ELI5, How DMT helps with depression?
In: Biology
Two super important things to note: 1) Dimethyltryptamine being used to treat depression is currently still in its testing stages, so it would be disingenuous for me to say it ‘definitely does’ cure anything. But more importantly, 2) it will, regardless, vary patient to patient. Different drugs effect different people differently. Brain’s complicated. That’s just how it is, so even if it does show positive effects, it’s up to the medical professional to determine it.
That being said, dimethyltryptamine is a seratonergic. Clinical depression is more or less a serotonin imbalance in the brain, and DMT, as a psychedelic, has been found to work within serotonin receptors.
The key difference, however, is that DMT’s effects are considerably shorter than SSRI’s, SNRI’s, or even psilocybin. So what comes from this study is really up in the air in terms of long term effectiveness for now.
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