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 1:37:55 and runs for 1 minute 9 seconds.

They pretty much fabricated an alternative explanation for the hallucinogens for their own drugs and submerged the therapeutic uses, such as curing headaches. They were being used experimentally against breast cancer and several very serious diseases lost their funding and they couldn't get the materials anymore to experiment with because of the demonizing of the drugs. But the mechanism seems to be that the LSD-type drug does, in a few situations, imitate serotonin. Serotonin has a feedback system in the brain in which it turns off the nerves that make serotonin.