Do You Need to 'Trip' for Psychedelics to Work as Medicine?
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
| 0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
| 0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
| 0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
| 0:22.7 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
| 0:34.7 | Imagine that you're going about your day and suddenly someone stabs a hot knife into your temple. |
| 0:40.3 | It plunges into your brain, where it reaches a spot just behind your eye. |
| 0:44.3 | If you feel like this is happening, you're probably having a cluster headache. |
| 0:49.3 | Only about one in a thousand people experience such headaches, but for those that do, they're excruciating. |
| 0:55.9 | Now, imagine that you took a psychedelic drug, and all of a sudden, your brain-splitting headaches |
| 1:01.0 | went away. You definitely want to investigate that, right? For science quickly, I'm science |
| 1:07.4 | journalist and author, Rachel Neuer. You're listening to To Trip or Not to Trip, |
| 1:12.5 | part two of a three-part series on the Science of Psychedelics. |
| 1:25.6 | In 2009, we were approaching the research administration at Harvard University in Boston, |
| 1:32.8 | where I was a visiting professor, to conduct a study on patients which suffering from cluster headaches, |
| 1:40.4 | because they have found by themselves that they could treat their condition quite well with LSD or psilocybin. |
| 1:47.3 | That's Torsten Passy, a professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at Hanover Medical School in Germany. |
| 1:52.9 | He's been researching psychedelic drugs for about 40 years. |
| 1:55.8 | We were sitting there in this big room with two fireplaces in front of a desk, which was very large |
| 2:03.0 | and on the other side were three research administrators. |
| 2:06.0 | So we were sitting there and we were talking with them about conducting a study about LSD, |
| 2:11.5 | but what happened is that there was a certain pause in the conversation. |
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