{"id":246888,"date":"2026-11-08T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/what-psychedelics-can-teach-us-about-building-better-drugs"},"modified":"2026-11-08T22:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:11:56","slug":"what-psychedelics-can-teach-us-about-building-better-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/what-psychedelics-can-teach-us-about-building-better-drugs","title":{"rendered":"What Psychedelics Can Teach Us About Building Better Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An insightful essay\/post about how distinct drug compounds can act on the same receptor to trigger very different effects as mediated by different signaling pathways. Much like the post\u2019s author (Aaran Vijay), I am very intrigued by the question of why these different signaling pathways lead to different effects and how understanding the pathways could reveal even better ways to treat psychiatric diseases.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Can we use psychedelics to decode the biology of psychiatric medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insightful essay\/post about how distinct drug compounds can act on the same receptor to trigger very different effects as mediated by different signaling pathways. Much like the post\u2019s author (Aaran Vijay), I am very intrigued by the question of why these different signaling pathways lead to different effects and how understanding the pathways could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}