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How does mushroom microdosing work and what are the realistic expectations for results? My only experiences with mushrooms were recreational “tripping” doses when I was in my teens, that is NOT what I want to achievehttps://southparkpsychedelics.com/product-category/microdose-capsule/
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There's the typical range of psychoactive mushroom dosing that you're familiar with. The smallest dose you need to feel noticeable psychoactive effects (a mild trip or barely tripping) we'll refer to as a threshold dose.https://southparkpsychedelics.com/product-category/microdose-capsule/
The claim with microdosing (depending who you talk to, but I'll give a general sense) is that doses below a threshold dose, lower than it takes to trip, have a subtle effect that's not so noticeable but still beneficial. The usual claims are that it increases creativity, mental performance, mental health, and a plethora of other claims.https://southparkpsychedelics.com/product-category/microdose-capsule/
I personally do not believe the claims are beyond the explanation of placebo, the scientific body of evidence is mostly using traditional, significant doses of psychedelics, and the way psychedelics typically work is by giving you a short term tolerance preventing you from repeatedly dosing. In other words you can't keep taking normal doses of mushrooms in a row without waiting a week or two at least. Otherwise nothing happens. So I don't see why doses previously thought to be inactive would be more effective than simply taking doses we know have the potential to benefit people (from numerous studies), and why dosing daily would work for microdosing but not for any other dosage level. I am a firm believer that the benefits of psychedelics come from the trip itself and its psychoactive effects.https://southparkpsychedelics.com/product-category/microdose-capsule/
Let's say you disagree and want to microdose anyway. Mushrooms are a poor candidate for doing so. You have to control the mg of psilocybin very finely to follow a microdosing program. You will never know how many mg of psilocybin you're ingesting, even if you are using the same weight from the same batch you grew or found in the same cluster. Even within a single mushroom the psilocybin isn't evenly distributed
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The only way to do it (and you still wouldn't know the mg of psilocybin, just that it's a bit more consistent) would be to take all of the dried mushrooms you needed for the duration of your microdose schedule, powder them, mix them up as much as possible (there are mixers that tumble the mixture like a lottery ball machine) and then you should have reduced any hot spots but it's still a mixture meaning it's not perfectly even. Probably good enough to avoid any unwanted trips but not good enough to get the same mg of psilocybin each time. Don't believe claims where people advertise the mg of psilocybin either. Nobody is going to subject every mushroom to extremely expensive and complicated testing.https://southparkpsychedelics.com/product-category/microdose-capsule/
This is why people usually microdose lsd.
This is why people usually microdose lsd. Even though dealers often exaggerate the micrograms per hit, a properly laid sheet of acid shouldn't have any hot spots. Most people think their tabs are 100 to 150 ug because that's what they're advertising them as, but drug testing has shown that the potency of seized lsd is much less than it used to be. Still the sheet should be even from tab to tab. Another sheet advertised as the same strength will be a different story though. You can only be sure blotter from the same sheet is the same strength and even across the tabs.
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