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Adam Shell: Microdosing works for 95% of people unless biased against it
“And it's, it works for about 95% of the people. The only people who it doesn't work for are those that have a bias that, like, want to prove me wrong or prove microdosing wrong.”
Opinion
Adam Shell: Microdosing yields a 5% to 20% improvement over standard supplements
“Essentially microdosing is a slightly expensive supplement that you should notice. You know, I take a lot of supplements. I'm very into health and fitness and all that stuff. And like, I've never taken a vitamin C or multivitamin or more like, oh my God, like …”
Insight
Adam Shell: Psilocybin benefits the brain even without active self-awareness
“Psilocybin at both the macro and micro dosing level moves the brain in a beneficial direction. Whether you're cognizant of it or not, but if you're cognizant of it will move the brain in a beneficial direction even more rapidly.”
Insight
Adam Shell: Coached psilocybin macrodoses permanently rewire the brain's fear of darkness
“There's techniques and a good coach will coach you through that, you know, allow, allow, allow, surrender, surrender, teach me. And you'll have a compression and it'll be terrifying momentarily. And then you're going to burst through and there will be a sponta…”
Assertion Partly supported
Adam Shell: Psilocybin regenerates brain tissue and unwires neural pathways of unhappiness
“Psilocybin mushrooms are neuro-generative, so they make new neuroplasticity wiring, and they're neuro-regenerative. And so they'll regenerate damaged areas of the brain. They're also neuro deconstructive. So they will unwire unhappiness and they will then wire…”
Opinion
Adam Shell: Early California cannabis industry competence standards were exceptionally low
“And at that time, the bar was so low that, like, competent and honest was the new extraordinary.”
Insight
Adam Shell: Macrodosing turns lights on while microdosing walks users toward them
“Used in conjunction is probably the most powerful, but that's kind of how you would delineate the two. One turns the lights on, the other just gently walks you towards the light every day.”
Disclosure
Adam Shell lost millions in a failed California cannabis industry venture
“I face plan in the cannabis industry really badly. I lost millions of dollars. I'm still bereft with, I lost my money. I hurt my wife, my children. I lost investors' money, farms, farmers, like dude, it was Netflix bad.”
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Adam Shell: 66% of Brain Supreme first-time buyers convert to recurring subscribers
“66% of our one-time purchasers become subscribers, which in the supplement space is amazing.”
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Adam Shell: Initial sleepiness from microdosing is purely caused by brain dehydration
“The only side effects or negative reactions that we get are occasional sleepiness. People on their first, like, one to three days of microdosing, they'll get sleepy, and I have a hundred percent success ratio with this. It's an indication of dehydration and br…”
Assertion Supported
Adam Shell: Psilocybin microdosing typically ranges between 100 and 400 milligrams
“Historically, it happens at five grams or 5000 milligrams to down to 3.5 grams or 3500 milligrams. Microdosing happens at the sub 10% level of that. So you're on the lower side, but microdosing kind of breaks down between 100 to 400 milligrams.”
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Adam Shell: Top supplement brands achieve a 10% to 15% subscription rate
“You might get 10, 15% subscription capture as a really good supplement company.”
