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I used to buy his act too but once he started doing psychedelics and live streaming it, it became clear it was all just a scam

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Yes, that was it for me too. Because anyone who understands neurobiology understands how psychedelics work and wouldn’t bother with them.

Sarcasm?

https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/research/clinics-and-pr...

https://psychedelics.cornell.edu/

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/research-unit/center-science...

https://psychedelics-study.harvard.edu/research/

https://www.hopkinspsychedelic.org/

I do not get the point of this. Psychedelics work by activating the Serotonin 2A receptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10061-7

This is pretty settled science. So what is the big deal about taking a drug that affects a receptor? Will it cure anything? No. Because the body resorts to increasing receptor density for the drug.

Psychedelics can promote neuroplasticity, can they not? It's not just about their primary effects.

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