Laura Pérez Duque

Médica integrativa | MTCh, Ayurveda, Sintergética | Por estos días encarretadísima con enteógenos | laurapduque en otras redes

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

More positive news on psychedelics: psilocybin doses before cancer chemotherapy protects neurons and helps prevent peripheral neuropathy in the experimental model @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/4ft3ywxq7l
https://t.co/pR0qANxLX6

[Martin Picard @MitoPsychoBio]

Great writing on energy, health, and the human experience.

"health isn’t just something we build through better inputs — better diets, better habits, better routines — but something we experience as the quality of energy moving through us. And the difference between feeling alive and merely being alive may come down to how well we learn to notice and work with that flow."

Thank you Jasna Hodzic @bigthink

https://t.co/jHKAvq7DQ6

[Agustin Ibañez @AgustinMIbanez]

Music helps to understand the mind and the brain. Throughout the history of science, metaphors have shaped how we understand complex phenomena. The brain-as-computer metaphor has guided decades of theories and research. We propose music as a scientific metaphor for understanding the mind and brain via triplicate interfaces (listener, performer, composer) and a compound set of predictions. Multiple domains of music can be mapped onto different neural, cognitive and intersubjective processes such as network coordination, prediction, emotion and meaning. Neurocognition is not static but a dynamic, embodied, and time-sensitive system, much like a self-organized orchestra in which multiple processes interact simultaneously. Drawing on synergetics, predictive processing, and embodied cognition, we outline musical principles illuminating cognitive and action integration across time, offering new conceptual frameworks and testable predictions for future research. I enjoyed writing this piece with these stellar authors: @Kaiameye, @acolverson1, Christopher Bailey, @brucemillerucsf, @dafneduron90, Nicholas Johnson, Olga Castaner, @PierLuigiSacco, Eoin Cotter and Lucia Melloni. Science, like music, advances through new ways of listening to complex systems: https://t.co/W3pJRyXJOH

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are: https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f

[Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center @JHPsychedelics]

New study published examining depression outcomes 5 years after psilocybin assisted therapy📈

In collaboration with colleagues at The Ohio State University, we conducted a follow-up study with participants from our RCT of psilocybin for major depressive disorder.

5 years later, 67% were in remission of depression, and other mental health improvements were sustained. Read more below!
https://t.co/mGzeXzUpQk

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

3 questions that predict if someone will benefit from psychedelics:

1. "Are you willing to be wrong about everything you believe?"
2. "Can you sit with intense discomfort without escaping?"
3. "Will you change your behavior based on what you learn?"

If any answer is "no", wait until it's "yes".
The medicine doesn't negotiate.

[Chris Masterjohn @ChrisMasterjohn]

SSRI Withdrawal Is Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Installment seven in our series on understanding the truth about SSRIs.

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[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

A common belief is that cognition arises from the brain.

This paper suggests that cognition is a complex multiscale information processing distributed across every single cell in the body.

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[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Pfizer board member, @ScottGottliebMD, you look foolish attacking @RobertKennedyJr on CNBC (links to clips below) because it’s clear you lack basic knowledge regarding vaccines. For example:

--Your claim that in “early 2000s … FDA reformulate[d] the existing MMR vaccine to take some of the preservatives out,” is false. Never happened. You are likely thinking about the removal of thimerosal in the early 2000s from various vaccines but as even CDC explains, “Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal.” https://t.co/iTY7OH4hqW

--Your claim that a child “can’t get vaccinated [for MMR] until age 2” is simply false. MMR is routinely given at one year of age and sometimes even earlier. https://t.co/MW3i33Djbo

--Your claims regarding pertussis vaccines nonsensically ignore the fact that these products do not prevent transmission of the pertussis bacteria – they only provide, at best, personal protection. As a recent consensus paper of industry pertussis vaccine “experts” explained, “aPVs [pertussis vaccine] … cannot avoid infection and transmission. … aPV pertussis vaccines do not prevent colonization. Consequently, they do not reduce the circulation of B. pertussis and do not exert any herd immunity effect.” https://t.co/nlLg6dqvaJ

--Your claims regarding polio nonsensically ignore the fact that the last wild case of polio in the U.S. was in 1979 and that the only polio vaccine used in the U.S. for the last 24 years only provides, at best, personal protection and does not prevent transmission of the polio virus. As CDC explains: “IPV [inactivated polio vaccine] … does not stop transmission of the virus.” https://t.co/PmgbMEUZnn

--You claimed that “we [Pfizer] don’t make the pediatric vaccines, Pfizer is not in that market” to deflect the claim that, as a board member of Pfizer, you have a serious conflict of interest in attacking RFK Jr. regarding pediatric vaccines. But, as you no doubt know, Pfizer does sell pediatric vaccines, including the Prevnar vaccine given to babies at 2, 4, 6, and 12 months of age, which was one of Pfizer’s top three selling products in 2023. https://t.co/55luhUOK3O claim is either a lie or reveals deep ignorance.

--Your claim regarding measles mortality is based on dubious and unreliable data and ignores the facts that (1) approximately 400 people total died annually in the U.S. in the years before the first measles vaccine in 1963 (amounting to around 1 death for every 500,000 Americans), and (2) mortality from measles declined by over 98% from 1900 to 1960 before the vaccine and was continuing to decline. https://t.co/vNmbpUfigF. In any event, you dutifully ignore the fact that RFK Jr. has made clear he has no intention of taking away vaccines from anyone who wants them.

--You claim RFK Jr. will cost lives, but I would argue that ignorance regarding vaccine products does and has cost lives. I welcome a public debate in which we can discuss the number of lives ignorance about vaccines has cost versus your speculations about those RFK Jr. will supposedly cause (a man who has actually devoted his life to saving the lives of children).

Your knowledge regarding these products is only matched by your track record as a public “health” official. The plummeting decline in childhood health from the early 1980s (from less than 13% with chronic disease to now well over 50%) continued unabated while you were FDA commissioner. Respectfully, you lack authority or a track record, let alone basic knowledge, to speak on the subjects you address in this interview (let alone to discuss this topic with Senators to dissuade them from confirming RFK Jr.)

If you were being honest, you would reveal that your real concern, as a board member of Pfizer, is that Pfizer's golden gooses – Covid-19 vaccines, Prevnar vaccines, RSV vaccines, etc. – will have to face the reality of the devastating harms they have caused to families across America. Your interview stinks of self-interest. The time for selling out America's children so pharma and its leaders, like you, can line their pockets has come to an end.

The above responds to a recent CNBC segment on which you recently appeared and which you tweeted out in two parts:
https://t.co/plgnR9TpWk
https://t.co/plgnR9TpWk

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Millions of People have bought into the scam sold by the mental health industry: that profound unhappiness is a mental disorder rather than a human challenge.
You can choose to see it this way.
But do not expect to feel or live better.
It will only keep you sick & dependent.

[Laura Pérez Duque @muluc189]

@epssura Pedir citas por la página está imposible. Por favor una solución

[Paul Stamets @PaulStamets]

Recently two new psychoactive species, Psilocybe ingeli and Psilocybe maluti, were identified in South Africa thanks to the efforts of dedicated citizen scientists! This discovery highlights the crucial role of citizen scientists in expanding our understanding of African mycology.

Most interesting to me is that indigenous people of Lesotho continue to pass on oral language of the use of these psilocybin mushrooms - likely long before European contact and certainly well before science recognized this ‘new’ species: the binomial Psilocybe maluti. Deep respect to all involved.

More info:
https://t.co/mb5KCOFWjC

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

These include modulation of pathways involved in inflammation, oxidative stress, epigenetics, mitochondrial dysfunction, tryptophan–kynurenine metabolism, the HPA axis, neurogenesis and BDNF, epigenetics, obesity, and the gut microbiota. 4/12

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

People too healthy, too determined to jog, too muscular, may use their health to prevent the soul from entering. They leave no door. Through the perfection of victory they achieve health, but the soul enters through the hole of defeat.~Robert Bly, 𝘐𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Diet modulates gut-brain communication.

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[Dr. Aaron Balick 🍉 @DrAaronB]

“The test of a psychologically mature person, and therefore spiritually mature, will be found in his or her capacity to handle what one might call the Triple A’s: anxiety, ambiguity and ambivalence…

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[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

This is your brain on psilocybin.

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[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Coffee changes connectivity in the brain.

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[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

Psychological effects of psychedelics in adolescents https://t.co/w4wFcSzw9Y Big up Nadhrah! Big up Hannes!