Magic mushrooms briefly reversed advanced dementia
A single 5-gram dose had a dramatic effect. Magic mushrooms briefly reversed severe dementia symptoms Nineteen hours after a high dose of psilocybin, an 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s began to speak, and kept speaking for hours, recounting memories from her own life. After a decade of steady decline, she couldn’t dress herself, walked only with help, spoke in single syllables, and had become emotionally unresponsive. With her guardians’ consent, she took part in a supervised psilocybin session in Brazil, receiving more than double the typical ...
