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Mushrooms

persevere
persevere Member Posts: 361
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My son, always holding hope found this article in the NY Post. I don’t discount the possibility of magic mushrooms providing temporary lucidity. Would love to see your thoughts.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/health/alzheimers-patient-recovers-speech-continence-and-memory-with-this-drug/

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  • SDianeL
    SDianeL Member Posts: 3,426
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    Interesting! From the article: “Miraculous as the mushrooms may seem, the study authors note that the patient’s improvements were temporary and psilocybin did not reverse the disease, as her neurodegeneration remained. 

    They did not specify exactly how long the improvements lasted.

    However, the research does demonstrate that some function believed to be irrevocably lost to late-stage dementia may not be gone but merely inaccessible — and that a mushroom trip has the potential to recover it, albeit briefly.”

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