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Nothing worked, Carcillo said at Tuesday s CNBC Healthy Returns Summit, which included everything from standard medicine to isolation tanks. I started to make plans to underburden my family and take my own life. I thought I had tried everything.
Then Carcillo discovered various mushroom-based alternative medical treatments for inflammation and wellness, such as Lion s Mane and Turkey Tail, and psilocybin the compound in magic mushrooms the latter of which the former NHL player credits with saving his life.
He says the day after a psychedelic trip under the right setting, he woke up feeling the way he hadn t felt in years: normal. And over the course of two weeks his symptoms lessened in intensity before all but fading away.
Nothing worked, Carcillo said at Tuesday s CNBC Healthy Returns Summit, which included everything from standard medicine to isolation tanks. I started to make plans to underburden my family and take my own life. I thought I had tried everything.
Then Carcillo discovered various mushroom-based alternative medical treatments for inflammation and wellness, such as Lion s Mane and Turkey Tail, and psilocybin the compound in magic mushrooms the latter of which the former NHL player credits with saving his life.
He says the day after a psychedelic trip under the right setting, he woke up feeling the way he hadn t felt in years: normal. And over the course of two weeks his symptoms lessened in intensity before all but fading away.
It s an emerging health issue that Simon came to appreciate through the firsthand frustration of watching people in his life suffering not just from mental illness, but from the failure of existing and costly medical treatments.
Drugs long stigmatized, such as psilocybin and MDMA, are rising in profile as mental illness treatment options. Just last week, results from a phase 3 trial of MDMA combined with talk therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder showed results that were impressive. This is a pivotal event, said Elemer Piros, a biotech analyst at Roth Capital Partners who covers the emerging alternative mental health treatment space. It may not seem humongous, but it is one of the best and most rigorously executed trials in the space. And the results corroborate what we have seen time and time again from smaller studies over the past two decades, he said, referencing remission rates double that of a placebo. The magical experiences kept showing up, but no one had the co
Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, launched a new center to study the clinical benefits of psychedelics in treating mental illness.
The Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics comes amid a statewide push for psychedelic decriminalization, including acts passed in Cambridge and Somerville that specifically cite the possible medical benefits of substances like psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms.”
One of the Center’s first studies, to begin this spring, will examine psilocybin’s efficacy in mitigating rumination, a common feature of depression. The researchers also plan to explore the substance’s impact on cognitive and emotional processing, as well as on personality traits that make an individual susceptible to mental illness.