DMTweet: psychedelic tweet recap

a PsyMed Ventures x Business Trip colab (issue #10)

DMTweet is a newsletter of psychedelic tweets that catch our eye 👀.

This is a collaboration between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip (yes, we’re the folks working on both 🙃).

Tweets include: Industry updates 💼, Therapy 🛋️, Psychedelic research 🧪, Neuroscience 🧠, Consciousness ✨, Indigenous reciprocity ⚖️, Regulatory updates 📜, and Trippy ideas 👽.

Inclusion = interesting ≠ endorsement.

Let’s get to it….

Steve Rolles 🇺🇦 @SteveTransform

I'm getting the train to Utrecht in the Netherlands on Thursday for the opening of the world's first MDMA shop. THREAD 🧵 1/

Reilly Capps @ReillyCapps

It's official: Colorado will vote on psychedelics this November.

Psychedelic Club of Denver @DenverPsychClub

The Elections Division of the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced today that Proposed Initiative #58 (“Access to Natural Medicine”) obtained the sufficient number of signatures and has qualified for inclusion on the November 8, 2022 General Election ballot. https://t.co/gteqmt9LwB

Molly Maloof @mollymaloofmd

“Emotion regulation moderated the association between stress and aging such that with worse emotion regulation, there was greater stress-related age acceleration, while stronger emotion regulation prevented any significant effect of stress on GrimAge.”

nature.comPsychological and biological resilience modulates the effects of stress on epigenetic aging - Translational PsychiatryTranslational Psychiatry - Psychological and biological resilience modulates the effects of stress on epigenetic aging

Phil Corlett @PhilCorlett1

The excellent @shayla__love on psychedelics and belief change, with comments from me, @ExistWell and many others:

vice.comThe Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and TelepathyIt’s impossible to tell the story of psychedelics without telepathy. How will these experiences fit into psychedelics’ mainstream, medical future?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

"The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations."

nature.comThe serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence - Molecular PsychiatryMolecular Psychiatry - The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

Riva @rivatez

Chemical imbalance was only a theory for depression causation yet presented as facts to simplify a narrative in order to prescribe SSRIs. Most of psychology and psychiatry is based on myths.

telegraph.co.ukDepression is ‘not caused by chemical imbalance’Major review suggests low serotonin levels are not a factor and the condition is more likely to be linked to stressful life events

Zeus Tipado @tipado

This is gonna sound wild, but I think PCP will be the next big thing in psychedelic therapy. Yeah man, P👏🏽C👏🏽P (1/11)

comedycentral @ComedyCentral

.@JimBelushi found peace on ayahuasca, despite the chattering monkeys. #TalesFromTheTrip

Madison Margolin @margolinmadison

For whoever needs to hear this: psychedelics are not automatically healing and they don’t automatically make you a better person 🙃

Until next time,

Greg, Matias, and Dina

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DMTweet is a collab between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip. PsyMed Ventures is a community-focused fund and syndicate investing in psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. Business Trip is a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Our mission is to help expand access to psychedelic medicine and mental health.