Woman with Alzheimer’s shows improvements after taking magic mushrooms in single-person study
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/woman-with-alzheimers-shows-improvements-after-taking-magic-mushrooms-in-single-person-study/
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WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 65 pts · 41d
I don't "do drugs" anymore. From now on, I'm "initiating a single-person study."
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 41d
As usual, a case study is basically the bottom of the barrel you can get for efficacy of a treatment that's still published science. It doesn't mean it's bad science (it can often be quite useful for establishing future studies); it just means that it really shouldn't be advertised to the general public until there's e.g. a good meta-analysis.
Anyway, with that said, here's a link to the case study since CTV's seems to be malformatted.
qualia@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 41d
I wish the qualities of evidence tiers were taught in (at least) high school. Especially as so much information is increasingly at our fingertips. That plus moral philosophy.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 41d
As someone educated in statistics, I have a pretty good idea about what you can learn from a sample size of one. It's about as close to nothing as you can get without it quite being nothing.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 2 pts · 41d
Everyone should be doing shrooms.
untorquer@quokk.au · 3 pts · 41d
They should be accessible to everyone and destigmatized for sure.
Not everyone wants to do them though, and those people shouldn't.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 41d
Except pilots, people driving vehicles, surgeons, EMTs, and quite a lot of other people, not to mention those of us who have a rough time on psychedelics.
Nothing suits everyone, and even for those who benefit from it, there's an appropriate time and place.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 2 pts · 40d
Apply that to everything in the universe. 🙄
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Except people with dormant or active mental illness.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 41d
Idk I've found shrooms to really help with my depression. Obviously with mental illness you should be careful about it more so than usual though
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 41d
A close friend of mine, in his late 70s, was experiencing increasingly uniform, flat moods. This happens sometime to older people, due to neurotransmitter depletion. He microdosed on shrooms for a month and was back to his old, vibrant self for the better part of a year afterwards.
Another single-person study, but I give this anecdata a bit more weight because I know the guy well. If that's a placebo effect, I still want some.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 41d
Single person study? Sounds totally legit and should be immediately rolled out to everyone. Clearly nothing bad could happen. /s
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK612209/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7691231/
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 41d
Doesn’t “single person study” effectively mean they didn't die?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 40d
It means some old lady got high on mushrooms and it made her life better lol