Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

MDMA stimulează eliberarea masivă de serotonină, dopamină și oxitocină. Iată care sunt riscurile.

23 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Mihail Pautov. This content was uploaded by Mihail Pautov. This is a YouTube video (title: "MDMA stimulează eliberarea masivă de serotonină, dopamină și oxitocină. Iată care sunt riscurile.") created on 2025-02-23. The excerpt is an English-language dialogue between two speakers (Speaker A and Speaker B) in an informational/educational format about MDMA/ecstasy. They discuss MDMA's pharmacology — primarily its release of serotonin (producing empathy and sociability), plus dopamine and noradrenaline (energy and wakefulness) — and safety risks such as raised body temperature, hyperthermia, and possible death. One speaker also highlights the distinction between pure pharmaceutical MDMA and adulterated substances sold on the illegal market, which may be more toxic.

MDMA or ecstasy. What. How does this MDMA affects brain? What, what it does in the brain.
The MDMA releases transmitters so that your brain is a very sophisticated computer which uses chemistry to communicate between the different cells, the neurons. And there are some very powerful neurotransmitters. Serotonin is one everyone knows about. It's a, it's a feel good transmitter. It actually makes you happy, it makes you sociable. MDMA releases serotonin, but it also dopamine, which is why it gives you energy and drive. You can dance all night. It also raises noradrenaline, which also contributes to being awake. So ecstasy is a complicated drug. It works on three transmitters, but the one it works most on is serotonin. That is where you get the empathy.
What are the drawbacks of using MDMA or Ecstasy?
If you take a lot, you can die. Yeah. So you can, it can put up your blood pressure, put up your body temperature. So if you, if you take a big dose of ecstasy and you dance too much and you sweat a lot, you can have hyperthermia.
I want to make a very clear distinction here. Like what you're talking about is the pure pharmacological mdma, Ecstasy. If you go and you buy on illegal market ecstasy, you don't know what you get. So there we don't know what are the effects on the brain. That's the problem with the illegal market. Correct.
And if yet there are things that are being sold as ecstasy which we know are more toxic. Yes.