Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-110712-q-and-a-1 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110712-q-and-a-1. The excerpt begins at 01:38:53 and runs for 1 minute 5 seconds.

Serotonin has a feedback system in the brain in which it turns off the nerves that make serotonin. This is the serotonin-like action of the hallucinogens. They turn off the serotonin-producing drugs in the brain. And so even though they do act on that serotonin receptor, imitating serotonin in that case, their basic function is still anti-serotonergic. Just as in 1953 they were found to act as antagonists to the muscle-tightening effect on blood vessels or uterine tissues and so on, they were identified as antagonistic to serotonin. And because of the pharmaceutical industry wanting to avoid any association