Sensi Magazine | Mush Love: Fungi's Naughty Side

If you believe ethnobotanist Terence McKenna's Stoned Ape theory of human evolution, the psilocybin mushroom's aphrodisiac qualities were key to humans' survival as a species. McKenna wrote that primitive humans' experimentation with high doses of magic mushrooms increased male potency and opened up worlds of possibilities, like ...

Sex-specific effects of psychedelic drug exposure on central amygdala ...

Psilocybin and its active metabolite psilocin have been shown to elicit rapid and long-lasting symptom improvements in a variety of affective psychiatric illnesses. However, the region-specific ...

Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms) | National Institute on Drug Abuse

Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) comes from certain types of mushrooms found on nearly every continent. 1 The mushrooms, which are also known as shrooms or magic mushrooms, are typically consumed dried or powdered. Psilocybin is part of a group of drugs called psychedelics—or hallucinogens—that have the potential to change a person's sense of reality, leading them to ...