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   Technicolor Medicine: Magic Mushrooms Can Create New Brain Cells   
   BY MIKE ADAMS · MON MAR 31, 2014   
       
       
       
       
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   Hardcore trip enthusiasts have been using psilocybin mushrooms for years in an   
   attempt to gain access to the Technicolor trap door into the unknown in hopes   
   that God may meet them somewhere along the way and explain what all this life   
   business is    
   actually about. Of course, there are also those who just want to watch their   
   friends' faces melt off and listen for subliminal messages on all their   
   favorite records.   
      
   The scientific community, however, says there is more to the "magic mushroom"   
   than just an emotional glimpse inside the looking glass of the universe, but   
   similar to our friend marijuana, it also has medicinal properties that could   
   one day be used to    
   cure a myriad of mental afflictions.   
      
   Researchers from the University of Florida recently published a study in the   
   journal Experimental Brain Research that suggests specific components of   
   psilocybin mushrooms have the ability to create new brain cells. The discovery   
   can be used to develop    
   ground breaking new treatments for severe mental conditions...even improve   
   learning.   
      
   In fact, researchers suggest that when given to mice, psilocybin mushrooms   
   proved successful in restoring crippled brain cells as well as easing the   
   symptoms of conditions like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression --   
   sometimes even working as a    
   cure.   
      
   To establish these results, lead researcher Dr. Juan R. Sanchez-Ramos   
   conditioned laboratory mice to be fearful of an electro shock, and then   
   monitored the animals after a dose of psilocybin. What he found was the mice   
   on "shrooms" became more relaxed    
   and less likely to react to fear than those left untreated.   
      
   "The proposition that psilocybin impacts cognition and stimulates hippocampal   
   neurogenesis is based on extensive evidence that serotonin (5-hy   
   roxytryptamine or 5-HT) acting on specific 5-HT receptor sub-types (most   
   likely the 5-HT2A receptor) is    
   involved in the regulation of neurogenesis in hippocampus," said Dr.   
   Sanchez-Ramos. "The in vitro and in vivo animal data is compelling enough to   
   explore whether psilocybin will enhance neurogenesis and result in measurable   
   improvements in learning."   
      
   Dr. Sanchez-Ramos adds that psilocybin has a way of infiltrating the   
   hippocampus portion of the brain, which can assist in improving memory and   
   overall brain function.   
      
   Two UK studies published earlier this year corroborate Dr. Sanchez-Ramos'   
   latest findings, concurring that psilocybin has the potential for alleviating   
   depression and other psychiatric disorders.   
      
   Mike Adams writes for stoners and smut enthusiasts in High Times, Playboy's   
   The Smoking Jacket and Hustler Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter   
   @adamssoup and on Facebook/mikeadams73.   
      
      
   http://www.hightimes.com/read/technicolor-medicine-magic-mushroo   
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