Moms who microdose 'magic' mushrooms say the psychedelic made them better parents. By Julia Naftulin. Three moms told Insider that taking small amounts of psilocybin, the ingredient in "magic ...

What a psilocybin microdose looks like. Photo courtesy of Zenchronicity. “We work in 12 different strains,” Nicole says. “And, yes, they have done many studies on it, some are stronger than ...

Moms who microdose mushrooms say it's led to improved mental health. As Colorado works on rules for decriminalized psilocybin, those who use magic mushrooms for mental health tell their stories.

Biopharma company Apex Labs Ltd. has completed one of the first take-home microdose psilocybin clinical trials, meeting all study endpoints over a two-month period with no adverse events reported.

For this study, Prochazkova and colleagues set out to investigate how a microdose of a psychedelic substance (.33 grams of dried "psilocybin truffles" for average body weight) affected cognitive ...

For van der Meijden, a microdose of psilocybin makes his musical brainstorm sessions yield “more concepts, ideas, and solutions,” he said, partly because it lets him “better understand and ...

There isn’t a single agreed-upon definition of a microdose, but some research suggests approximately 1/5 to 1/20 of a recreational dose; for psilocybin, this typically ends up being around 0.3 ...

Though psilocybin is illegal in most cases, growing numbers of people are using minuscule quantities of this drug, a so-called microdose, to alleviate anxiety, depression, and other mental health ...

A typical microdose is 0.1 to 0.3 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms, as compared with the 25-milligram pill of psilocybin that creates the full-blown psychedelic experience.

Magic mushrooms, computer-enhanced composite image. Getty Images/Science Photo Libra ...