Ben Greenfield explores Microhuasca, a Peruvian group of psychologists, scientists, and Chibibo shamans studying microdoses of ayahuasca. The brew combines the vine Banisteriopsis caapi with DMT-containing plants. Microdosing showed positive results for participants by triggering neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to rewire itself.
Peru.
Banisteriopsis caapi.
DMT.
There's a wonderful group.
In Peru.
That formed called Microhuasca. These are a bunch of psychologists and scientists and shamans working together. Chibibo shamans. And what they found.
Is that there.
Are two components to ayahuasca. One is called the vine banisteriosis capi. And then there's 100.
Other different plants that contain DMT.
They found that.
Microdosing.
Ayahuasca worked pretty well for people.
Neuroplasticity.
Refers to the.
Brain'S ability in the body to adapt to change. And that's happening as populations of neurons and individual neurons, and this is a bad term, but are either wired with each other or are unwired from each other. And so when there's more neuroplasticity, after you've taken a psychedelic, then there are actual physical changes that happen to your neurons. They're structurally different, they communicate different. And so different.
Parts of your brain are able to talk to each other.
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