What Tim Ferriss has said about Psychedelic therapy

Ferriss hypothesizes that many psychedelic benefits stem from reducing chronic neuroinflammation, often following past infections.

“are derived from anti-inflammatory effects on chronic neuroinflammation. And double-clicking on that, that chronic neuroinflammation is often downstream of an acute infection”

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Ferriss says he dissuades more people from using psychedelics than he encourages.

“I talk more people out of psychedelics than I talk into psychedelics”

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Ferriss credits psychedelics almost entirely for his long-standing lack of fear of death.

“but death, not really so afraid of it. And that's been true for a long time now. I credit that almost exclusively to psychedelics”

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