Zhu said he was experimenting by taking a limited amount of the drug, or microdosing, in an effort to boost his focus.
/facepalm
Microdosing is not a thing. It has never been a thing. There is no science backing it. Any benefits are at best due to the placebo effect. Stop with this tech bro culture nonsense already.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style like this, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are? It degrades discussion, and we're trying for the opposite direction here.
There's probably something to this part though. I was just listening to a podcast about therapeutic uses of hallucinogens. But there is a subculture of "bio hackers" or people attempting to improve mental capacity.
- Implanted a magnet into my finger.
- Implanted CC chip under my skin.
- Look I'm micro dosing without any doctor supervision.
- Look at the stick of grass fed butter I put into my coffee.
We have, even today, unless something came out yesterday - NO scientific model for what psychadelics do to the brain. We do know that they can cause the contents of the brain to become permanently damaged. We suspect they may have some beneficial effects in unclear scenarios to specific brains. Thats it.
Research had lots of problems with placebo control in the past due to the illegal status of psychedelics. There are only a few studies that are properly placebo-controlled just yet. See my comment above. The commenter might not be right at what he's claiming.
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/facepalm
Microdosing is not a thing. It has never been a thing. There is no science backing it. Any benefits are at best due to the placebo effect. Stop with this tech bro culture nonsense already.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style like this, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are? It degrades discussion, and we're trying for the opposite direction here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good that you're not a scientist and the research is ongoing ;)
Some stuff to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924977X2... https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/aop/article-10.155...
I'm not advocating microdosing btw, especially just for "focus" to be better at your job.
Stop with this bro culture nonsense already.
There's probably something to this part though. I was just listening to a podcast about therapeutic uses of hallucinogens. But there is a subculture of "bio hackers" or people attempting to improve mental capacity.
- Implanted a magnet into my finger. - Implanted CC chip under my skin. - Look I'm micro dosing without any doctor supervision. - Look at the stick of grass fed butter I put into my coffee.
We have, even today, unless something came out yesterday - NO scientific model for what psychadelics do to the brain. We do know that they can cause the contents of the brain to become permanently damaged. We suspect they may have some beneficial effects in unclear scenarios to specific brains. Thats it.
We do? Which psychedelics? How do they permanently damage the contents of the brain?
I wouldn't agree with the notion of brain damage at all (sounds like propaganda) but what I can think of is HPPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...
Right, but there is some real research going on, which was what the podcast was about.
As opposed to some dude doing it because he heard about it on the internet.
You forgot nootropics and polyphasic sleep!
I don't know anything about micro dosing, but how do we know this?
Research had lots of problems with placebo control in the past due to the illegal status of psychedelics. There are only a few studies that are properly placebo-controlled just yet. See my comment above. The commenter might not be right at what he's claiming.
We don’t. OP is displaying scientific arrogance.
Placebo or not, it works