Adam Shell: Initial sleepiness from microdosing is purely caused by brain dehydration
Adam Shell · One Turns the Lights On. The Other Walks You Toward Them. · Jun 3, 2025 · at 29:01
Adam Shell describes the reported customer side effects and biological causes when starting a psilocybin microdosing regimen.
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“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 brain dehydration.”
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