Legal highs - safety, concerns, advantages
There are a couple of plants that are generally speaking legal all over the world, such as blue lotus, wild dagga, mugwort, kanna (sceletium tortuosum aka zembrin - which you discussed briefly once), Mexican dream root (calea zacatechichi) and Syrian rue (peganum harmala). Could you discuss the pharmacoly, effects, safety and potential advantages of these plants? I'm assuming brewing tea is the safer route of administration versus smoking/vaping. Wild dagga is typically a substitute for cannabis in South Africa; blue lotus has a long history of medicinal use in Egypt as an afrodisiac and relaxant; mugwort as a relaxant; kanna as an empathogen and for hunting amongst the khoikhoi; Syrian rue has long been used in the Zoroastrian tradition for visions (produces harmine and harmaline like banisteris caniopsis, an ingredient of the ayahuasca brew). All of these are legal in most places!
Plant Based Diet, Not vegan Diet
Hello Dr. Huberman, Could you please create an episode and invite people like Michael Greger, M.D., and Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn, who is the director of the Heart Disease Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic? They can scientifically discuss animal products and processed foods and how these can impact our bodies. Or create an episode about animal product and process food and their impact on our body
"Seeing" & feeling certain things with eyes closed
I was told by the instructor in a psychology class in college that the Army conducted an experiment in which male subjects (I take it soldiers currently serving) sat with their eyes kept shut; were shown pictures of women. They were not told that they would be shown pictures of women. They were not told that pictures of women would be "shown" them. Later they reported with embarrassment that they were oddly sexually aroused during the experiment when their eyes had been continuously shut. What can you tell us about this -- the science and hopefully how this experiment could be of value and to whom they would be of value? Perhaps the religious might learn something about this, since the religious would likely not want to be sexually aroused at times they don't consider it appropriate to be sexually aroused.
Follow up question about training peripheral vision
Are there training methods or tools already available for me to improve my peripheral vision? Particularly, I would like to be able to train for self defense, like being able to detect threats (presumably a person or persons). I understand peripheral vision calls our mind to attention on any movement. I have tried to observe whether color makes a difference, and other possible factors such as how much light where, light source visible like the bulb showing brighter than the rest of the environment that receives light from it, context (like when I'm walking at night on the sidewalk beside a busy road. I will accept and appreciate anything you can give me.