In the last several years, he and his wife, Ekaterina Malievskaia, a Russian-born physician, have devoted their considerable energy and resources to winning approval for psilocybin-assisted therapy in...
Indeed, the surest way to escape the Western diet is simply to depart the realms it rules: the supermarket, the convenience store, and the fast-food outlet.
Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states, one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They return with a new perspective and profound accept...
It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) .
Leary reported eye-popping results: ten months after their release, only 25 percent of the psilocybin recipients had ended up back in jail, while the control group returned at a more typical rate of 8...
Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmer’s Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan,
Normal waking consciousness might seem to offer a faithful map to the territory of reality, and it is good for many things, but it is only a map—and not the only map.
Not only does he choose his own words with great care, but he insists that you do too, so, for example, when I carelessly deployed the term recreational use, he stopped me in mid-sentence. Maybe we ne...
Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of a bad thing instead of too little of a good thing.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.
Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we’re eating animals.
People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.
Plant a vegetable garden if you have the space, a window box if you don’t. What does growing some of your own food have to do with repairing your relationship to food and eating? Everything. To take p...
Psychedelic drugs cause panic and temporary insanity in people who have not taken them.
Quanto mais branco o pão, mais depressa você vai para o caixão.
R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.
Shortly after Carhart-Harris published his results in a 2012 paper in PNAS (Neural Correlates of the Psychedelic State as Determined by fMRI Studies with Psilocybin*), Judson Brewer, a researcher at Y...
Since the body can’t break down resistant starch, it slips through the digestive track without ever turning into calories of glucose—a particular boon, we’re told, for diabetics. When fake sugars and...
So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power...
Some researchers attribute the increase in gluten intolerance and celiac disease to the fact that modern brands no longer receive a lengthy fermentation.
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