Hey, upgrade listeners, it's Melissa. We're working hard on some very exciting things for the upgrade.

So in the meantime, enjoy one of our favorite episodes. This is How to Get Smart about microdosing.

We've got a lot of people talking about the potential benefits of using psychedelics to improve your everyday life.

Enjoy. Hello, and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team

at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.

And today we're talking about microdosing.

Microdosing is the use of relatively low doses of psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin mushrooms to improve mood, focus,

or productivity in daily life. We'll talk to Ayel at Waldman, New York Times bestselling

author of the Microdosing Memoir, A Really Good Day. I hadn't been able to appreciate anything

beautiful. You know, not the faces of my children, not the dog would treat, nothing in so long that that thought was earth-shattering at that moment.

We'll chat with psychedelics advocate Paul Austin.

When you first learn to swim, you don't just go on the diving board when you're five years old and jump in the deep bend because that would be traumatic.

And we'll talk with Dr. Ingmar Gorman, a clinical psychologist who specializes in

psychedelic psychotherapy and substance use treatment about the benefits and risks of

microdosing.

I mean, certainly, I'd be ill-advised to be driving a car operating heavy machinery, as they say.

I want to say up front that we are going to be talking about microdosing today, but we are not

endorsing drug use. Yes. We are not here to tell you how to microdose. And as always, we advise you

to consult your physician and do a ton of research before you do anything involving any sort of

substance that could affect your brain in any way. Yes, exactly.

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