Magic mushies helping Parkinsons?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're about fifty minutes away from kids edition of Gaily
and Emily Jade's Double and Nothing here at one O
Tonight and Hot Tomato.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Elena played yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Him desistent times. The main question, how I need be
of the German bicycle?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Many wheels on a bicycle. That's pretty much cute, Yeah,
wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It was later on I've got some research right, Okay,
magic mushrooms are not just for backpackers in Byron Bay, guys.
There is some new research out about magic mushrooms helping

(00:42):
people with Parkinson's disease. Okay, so it's a very small
study so you can't get too excited about it. But
it's a clinical trial out of the UK, and they
tested the part of the magic mushroom called I hope
I say it right, is still assignment. I think that's
the that's the magic part of the magic mushroom, to
be honest. And they did it on twelve patients with

(01:04):
Parkinson's disease, and the patients had not just days of
improved motor function and cognition and mood, but they had
months of improvements just for the psilocybin like.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
From an ongoing taking of it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
This is what said, such a great question to ask.
They only gave them two doses of it, so they
gave them I think, let me just have a look
in this thing. I think they gave them ten milligrams first, obviously,
just to test it to see how it would go.
Then they gave them twenty five milligrams. They also had
some psychotherapy sessions to go along with it. But the

(01:44):
results were absolutely remarkable in everything. And the factor is
that it lasted for months just off two doses.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I wonder if they hallucinated.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh, they had no side effect, so some of the
people said that they some of the participants said that
there was a little bit of nausea in the beginning.
But I think that would sound normal because you're taking
a psychedelic, right, So if you've never ever taken a
psychedelic before, nausea might be one of the things that
you would have, Like the world.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I have not taken any, but I'm assuming there'd be
something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
So you're going to say, but watch this space.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I don't have Parkinson's so I don't need it. But yeah, anyway,
they're using magic mushrooms for a few other things, especially
when it comes to the brain obviously, so I know
that they're trying to use it for depression and things
like that. So for the fact that it's been used
for Parkinson's disease and then it's actually had that kind
of result.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Off only two doses, off only two doses.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
So they are now going to trial one hundred patients
and delve deeper into its benefits to see if that works.
And that's when you start to get excited. So there's
one hundred patients and a thousand patients than five thousand patients.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And more doses. That's what I want to say.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wouldn't it be amazing to find the cure to Parkinson's
in our lifetime? And it's been on the planet all along,
it's just been sitting in a field, just sitting there
waiting for someone.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then we finally get back to the future five
you can make a comeback fox.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh my gosh, I didn't even think of that.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Like, imagine if it cured him.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I would love to see that for him in his lifetime.
I'll bet you he's under this straight.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Away behind the study. Actually he probably.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is because he has been searching for it. Oh my goodness,
Martin McFly. We want you get better, go and need
some mushrooms. Just not the ones from Australia.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, not the ones that get cooked up by some
woman that's denying. Stay away from those ones.