Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/07/psilocybin-as-a-geroprotective-drug/
Psilocybin is a plant derived hallucinogen with a long history of use and shorter history of prohibition that suppressed earnest efforts to research its biochemistry. Efforts to guide psilocybin from the state of prohibition into a form of therapy for neurological conditions have been underway for some years now, however. Increased interest in this compound in research and funding circles, alongside the ability to run studies on psilocybin without censure, inevitably leads to new discoveries. In today’s open access paper, for example, researchers provide evidence to suggest that psilocybin acts to slow aging.
Mice given monthly doses of psilocybin starting in late life exhibit at 10-15% increase in overall median life span. The researchers conducted cells studies that suggest that psilocybin…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/07/psilocybin-as-a-geroprotective-drug/
Psilocybin is a plant derived hallucinogen with a long history of use and shorter history of prohibition that suppressed earnest efforts to research its biochemistry. Efforts to guide psilocybin from the state of prohibition into a form of therapy for neurological conditions have been underway for some years now, however. Increased interest in this compound in research and funding circles, alongside the ability to run studies on psilocybin without censure, inevitably leads to new discoveries. In today’s open access paper, for example, researchers provide evidence to suggest that psilocybin acts to slow aging.
Mice given monthly doses of psilocybin starting in late life exhibit at 10-15% increase in overall median life span. The researchers conducted cells studies that suggest that psilocybin…
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