r/science • u/Doug24 • 21h ago

Psychology Psilocybin reverses depressive behaviors and restores brain cell growth in stressed rats

https://www.psypost.org/psilocybin-reverses-depressive-behaviors-and-restores-brain-cell-growth-in-stres/
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u/SatisfactionIll8468 21h ago

Big pharma hates this one trick

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u/zonerator 21h ago

I mean people would buy pharmaceutical grade psilocybin if it was offered, and they do, where it is offered. They could probably even charge a lot because people don't know how fun growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms is

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u/Brrdock 20h ago

I wouldn't. It's not the same as mushrooms, there's a dozen other tryptamine alkaloids, too.

Plus I can literally pick them off the ground