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NATURAL Rx

ased on a quick scan of available research, even a layperson can deduce that psilocybin has established its merit as a remedy for a host of issues endemic to the brain. Under the influence of psychedelics, the brain’s default mode network—an assemblage of circuits and hubs that researchers say is the closest approximation of what we call the ego—appears

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