@Rah1woot said in Muscle Pain:
However, what I have since learned is that it is a serotonin agonist preferentially into what is known as a serotonin "autoreceptors", which play a role in regulating the synthesis and distribution of serotonin. So in effect the drug causes the body/brain to think "I have enough serotonin" and actually lowers the overall amount.
Yes, as I understand and would attest, social trust and openness increase with usage which is opposite serotonin. I think of serotonin as self-serving, more introspective. Pretty sure cannabis is pro-serotonin and is linked to "Serotonin Syndrome" in a few studies.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10398562231219858
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kj531sc
Psychiatrists have unbelievable powers right now, and psychologists too. They prescribe uppers and downers to "depressed" patients who continue using marijuana and other stuff regularly. Somehow these "doctors" people sleep just fine at night.
I think R.D. Laing was using LSD to treat schizophrenia, depression and other illness in the 1960s - very controversial. But I can honestly see the merit - only now, 60 years later, are people considering ketamine, mushrooms, and lsd as "possible treatments." My opinion is yeah, these probably all have some treatment potential. Rich people are flying to the Amazon to do the demon-inducing ayhuasca drug, while all of these known medicine remain illegal except in certain states that are pioneering treatments.
