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by Noaidi 22 days ago
I do not get the point of this. Psychedelics work by activating the Serotonin 2A receptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10061-7

This is pretty settled science. So what is the big deal about taking a drug that affects a receptor? Will it cure anything? No. Because the body resorts to increasing receptor density for the drug.