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#103. The Incredible Power of Magic Mushrooms on Reducing Anxiety | Women's Health & Wellness

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A man with crippling OCD—one of the worst cases seen—became fine after psilocybin treatments with psychiatrists.
The hosts explore the history, therapeutic benefits, and political suppression of psilocybin mushrooms for treating anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. They explain how controlled psilocybin use in therapeutic settings can access suppressed memories while flooding the brain with serotonin, and discuss why research was halted during Nixon's war on drugs.

As heard by us

A clear, unvarnished starting point for why psilocybin keeps resurfacing in anxiety discussions.

The episode takes magic mushrooms seriously without turning preachy, tracing psilocybin from recreational use and government pushback to its earlier role in conversations about anxiety.

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Why you'd press play

When you want a no-lecture entry into psilocybin, anxiety, and the myth-busting around them.

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