that psilocin also binds to receptors in the brain, which is correct. Psilocin acts as an agonist, or ‘key’ to the serotonin receptors’ ‘lock’, and have no effects on serotonin re-uptake. Hope to clarify this for others.
i was a depressed teenager who was addicted to cigarettes, on top of that i had so much anxiety and insecurety about pretty much everything. But after eating just a small piece of edible that contained magic mushroom, that freaking thing just pulled me out form every negative feelings that i had and after 2 weeks I had managed to quit ciggaretes. The thing is absolutely life changing, and remember its not addictive as drugs that sold by pharmacies
Could be a placebo. But I have found that people who try a standard dose of psychedelics for the first time especially psilocybin and LSD, don’t seem to notice any change in effects or have a mild trip. And that’s a standard dose. Since the high has to do a lot with your environment and thoughts I think that in order to micro dose you must be an experienced user in order to tap into that mindstate. Over time I can definitely see how that mindstate can be transferred to a sober state. You are what you think.
You know what else is the placebo effect? Meditation… Don’t underestimate the value of out subjective experiences because all of meditation and mindfulness is basically a big placebo effect There is also something to be said about relying too much on scientific research and ignoring your personal experiences – microdosing works for me even after the days that I am no longer microdosing – it has helped me gain space from my anxiety enough to see it clearly and it has helped me to accept feelings of sadness or depression, so I can let them go Remember guys: YT is often just used to make content – take even articles like these with a grain of salt and read through research papers yourself withou also ignoring your personal experiences – we don’t know what gets lost in this big game of telephone called Youtube
someone like me who’s very sensitive to psychedelics due to having a long-term meditation practice (over 1,000 logged hours of vipassana, body-scan, and nondual meditation), just 1 full gram of mushrooms is enough to send me into a full trip with hallucinations, where i definitely can not function without feeling an uncontrollable urge to hug anyone i see, roll around and dance, etc lol. for me it NEEDS to be half a gram or less (.3 seems to be my sweet spot) to prevent someone like me from going into intense, divine and beautiful (but not very functional) hallucinogenic states. which is exactly why the results of these studies can not be generalized in such a way to reach the conclusions he’s reaching in this article. a persons sensitivity can vary so much based on the pre-existing state of their consciousness and instead of a terrible clickbait conclusion like “microdosing is a scam”, a much more helpful conclusion would’ve been “the dose required to have a low-grade but effective experience on any psychedelic, will vary for each person, between a range of such & such milligrams!”
This article kind of explains my reasoning for why I have never done microdosing. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve taken shrooms a bunch of times and really microdosing is just for those who are still too afraid to step into the magnificent collective of absolutely everything that exists on both the conscious and subconscious level.
These “studies” are chosen out of convenience to prove your point. Nice job falsly advertising your studies. I’ve been microdosing for about 2 weeks and there is a tangible difference. Also its helping me overcome a serious addiction that I’ve been trying to shake for a few years. I wouldn’t put too much stock in this guys article the results vary from person to person.
Can’t say for those who are trying md from the normal mental condition, can’t even get why they even need it, but from the perspective of someone who struggled with deepest depths of emptiness, anxiety and suicidal impulses I would definetly recommend it. Even if your life is objectively screwed, it brings back such things as mercy, kindness, emapthy, joy of experiencing music, spontain desire to watch sunset from the roof. I had a long feeling before md as if I have lost something important from being a kid, and now I have it back for some degree at least) It’s not like I’m never sad anymore, but I can handle it now from this height) Definetly not a placebo, just my own opinion)
Psychedelics (especially shrooms) can work very differently at very differing doses depending on weight, height, if you’re male or female, if you’ve done other drugs and how often, if you drink and how much, etc… You really need to determine what your sweet spot is yourself. Besides, growing shrooms is piss-easy and can be done even in small apartments. I recommend growing Z-Strain as they are an aggressive colonizer with the same potency as Golden Teachers.
If you’re taking an extremely low dose of shrooms and expecting results, I gotta say, maybe up the dosage a little bit. It’s not about taking a small dose, it’s about the lowest possible active dosage for you, where you feel a certain very slight change in consciousness but not nearly enough to become dysfunctional, everything just feels very slightly brighter and anxiety dissipates. That’s what it feels like to me. I can work with no problem on about 0.10 grams. It also depends on the shroom strain and age, your weight and tolerance. It takes testing as any good science does. Now, it is true that certain private interests are attempting to profit from the active compounds, yes, obviously, but I think that’s a government and legislative problem more than proof that psilocybin microdosing is a scam.
The placebo group saying they felt something does not disprove that the actual microdosing groups felt anything. All it proves is that placebo groups always answer positively. A true test would be too administer the doses with the test subject having no knowledge of what they’ve been given or the aim of the experiment and then ask them open questions that don’t lead them about how they’re feeling mixed with some of topic questions to again help the relevant ones not lead responses
I recently tried microdosing as I’ve been battling depression for 25 years with mixed results from antidepressants and mood stabilizers. After a month, this is the best I have felt in years! I feel like it is repairing my brain and helping me heal from within. My family and work have all noticed my improvements. I will continue using microdosing as my medicine and hope the scientific research will be able to support my results so others can benefit. If it is a bunch of bullshit, I’m still buying it! But I know it isn’t.
I tried a little bit years ago, i felt happier, i didn’t tell my friend that for awhile and he said he had an increased mood for at least a week after taking it. Himself. I didnt want him to get a placebo as he didn’t know what to expect. Another time I took a higher dose and I actually had improved mood for months. I actually believe these substances to be more beneficial than say CBD and/or THC treatments
Microdosing sounded plausible in theory, but when you listed all the claimed benefits like that, I realized I’d heard it all before from every other snake oil salesman. I’ve heard it about CBD, wellness products, those stupid balance wristbands they used to sell at kiosks at the mall, and a thousand other places. The incredible, revolutionary cure-all that makes all your problems disappear…. doesn’t exist and never will, because it’s not that simple.
Read your body language. I respectfully question your motive for this article. I can’t speak for others, nor do I encourage overindulging, however, micro dosing improved the quality of my life through giving me insight to some of my personal issues. I found what I needed to and no longer have the need to microdose. If I need further incite or my perception becomes dull again, I would not hesitate to use a therapeutic dose.
I’m not sure about microdosing but I do know that doing cid twice a week for almost an entire year back in 2020 helped me a lot with coping thorough lockdown and helped me deal with past traumas from child abuse and my anxiety has not been as bad since then. Psychedelics definitely have positive medical affects. But again I never microdosed I always did “heroic” doses 😅
I’m curious as to environment of the study with LSD. It’s a drug that relies heavily on how you feel going into the experience as well as the present atmosphere, I can’t imagine that a cold clinical environment would lend itself well to that. On the other hand if it was a more open happy environment that may yield better results. I’m always happy to see progression with psychedelics but I do believe that if we really wanna see clear results were going to have to accommodate the experience better.
I have never microdosed but I have definitely Macrodosed. I am firmly convinced that the reverent and controlled super high doses of psilociben and LSD I took made me a more thoughtful, compassionate and humane person. They literally helped me to change the trajectory of my mind from one of self centered thoughtlessness to a more mindful, compassionate and empathetic one. All anecdotal experience, of course, but very very real in my world.
What a surprise that it’s being bashed like this…. anything beneficial that isn’t under control of the pharmaceutical companies usually goes down this path… I microdosed everyday for 2 months and have totally changed the way my brain processes information and emotions for the better. A measurable difference as i do not feel like the same person.
The placebo effect could be very real. There’s a guy named Joe Gurrero, who does a popular YouTube website called After Prison Show. He used to be a drug dealer in the early to mid 2000’s and he did seven years in prison for it. He’s since gotten his act together and built a successful YouTube website where he talks about his experiences and he helped a lot of other ex cons. Anyway – He said that when he was a teenager, he used to buy dried mushrooms from a Chinese supermarket and pass them off to people as magic mushrooms and they totally believed it. He said they got high off of them and actually kept buying them from him. I think he even said that selling those mushrooms was one of the charges that added on to his sentence because apparently selling fake drugs is illegal too. (But that part I’m not 100% sure I remember correctly, though.) He mostly sold cocaine and that’s the main reason why he did time.
I have been trying to improve my mental well being after struggling 42 years with depression. I was looking into microdosing, but this is interesting to see. I am not necessarily done looking into it, but this is great to know that it might not be what I was expecting it to be. It is too bad. It looked like the solution to my problems. Either way, more and more research like this will hopefully lead to real breakthroughs happening. I don’t know enough about psilocybin, but If we can find a way to expand the average persons mind to understand more about the world and how to treat each other so we are all happy, that would be awesome!.
Then this would be the first time I’ve ever experienced a good placebo effect. Also, the method suggested by the great mycologist Paul Stamets has a different approach to it. You said an average microdose is every 3 days, but Paul suggested 5 days microdosing and 2 days off. With this method I definitely felt better in every aspect of my life for at least the month that I did it. This scientific data feels similar to when weed was starting to be studied and people said that it didn’t have any medicinal properties…
I feel like they are taking too micro of a dose. I used to micro dose. But i was taking enough where i would start getting wavy visuals, not full on tripping, I could still function. I feel like it did great things for my mood. And it cured my depression, the depression didn’t come back till i had quit for about a year.
I don’t know, I’ve microdosed according to what I feel and it’s had really beautiful effects on my life. I don’t have to have the full trip to heal really painful places and can incorporate what I’ve learned easier cause it comes in smaller doses instead of one giant trip. I love the effect of a trip but I think both are helpful for different reasons.
I can tell you that microdosing cycles have helped me rebalance my life in a pretty serious way. Your studies cannot tell me how I should feel or what kind of relationship is possible with another living being like mushrooms. In other words, I speak for myself. Scientists appear incapable of integrating the lived experiences of real humans who are the subjects of their own lives, not the objects of experiments.
The study mentioned wasn’t done on individuals with illnesses of any kind, wich is usually a starting point for doing microdosing. If off topic studies are used for proofing a point I can’t really recommend this website to anybody tbh. However I like your guys approach so I will continue to listen myself once in a while, but with more caution and my own research in mind…
Just started my journey with mushrooms last month and I’ve already had such a drastic change in my outlook on life, my mental and emotional well-being, as well as being much more patient and empathetic toward humanity in general. I actually feel feelings again! I’ve missed this about me. It feels like I’m getting a to know myself and the world all over again, this time without being jaded. I can’t recommend mushrooms enough, they will change your life.
“A scam” seems very radical to say, but I’m interested to know how these studies where conducted. Are we measuring the right things, the right way? Personally, I have had great benefits from microsdosing, mainly that I feel more mindful, more loving towards my family and people around me, and more grateful for things. It sometimes makes me a little somber, especially if I was in a somewhat low emotional state before taking it. Therefore, I never take it to “feel better”, more to appreciate what I have and the one’s I’m with more. And I don’t experience being more productive or creative, that’s not the reason I take it. It has nothing to do with anything work related for me. Note that I haven’t tried microdosing mushrooms yet.
I so very much agree with this. I`ve been tripping on just about everything since I was 13, about 40 years ago. The whole microdosing sucks because it might not work at all, or you get these what we call “doubters”, where a person goes in and out of a trip which can be very confusing, especially for people who have not done it a lot. And then they blame the psychedelics for a “bad trip”. Also there are these “lab trials”….you are on some bed with doctors sitting around you and writing stuff down (that must really suck). Thanks for the upload and informing people, and I wish everybody a healthy, happy, and magical life 🍄🌏☮🍄
You got a lot of information wrong on this article. 1. The dose for Psilocin is not 2000mg. it’s more like 20mg. The dose of mushroom material may be 2000mg (or 2g), but 2000mg of the active ingredient is EXTREMELY high. 2. Hallucinations do not occur for most people at moderate doses of psilocin. Visual distortions do occur, but hallucinations and extreme visuals take place at higher doses usually. 3. 2g of mushroom material (not pure psilocin) is a moderate dose and will not last more than 5-6 hours. The only way mushrooms will last up to 8 hours or more is in very large doses. 4. Psilocin does not prevent the reuptake of Serotonin. It is not a Serotonin reuptake inhibitor. That is the way SSRI antidepressants work, not psilocin. 5. Psilocybin is metabolized mostly by the liver, not the stomach or intestines. Most of it becomes psilocin when it goes through the liver. I’m sorry, but you lost credibility for me. I really wanted to hear some critiques about psychedelics, but I wont hear them from you. I can’t trust that you know what you are talking about. You want to talk about the “science” of this substance, yet you got some key information completely wrong. You’re contributing to the spread of misinformation about this substance. I believe it’s important to have real, hard science when it comes to psychedelics. It’s possible that they could revolutionize mental health, it’s possible it could be a lie and it could be dangerous. In order to find out the truth, we need to be very careful about how we approach this subject and how we spread information about it.
I prefer the microdosing I currently studying if it needs to be done every 4 months or sooner. But, since microdosing became a thing it’s even harder to get shrooms. So, it’s going to be about every 6 months as a study rather than 4 🙄 as a vet with PTSD and depression that comes and goes. Shrooms got me off prescription drugs cold turkey no withdrawals. Controlled environment is key and I usually don’t do more than 4gs at a time.
America actually has a number of government agencies that know about and apply the medicinal value of the psychedelic hallucinogen LSD, either with a trip in a safe and applied setting or at least through micro dosing. Amsterdam still criminalizes LSD as what is the equivalent of Schedule 1 in their country, that it’s wholly dangerous, wide potential for addiction, and has no medical value. My conclusion there would be that, at least in terms of drugs, America is actually more ahead of the curve than Amsterdam.
I feel like these are all good points but you can tell this guy doesn’t have personal experience. I wouldn’t say microdosing always makes me “more productive” but it can. For me it improves my mood just enough to where I feel less bothered by things that would usually bother me, I see the humor in things more: I feel like it does something subtle to my thoughts that part is hard to describe but it’s almost like im able to find words easier and my speech flows better. In a way it’s almost like the insights that I get from higher dose trips are closer or easier to access and I’m able to remember my past trips in more detail. I didn’t think much of it before I did it but I wouldn’t write it off it definitely has benefits
here’s how to tell if it works for you and is not just Placebo (provided you’re not mentally predisposed to illness or such, so everything is at your own risk): – have a regular full dose of DMT/Shrooms/LSD or any other entheogen of your choice (or just dip your toes into the waters, any kind of experience here helps to actually understand the effects) – notice what’s happening, then give yourself enough time to get back to base level reality – have a regular microdose of mentioned substances – do you feel the come up, the same lowkey effects starting to build but so low that it doesn’t crash the party? yeah, it’s working – vary the dosage, lower or higher to whatever feels right and manageable to you people need to know that talking about “the science” doesn’t mean experiencing “the reality” behind it. you can feed your mind all you want but in the end of the day you gotta do the dive and see for yourself. talk the talk then walk the walk also if a Placebo can give me these effects, then isn’t that an amazing testimony to the human mind and how the mere subjective mentality of a person can change his perception and experienced state of consciousness?! it’s like saying I used a Placebo and entirely healed myself by believing in it. go even further and you won’t need a Placebo and can recreate your reality however you like. but guess what big pharma has to say about that.
im a depressive bi polar and started micro-dosing about a month about and i haven’t felt this good mentally since i was a teenager. i promise you its not a scam. BUT that doesn’t make it an end all, fix all ailments. but it ABSOLUTLY has medicinal use. nothing i have ever taken have had such a profound affect on my life. Me and my wife are doing it and my household hasn’t been this happy in easily 5 years. its not an end all and everyone’s body chemistry is different. it took away my 3 anxiety disorders related to bi polar. it cured the long, mild depressions. i havent felt this clear and ….. normal since i was 16
I honestly had no idea people mainly used the term microdosing in reference to psychedelic drugs. I usually hear it in a transgender context, where I have heard that some trans guys and nonbinary people microdose testosterone to avoid some of the more drastic effects of higher doses. Everyone’s ideals for their own body are different, so some people might want the deeper voice that comes from taking testosterone, but not want as much of the increase in body hair for example, while others might be perfectly fine with that.
Why did you quote a study that doesn’t use a proper micro dose of psilocybin? A standard microdose is at least 0.1 grams. The study you mentioned was measured in micrograms, which is MINISCULE compared to an actual microdose. 0.1g = 100000 micrograms. They used 26 micrograms, which is such a small amount, it would literally do nothing. Please do an updated version of this article, using an actual microdose.
The scary part of standing on a ledge of a tall building, it’s not worrying that you’ll fall off, it’s actually the fear that you might want to microdose. What scared me is that I really wanted to do it. The greatest beauty i’ve had is Microsofting. I don’t care anymore whether I live or poop. I accept my airplane. I will take the entire Universe with me. There won’t be any suffering because I’m taking you all with me.
At least to me, the effect of microdosing magic mushrooms is no different than a cigarette after a can of IPA, and it gives me no mood or productivity boost except a slightly lighter head. Microdosing, for me, is a worse way of wasting money than alcohol. My real life changing experiences/trips were all come from shroom macrodosings (or extreme overdosing), which showed me the 4-dimensional world and how limited our minds are, the reconciliation of my freewill and fatalism, and the mostly important– God showing me the secret of love and life. I also saw the city’s spirit rising from her incessant churning, and the simple plan of mycelium using psilocybin to better protect themselves and the world without hurting any creature.
psychedelics increase whatever you are feeling at the time. that is why people set their intentions before dosing. Almost sounds like you’re trying to say that these results would imply that taking a recreational dose of psychedelics is all placebo, too. At the end of the day, when you take a psychoactive substance at any dose things like set and setting will influence your experience and results. the same applies to your intentions, in my experience
When these tests were asking about mood over the 5 hours though, was it just asking on a scale of 1-5? Because maybe mood wasn’t quantifiable in such large increments but maybe if the participants were to actually describe how they were feeling, they would say they did feel just a little bit better, more at ease etc. Not necessarily more happy. Just a thought. And feeling more calm doesn’t necessarily translate to feeling higher in mood necessarily.
When I first heard of Micro-dosing I immediately thought bs for sure. But a hard trip can acrually do something for you. Imagine tripping hard twice a year vs taking a lab made pill daily that leads to dependancy and also leads you to taking loads of other lab made pills. But micro-dosing is basically experiencing no benefits, and taking something everyday, just like pills. But with no sode affects. Mushroom tolerance builds rapidly. You cannot gain benefits by constantly consuming musrooms. It is impossible to abuse or get benefits by taking them daily. Just trip hard and let what happens. You cannot experience this everyday or even a week later.
Double blind test aren’t ALWAYS the best way to validate something(and sometimes unethical, like when given to depressed subjects looking for relief) . We all have a different set of receptors and genetic predispositions and that alters results for these kinds of studies. Especially with something that has such a wide spectrum of effects from user to user. Placebo studies show that the mind can illicit all kinds of effects from non active compounds, the mind is very powerful in that way. That doesn’t undermine the effects of a substance which are very much real and can have benefits for many. And I believe that millions of testimonies can be more valid than a handful of scientific studies. We’re just trained to not believe anything is “real” until science has added its stamp of authenticity, which is a fallacy.
To be realistic the studies need to do research on subjects over at least a few weeks to a few months. Its not just about one or two micro doses. Its about consistently building up small doses. Measuring a single microdose means very little. And we already know the effectiveness of one or two full doses . The science is perfectly clear on that.
It helped me a lot of with my cognitive issues and even development. I can see a huge potential in those little mushrooms for all kinds of illnesses and uses. It also increases the neuroplasticity which simply means that microdosing can help someone to learn foreign things easier, faster and more effective. They are basically creating new synapses in the brain