Microdosing Lsd Is A Growing Silicon Valley Trend. Only Does It Genuinely Work?

From the Huffington Post, Sept. 3:

Researchers are launching 1 of the origin e'er placebo-controlled trials of microdosing to answer this really question.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 powerful distortion as well as modification of perception, mood as well as cognitive function: The effects of taking larger amounts of psychedelic drugs similar LSD as well as magic mushrooms are fairly good documented as well as understood. But when it comes to the growing trend of microdosing or taking really pocket-size quantities of these drugs on a regular basis, the scientific discipline is hazy.

Anecdotally, people who microdose alongside psychedelics bring claimed the drugs deliver a range of benefits such equally heightened focus, productivity as well as creativity, equally good equally psychological as well as emotional well-being. The effects are evidently as well as therefore positive that microdosing has been described equally the “life hack du jour” inwards Silicon Valley, where the practise origin gained widespread popularity.

Yet, despite the burgeoning interest inwards the technique, enquiry into microdosing as well as its effects stay scarce...MORE

Old news. At to the lowest degree the fact the Valley is all upwards inwards that.
(as Miles Davis said inwards a unlike context)

From the Financial Times, over a twelvemonth ago:

Corrections
Correction: LSD microdosing
August 11, 2017
• Drug microdosers exercise 10 microgrammes of LSD every 3 days, non 10 milligrammes equally wrongly stated inwards an article inwards the Aug 12/13 FT Magazine.

Fortunately for anyone who took the 1000-times-larger amount, President Carter (a flake of a micro-manager) is yet alive:

Maybe novel intelligence on the enquiry flake though.