"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.
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
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!
Guayusa
You talk a lot about yerba maté, but what about its cousin from Ecuador, guayusa? How do they compare? Guayusa is also used for ceremonies, and according to the Kichwa, has hallucinogenic effects in higher doses. Typically, it is drunk as a stimulant like tea or coffee though. What is its pharmacology and most important effects? Does it have GLP 1 effects like yerba mate?