Microdosing magic mushrooms has been referred to as silicon
valley's greatest kept secret. Tim Ferris himself even said
one time,
I think, that he personally didn't know a single billionaire that
didn't microdose. For me,
it's not about becoming a billionaire at all.
(That would be nice though, wouldn't it?) My issue has always been that I have seen the baseline of
my mood to be lower than what it should be for me to sort
of live life to its fullest potential.
You're probably familiar with magic mushrooms.
He's seen the bro in the movies or maybe you've been on a
few trips yourself. Today's video is about a different form
of ingesting mushrooms: Microdosing. Microdosing, when it refers
to psychedelics is the act of taking very small amounts such
that it produces a sub perceptual effect.
Psilocybin is the main psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms.
It is a hallucinogen that works by activating serotonin receptors,
especially in the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of
the brain that regulates mood, cognition and perception. People
microdose differently.
I know some people will just ingest small amounts of magic
mushrooms and they'll be very specific.
I don't want to get in trouble.
So I don't want to tell you how to microdose also if you're
listening to my advice and taking it as medical advice and
you're an idiot because I'm not a doctor.
I'm just going to go skip right ahead to my own personal experiences.
So this is my microdosing story.
I have always believed that my number one hindrance in life
was sort of the baseline of my mood. In 2015
I was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
I would say in the last 10 years
I've been prescribed a number of different medications to
try to manage my mood. Some worked, some didn't. Those that
worked would only work in the short run. In the long run,
I found their effects to be stifling. Thankfully I'm no longer
on any prescription medications, which is a personal choice
and one that I've worked with my physician to arrive at. I've
done four years of therapy and counting. I meditate every
single day.
I eat well (kind of), and I exercise. But still I have found that in
spite of all of this, there's still a tug within me to go back
to my default programming and I realize that to completely
rewire that default programming and it's going to take a
while. In the meantime,
I have the help of psychedelics.
I began to notice the benefits of microdosing almost immediately
certainly within a week.
The biggest changes that I noticed was a sense of everything
suddenly was figure-out-able. Figure out able. My social anxiety
started to dissipate.
I began to notice changes in my overall energy level. The
biggest benefit that I've noticed is that I've become happier,
but I also want to make a note that I hadn't changed or maybe
I had. The circumstances of my life hadn't changed.
Imagine what it would be like if you could just wake up and
do the things that intuitively you knew you were meant to
do without that inner voice or that inner critic inside telling
you not to or giving you a million reasons why it wouldn't work
out. I'm only four months in but I am telling you the fact
that I can even sit in front of you, in front of a camera,
and share this experience and create a channel and invite you
all into my life.
That's huge for me.
I could not have seen myself doing this last year.
I know that some of you watching today might be going through
a really hard time and you might resonate with my experience
of having a lower baseline mood.
Some of you watching might be going through depression.
Some of you might be feeling hopeless, this is not a commercial
for microdosing magic mushrooms.
But if anything in the message that I want to share with
you today is that I have been there and I truly know what
it feels like. You won't be there forever.
This is been a journey a decade in the making for me and
I'm here now, and I finally found what has worked. Whether
it's just magic mushrooms
or you know what, it's probably everything else too.
And the reason why I wanted to share this message today is
to open up the conversation and hopefully remove some of
that stigma
around psychedelics because I truly believe in the medicinal
benefits of this.
We truly can't understand it unless we first remove the stigma.
I want to know what you think.
What do you think of the concept of microdosing psilocybin
or other psychedelics?
Is it good or is it bad? Do you have personal experiences?
I would love to hear all about them in the comments section
below.