Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

Ayahuasca Journey Shows Huge Change in Mitochondria

26 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube interview (Ben Greenfield) in which the speakers note the biohacker community's preference for self-directed testing and discuss a study of ~100 individuals who completed a week-long ayahuasca journey. The study collected biological samples pre-journey, midpoint (after the first ceremony), and at the end of the week, and the speaker reports seeing mitochondrial changes within 48 hours in a large percentage of participants.

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About 100 individuals.

Three timepoints: pre-journey (baseline), midpoint after the first ceremony, and at the end of the week.

They report seeing mitochondria change in 48 hours.

Most humans don't want to leave their home. They're hermits, they like to hang out, they like to do things on their own, especially in the biohacker community. Right. They don't want other involvement. They want to do everything on their own.
Yeah. I mean as much as much fun as driving to a lab and getting the tourniquet on your arm and you know, standing in line for a half hour and you know, submitting multiple tubes of blood and hoping they get the right pain the first time. And it is kind of nice to be able to stay at home.
Hot area in everything. Meditation and mind body right now are psychedelics. And so we been able to get about 100 individuals that have done a week long ayahuasca journey. And so we look at a pre sample before the journey starts, we look at a sample midpoint after their first ceremony and then we look at a sample at the end of the week. I've never seen mitochondria change in 48 hours. And we see it with ayahuasca in a large percentage of these individuals.