DID YOU KNOW?

Magic mushrooms can treat depression

I first wrote about this exciting research way back in June when it was an academic report, and it’s now in the public domain having been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Basically, the hallucinogenic drug in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, can “rewire” the brains of people locked into patterns of negative thinking in depression. It improved the symptoms of severe depression for up to three months.

The trial found one 25mg dose of the drug, alongside psychotherapy, significantly reduced symptoms of depression in patients who found other medications ineffective.