Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-140117-questions-and-answers — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-140117-questions-and-answers. The excerpt begins at 34:57 and runs for 58 seconds.

And so the drug industry, knowing that serotonin antagonized LSD, I think they took advantage of that and said that if LSD makes you crazy, then serotonin is the good guy. And before that, people who studied the intestinal tumor that overproduces serotonin, psychosis and aggression and anxiety were outstanding features of their psychotic state from being flooded with huge amounts of serotonin. So I think it had to be the reverse psychology of being an LSD antagonist that led to the idea that it's a happy drug.