Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells

Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by BurningFrog on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:35PM (#25250777)

The general answer to these questions is that before Industrialism, all of humanity lived on, or one mishap away from, the famine line.

"How did my ancestors ever think of trying to eat X"? Well, they were dying anyway, so they didn't have much to lose.

My main message is, you and me are so incredibly lucky to live in this era of wealth, health and progress. We should try to appreciate it.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by jbay808 on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:50AM (#25251304)

Amazingly, this doesn't seem to be the case for most other animals.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by aristophenes on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:11AM (#25252335)

This could probably be explained by the fact that most other animals have predators, and humans don’t (at least not successful ones). It is true of apex predators (that are not themselves killed by humans).

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by ergwwrt on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:39AM (#25253548)

Depends where you live. Research what happened to the Aral Sea in the last 50 years..

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