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The Upgrade by Lifehacker

How to Get Smart About Microdosing, With Ayelet Waldman & Paul Austin

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking about microdosing: the use of relatively low doses of psychedelics, like LSD and psilocybin mushroom,  to improve mood, focus and productivity in daily life. We spoke with author Ayelet Waldman, whose monthlong experiment with microdosing pulled her out of suicidal depression; psychedelics advocate Paul Austin; and psychologist Dr. Ingmar Gorman, who specializes in "psychedelic psychotherapy" and substance use treatment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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

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LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHackers Deputy Editor. And today we're talking about

1:17.3

micro-dosing. Microdosing is the use of relatively low doses of psychedelics like LSD and

1:23.9

psilocybin mushrooms to improve mood, focus, or productivity in daily life.

1:29.1

We'll talk to Ayelet Waldman, New York Times bestselling author of the Microdosing Memoir,

1:33.6

A Really Good Day.

1:34.6

I hadn't been able to appreciate anything beautiful.

1:37.3

You know, not the faces of my children, not the dog would tree, nothing in so long that

1:42.6

that thought was earth-shattering at that moment.

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We'll chat with psychedelics advocate Paul Austin.

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