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Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests | Emory University | Atlanta GA

Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests | Emory University | Atlanta GA

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Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests

news.emory.edu /stories/2025/07/hs_psilocybin_aging_study_10-07-2025/story.html

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We should live in Shroom world, everybody will be connected by the mycelium, live long and prosper together.
- Yes... let the cordyceps eat your brain... become one with the omnifungi... let our will become yours... listen to the mold as it whispers in your mind...
  
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  Okay, sure, why not
  
  WE ARE THE ONE!
  
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  edit: double post
Forgive me for doubting any studies that don’t involve blinded trials… but this is just one study. Let’s see if it can be replicated before we get excited
- Oh, I am going to try to replicate this study. I'll hit you back in about 50 years if it worked.
  
  It takes you 50 years to transform into a mouse?
A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms,
Maybe my memory is wrong, but I had it the other way around: Psilocin is the active substance, but its not very stable. Psilocybin gets metabolized to Psilocin. Calling it a "byproduct" is kind of underselling it. Psilocybin itself isn't active by itself.
Quick wiki check confirms this. I always have troubles with articles opening with. I can't even read that as unfortunate wording.
HOLY SHIT IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER
Wake me up when once there are results of a well-designed clinical trial.
My understanding of the article is they're extrapolating from experiments on mice and on a few human cells in a lab.

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