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Be~Love~Healing🌱's avatar

Love this article, thank you for writing about psilocybin! Over the past 7 yrs or so, I've brought this medicine back into my life for good. Consuming on a weekly basis without a doubt that it's not beneficial in some way! Microdosing awareness has been such a blessing to humanity. If anyone is interested, my holistic wellness apothecary creates organic cacao micro-medicine blending w/additions of lions mane, maca, cinnamon, rose, and more.🕊️

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Thank you!

Love hearing how this medicine has supported you...and that blend sounds beautiful.

Grateful we're all helping spread the awareness.

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Michael Housman's avatar

Love this! A buddy of mine summarized this well a few years ago:

Alcohol = poison

Cannabis / psilocybin = medicine

Fermented ethanol is terrible for our bodies and yet that's the drug of choice for most of the world. The others grow from the ground, are apparently healthy, and yet most of the world frowns upon them. Makes zero sense!

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Be~Love~Healing🌱's avatar

So true & the more we can spread this awareness & truth, the better the entire world will Be 💚

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Could not agree more with this framing:

Alcohol = poison

Cannabis / psilocybin = medicine

Thanks for sharing this, man!

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Lou Bell's avatar

As a Gen Z person who wasn’t heavily shaped by the war on drugs, reading that “alcohol is poison” and “psilocybin / cannabis is medicine” feels about as obvious as “water is wet.” No offense to you. I just wanted to clarify my perspective. I think the war on drugs was and remains a crime against both humanity and the planet.

Psilocybin-producing fungi have been evolving in complex ecosystems for over 500 million years. Their effects on human cognition and physiology may not be accidental, but rather part of an ancient interspecies symbiosis—biochemical signals that modulate stress, perception, and even cellular aging.

Instead of reducing psychedelics to pharmaceutical tools, we might begin to understand them as agents of homeostasis. They support regeneration, integration, and re-alignment—not just biologically, but also psychologically and ecologically.

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Psilocybes's avatar

Stack mushrooms with fitness and stay young forever! ♾️

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Two of my favorite things in life!

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Taft's avatar

Never tried this yet, gunna have to… :) like how big of a dose??

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

I do not have the courage to stack them simultaneously...I enjoy both, but separately!

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Psilocybes's avatar

Only as much as you need. No more, no less!

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Meghan Bell's avatar

My husband looks significantly younger now than when we met five years ago, and psilocybin was definitely a big part of that.

I'm 37 and have had two kids and still occasionally get mistaken for much younger, which I also attribute largely to psilocybin. I've had cuts heal rapidly during big trips as well, but always when I mixed psilocybin with other medicinal plants (turmeric, black pepper, chamomile, lemon + psilocybin and Lion's Mane triggers more healing than psilocybin alone).

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

That’s incredible!

I love hearing how the medicine has supported you both. The healing synergy with other plants is fascinating too. I heard an eerily similar, fascinating story about someone healing a cut instantly during a Peyote ceremony once. We are just beginning to understand the true power of these medicines.

Thanks for reading & sharing this, Meghan!

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Meghan Bell's avatar

I also had an ingrown toenail heal beautifully after mushrooms. Extremely helpful!

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Meghan Bell's avatar

Yeah -- I sliced a chunk of my thumb off with a blender blade and it healed more after one night of mushrooms (4.5 grams) than it did in the entire three weeks prior. At one point, I could see the scab lifting and shrinking. I have a faint scar, but pretty mild given how nasty the cut was.

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Fascinating. And also, sounds incredibly painful! Glad you are ok. What a wild medicine we are only beginning to understand.

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JD's avatar

"A way to relate to aging with curiosity instead of panic." At 74, that's a message I need to hear.

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Happy it landed, JD!

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Nature 🌲's avatar

“ Anyone who’s taken a hero dose with the Mushroom — as I have, many times — knows: one of the first things to go is time. Our understanding of it is shattered. We enter a realm where time simply…isn’t.”

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Enjoy your viewpoint.

Question 🙋🏻‍♀️ : can mushrooms be harmful to some people’s hearts? ❤️

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Thanks for the kind words!

And yes...while very rare, mushrooms can increase heart rate & blood pressure, which might be risky for people with preexisting heart conditions. Always best to check with a doctor if there's any concern.

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N M's avatar

Woah they even grew back hair. Sign me up now.

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

The benefits are endless!

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Tara Rae Behr's avatar

Great article! Love it.

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Thanks so much, Tara!

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Ajd's avatar

"Psilocybin won’t offer immortality. But it might offer grace. Surrender."

Love it! Thanks for this🙏

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Grand Schemes's avatar

Another one ☝🏽

I love It❗️

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Appreciate this!

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Chris Schumerth's avatar

Zero percent surprising...but important.

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Andrew M. Weisse's avatar

Hell yeah.

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