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Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic? (2025x19)

Data emisji: Paź 17, 2025

Nobody knows why some mushrooms are psychedelic. I mean, we know that they contain a compound called psilocybin, which messes with the brain chemistry of lots of animals, including humans. But we don’t know why being psychedelic would be useful to mushrooms in the first place. Here are three of our best theories.