{"id":87521,"date":"2019-02-07T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/drug-microdosing-effects-may-not-measure-up-to-big-expectations"},"modified":"2019-02-07T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:42:20","slug":"drug-microdosing-effects-may-not-measure-up-to-big-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/drug-microdosing-effects-may-not-measure-up-to-big-expectations","title":{"rendered":"Drug microdosing effects may not measure up to big expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-microdosing-effects-may-not-measure-up-to-big-expectations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking very small amounts of psychedelic substances on a regular basis \u2013 called \u2018microdosing\u2019 \u2013 may improve psychological and cognitive functioning, but the effects do not exactly match users\u2019 expectations, a new study from Macquarie University suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Microdosing of substances like LSD and psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) has had a recent surge in popularity, with proponents claiming wide-ranging benefits, including enhanced productivity, concentration, creativity, mood and wellbeing, all without the typical \u2018high\u2019 of psychedelics.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first published <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/longitudinal+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">longitudinal study<\/a> to test these claims, in which researchers recruited 98 \u2018microdosers\u2019 from online forums and tracked their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/experiences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">experiences<\/a> over a six-week period.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-02-drug-microdosing-effects-big.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;02-drug-microdosing-effects-big.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking very small amounts of psychedelic substances on a regular basis \u2013 called \u2018microdosing\u2019 \u2013 may improve psychological and cognitive functioning, but the effects do not exactly match users\u2019 expectations, a new study from Macquarie University suggests. Microdosing of substances like LSD and psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) has had a recent surge in popularity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87521","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}