Can Psychedelics Help With Chronic Pain?

Can Psychedelics Help With Chronic Pain?

Can Psychedelics Help With Chronic Pain? In this blog I will discuss the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics in chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia. It is inspired by a paper entitled Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include:

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Alexithymia: The Role Of Emotions In Health

Alexithymia

What Is Alexithymia? The term “alexithymia” was introduced by Peter Sifneos in 1973, to designate a cluster of cognitive and affective characteristics that were observed among patients with classical psychosomatic diseases (1). Messina et al. have postulated that at least three forms, primary, secondary, and organic, might characterize alexithymia. What Is Primary Alexithymia? It is

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Psilocybin: The Potential Health Benefits

Psychedelics

Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: Psychedelics As Anti-Inflammatory Agents: A New Hope How Do Psychedelics Work? Psychedelics as a novel approach to treating autoimmune conditions There were > 1000 clinical papers published on classic psychedelics, collectively involving approximately 40,000 patients between 1950 and the mid-1960s. Psilocybin: The Potential

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Prevotella: Why Context Matters

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii

In this blog entitled ‘Prevotella: Context Matters!’ I am going to discuss the bacteria Prevotella with the aim of highlighting how this bacteria influences both health and disease, why the contradictory findings and how we can modify it via dietary changes. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: The Ultimate

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Can mould cause thyroid issues?

Can mould cause thyroid issues?

Welcome to my blog post ‘Can mould cause thyroid issues?’. This blog assumes you are up to speed with what mycotoxins are, the signs and symptoms of mycotoxin illness, and how to test for them. If not, you may also be interested in the section of my blog dedicated to mycotoxins, click here, in particular:

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