People who microdose psychedelics say it boosts their mental health. Scientists aren't so sure

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People who microdose psychedelics say it boosts their mental health. Scientists aren't so sure  Small studies on how microdosing affects people’s mental wellbeing have uncovered a powerful placebo effect.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/18/people-who-microdose-psychedelics-say-it-boosts-their-mental-health-scientists-arent-so-su  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Microdosing is a practice that many people engage in outside of the medical context and they use

00:20very low doses of psychedelic drugs, usually LSD, sometimes psilocybin, and they take them

00:27once every three or four days for extended periods of time. I learned to grow mushrooms

00:34and started to start to make my own medicine, started to dial in my sweet spot for microdosing,

00:40and then within two months of microdosing I had this general sense of well-being that I just

00:49hadn't felt in literally a decade and a half.

01:03To date, the results with the microdosing studies under controlled conditions

01:08have been disappointing. We haven't seen very strong effects.

01:23What keeps me going is that the drug is acting on a system that we know is involved in depression,

01:28and secondly that so many people are using it makes you think that there's probably something there to it.

01:38You

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