Business Trip News: Moms are turning to postpartum mushrooms
Can micro dosing help new moms face depression and anxiety? One therapist, Melissa Whippo, thinks the answer is yes.
“As a therapist specializing in psychedelics for perinatal mental health, I’ve worked with numerous women who hope to treat their depression, anxiety and trauma with therapeutic psychedelic medicine. Many of them feel more comfortable taking something they feel is more “natural” such as psilocybin, which they don’t have to take daily, rather than a daily pill like Prozac, which is one in a class of drugs called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI),” she wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece.
Study finds that psychedelics encourage healthier habits
In an interesting study published in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology found that folks who used some form of psychedelic reported smoking cigarettes less often and eating healthier diets. From the report:
When only the responses of participants who reported that they used psychedelics at least once in their life were analyzed, results indicated that persons reporting higher levels of psychological insight from psychedelic use had somewhat more pronounced healthy exercise-related behavior (i.e. they exercised a bit more), a bit healthier alcohol use behavior (drank alcohol less) and ate somewhat healthier diets compared to those reporting lower levels of insights.
Australia opens the door to psychedelics as medicine
Australia has become the first country to recognize psychedelics as medicines after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the psychedelic substances in magic mushrooms and MDMA for use by people with certain mental health conditions.