Psychedelic Use Linked With Lower Risk Of Diabetes And Heart Disease – Mashable India

In recent times, there has been an increasing number of scientific research analysing psychedelic drugs. As the stigma that previously surrounded recreational drug usage from the infamous and misguided war on drugs subsided, new and exciting benefits of these drugs were discovered.

Magic mushrooms, one of the naturally occurring psychedelic drugs have been previously found to have a positive impact on the people who them. While LSD and MDMA have been used to reduce the perception of pain and to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) respectively.

Now, researchers from the University of Oxford have found a link between psychedelic use and improved physical health. In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have revealed that psychedelic usage has the potential to lower the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

The researchers used the same data set from the United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health used by another research from early this year, which had shown that people who had consumed psychedelics at least once in their lifetimes had lower chances of being overweight and self-reported has had better overall health.

Despite the correlation, other confounding factors havent been considered, according to the researchers. They plan to conduct future trials with randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled designs to conclusively establish the positive link between psychedelic usage with better overall health.

"The regression models controlled for several potential confounders, but the associations could have been affected by latent variables that were not included in the dataset and could not be controlled for," the authors wrote in the paper.

Psychedelic usage has been shown to improve mental health, while depression is closely related to cardiovascular health. According to Otto Simonsson, lead author of the paper and a researcher from Oxford University, psychedelics might be indirectly having an impact on cardiovascular health or might be having a simultaneous effect along with mental health.

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