{"id":1608,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/magic-mushrooms-can-treat-people-who-worry-about-their-looks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"magic-mushrooms-can-treat-people-who-worry-about-their-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/magic-mushrooms-can-treat-people-who-worry-about-their-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic mushrooms can treat people who worry about their looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-24 15:00:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Magic mushrooms could help treat people with insecurities about their appearance.<BR><br \/>\nExperts in the US have revealed that a naturally occurring psychedelic drug in the fungi changes brain connectivity to help treat body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) &#8211; a mental health condition that causes sufferers to obsess over how they look.<BR><br \/>\nA team at Columbia University in New York found out that just a single dose of magic mushrooms transforms brain connectivity to alleviate symptoms of the illness after conducting a trial on eight adults with moderate-to-severe BDD.<BR><br \/>\nStudy leader Chen Zhang said: &#8220;The findings align with a growing body of evidence indicating that psychedelic compounds like psilocybin can promote mental health by enhancing the brain&#8217;s capacity for flexibility and integration.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;By facilitating communication within and between brain networks that are often dysregulated in psychiatric disorders, psilocybin can restore adaptive cognitive and emotional functioning.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-24 15:00:31 Magic mushrooms could help treat people with insecurities about their appearance. Experts in the US have revealed that a naturally occurring psychedelic drug in the fungi changes brain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}