It's crazy when you think about all the different kinds of foods we eat.

We just swallow and hope it all works out for the best.

Well, as it turns out, there are better ways to think about keeping our bodies humming healthfully along.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we answer a wide variety of your questions like the importance of a good breakfast

smoothie, what kind of scientific study I'd like to see performed, and we start

with an interesting question from Keene about whether there have been any updates on

the therapeutic use of psychedelics. So psychedelics was on my list

of topics. It's so fascinating. Such an incredible area. There's finally been some placebo control

trials. You say, wait a second. How do you do placebo control trial? Right? You kind of notice when

you're on mushrooms or whatever. But no, how about we anesthetize people,

make people unconscious, then give mushrooms or not? They have no idea when they wake up

afterwards whether they were on mushrooms or not. Does it actually change your brain? Does

actually do anything or do you actually need to have that component? So many interesting questions.

I wanted to do a deep dive. and there's a whole ketamine stuff,

and I really wanted to cover it all. Is there, you know, is the MDMA going to hurt our brains?

And there's so many questions that I just don't know the answers to, and I was eager to find out.

I get a lot of questions about it. So I bought the 300 meg worth of PDFs, a couple hundred articles on ayahuasca, LSD,

mescaline, microdosing, talk about safety.

So I have the research.

It's there.

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