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Is Rapé Snuff Safe?
Five years ago mentioning the word rapé (pronounced “hapeh”), even in the plant medicine world, would not have raised many eyebrows.
How Much Rapé is Too Much?
A teacher from Acre answers the question better than I can
More Rapé Stories
Additional mechanisms by which rapé might cause harm
Addiction Culture in the Plant Medicine World
Confronting addiction and denial in plant medicine communities
Rapé and Tobacco
Tobacco Allergies and Plant Medicine
What I found when I went looking for why rapé kept making things worse
Is Rapé Snuff Safe?
Five years ago mentioning the word rapé (pronounced “hapeh”), even in the plant medicine world, would not have raised many eyebrows.
How Much Rapé is Too Much?
A teacher from Acre answers the question better than I can
More Rapé Stories
Additional mechanisms by which rapé might cause harm
Ceremony and Its Culture
Plant Medicine’s Paradox
When the path to healing becomes another way to hide
Addiction Culture in the Plant Medicine World
Confronting addiction and denial in plant medicine communities
Kambo: The Nervous System Angle
Why the relief runs out at two or three weeks
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca and the Symptom Problem
On why the medicine so often makes you feel worse before you feel better
Ayahuasca’s Effects on Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
Most everyone who has worked with Ayahuasca understands that harmine, one of its primary alkaloids, acts as a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO).
The Metabolism of Ayahuasca’s Primary Alkaloid Harmine
How Harmine Moves Through the Body, From MAO-A Binding to Liver Metabolism and Excretion
Harmine’s Influence on Histamine and Serotonin
Harmine, a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (MAO-A) with various pharmacological effects, has drawn attention for its potential influence on histamine and serotonin.
The Ayahuasca Diet Dissected
Recommendations abound on how to properly prepare your body for an Ayahuasca journey, yet lack coherence.
Giving up Salt in Ayahuasca Dieta Practices
Anyone who has ever prepared for an Ayahuasca ceremony can probably tell you that one thing that you have to eliminate prior to ceremony is salt.
Minerals and Plant Medicine
Psychedelics May Pose Stroke Risk in Magnesium Deficiency
If you’ve been following the ongoing psychedelic renaissance, you’ve likely heard these substances heralded as safe, revelatory cures for mental distress.
You Can’t Microdose Your Way Out of a Mineral Imbalance
If you believe more serotonin equals more happiness, think again.
Does Cannabis Affect Copper and Iron Metabolism?
Let’s talk cannabis. It is, after all, the plant medicine du jour.
Fear in Ceremony: The Iron Connection
We all know fear on some level, it’s something everyone has experienced.
Copper and Iron
The HTMA Copper Toxicity Fallacy
Why the paradigm can’t be tested, and what the evidence points to instead
Rethinking Copper Toxicity
History, research methods, and the iron connection
The Mass Formation Psychosis of Taking Iron
There is no clearer example of mass formation psychosis than billions of people happily consuming one of the most harmful heavy metals on this planet: Iron.
What Blood Donation Records Actually Tell You About Iron
Why cumulative phlebotomy totals don’t measure what people think they measure
When the Cure Becomes the Cause
Why the Iron Protocol solves the wrong problem
Tattoo Inks
What’s Actually in Tattoo Ink
A mineral perspective on what we put under the skin
Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Impact of Metals in Tattoo Inks
What the metals do after the needle
Tattoo Ink and Vaccines: An Honest Aluminum Comparison
Doing the arithmetic properly
Paradigms and Belief
Stop Calling Everything a Cult
How sloppy language is making us worse at spotting real danger
Swimming in Different Waters: Why everyone is a little bit culty, including you and me
Why everyone is a little bit culty, including you and me
When Mystical Language Stops Communicating
Recognizing word salad in alternative health
Chasing Shadows: What virology never controlled for
What virology never controlled for
The Problem with ‘Awakened’ Doctors: Why Medical School Credentials Don’t Equal Health Expertise
Why Medical School Credentials Don’t Equal Health Expertise
The Wisdom of Open Hands
Learning to hold our dreams lightly
The Foundation
The Huachuma Foundation
Huachuma, also known as San Pedro, is a cactus native to the Andean mountains of South America.
Work with Hamid
Say where you are and what you have already tried.