Microdosing LSD In The TV Show Limitless By James Fadiman

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Microdosing LSD is trending in Silicon Valley, and like the hero in the TV show Limitless, these microdosers are dropping acid in the attempt to increase IQ and turn themselves into super genius’. Microdosing is the process of taking 10-20 micrograms of LSD, roughly a tenth of a normal full dosage. The concept was introduced to the public at large by James Fadiman in 2011 at a conference on psychedelics in which he presented data collected from self-reports of LSD micordosers. Five years prior, Fadiman had sent out instructions on the technique of microdosing and requested email responses as to the results. Though responses come from around the world, he notes a robust and consistent stream flowing in from the San Francisco Bay area, with a typical profile he refers to as “übersmart twenty something" dealing with tech solutions. …show more content…

It's as if messages are passing through their body more easily," Fadiman told Motherboard Vice. Though Fadiman isn’t conducting formal research, he has observed a lot of consistent results. "This is total guesswork,” he say’s. “But so many different conditions that I've seen are improved, it looks like it rebalances those pistons which are not in balance. This may be in your central nervous system, it may be the brain stem, it may be that it's improving function of mitochondria. One woman who had painful, crampy periods started microdosing and when her period came, she had no problems." Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelics Studies, has done a lot of scientific research on LSD and has said that microdosing LSD is enough to make one “feel a little bit of energy lift, a little bit of insight, but not so much that you are

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