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The US Food and Drug Administration has granted a group of researchers approval to proceed with the use of the controversial drug psilocybin, a psychedelic compound naturally produced in about 200 species of mushrooms, to treat patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression. This comes as welcome news for researchers that study psychedelic drugs, as current drug laws inhibit the study into the potential medical effects that the forbidden fungus may have to offer.
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First it’s marijuana medicine, now it’s psychedelic mushrooms boosting the brain. The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms (which are illegal in most places) decreases brain activity, meaning that information flows more freely in a brain on mushrooms.

Researcher Robin Carhart-Harris says, "There is increasing evidence that the regions affected are responsible for giving us our sense of self. In other words, the regions affected make up what some people call our ‘ego.’ That activity decreases in the ‘ego-network’ supports what people often say about psychedelics, that they temporarily ‘dissolve the ego.’"
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Those hallucinogenic mushrooms may be tempting (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), but beware: A single high dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60% of the 51 participants in a new study.
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People have been eating mushrooms for millennia–the iceman Oetzi even had some dried ones with him when he died. There may be ways for us to boost our immune systems and one of these may be by eating mushrooms. And we can increase our brainpower by eating berries. Hey, these are better than some of the things we could be eating!

It’s not too late to change your eating habits (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), and mushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now scientists have conducted a study showing that white button mushrooms enhanced the activity of critical cells in the body’s immune system. In the United States, white button mushrooms represent 90% of the total mushrooms consumed.
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