[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"nav-categories":3,"article-scientist-says-astronauts-should-take-psychedelic-mushrooms-in-space":70},{"data":4},[5,37,57,64],{"name":6,"slug":7,"categories":8},"Productivity","productivity",[9,13,17,21,25,29,33],{"id":10,"title":11,"slug":12},17,"Branding","branding",{"id":14,"title":15,"slug":16},19,"Marketing","marketing",{"id":18,"title":19,"slug":20},20,"Work","work",{"id":22,"title":23,"slug":24},34,"Community","community",{"id":26,"title":27,"slug":28},21,"For newbies","for-newbies",{"id":30,"title":31,"slug":32},24,"Investment","investment",{"id":34,"title":35,"slug":36},22,"Finance","finance",{"name":38,"slug":39,"categories":40},"Tech","tech",[41,45,49,53],{"id":42,"title":43,"slug":44},28,"Technology","technology",{"id":46,"title":47,"slug":48},32,"Artificial Intelligence","artificial-intelligence",{"id":50,"title":51,"slug":52},26,"Security and protection","security-and-protection",{"id":54,"title":55,"slug":56},31,"YouTube Blog","youtube-blog",{"name":58,"slug":59,"categories":60},"News","news",[61],{"id":62,"title":58,"slug":63},18,"quasanews",{"name":65,"slug":66,"categories":67},"Business","business",[68],{"id":69,"title":65,"slug":66},16,{"post":71,"published_news":98,"popular_news":167,"categories":238},{"title":72,"description":73,"meta_title":72,"meta_description":74,"meta_keywords":75,"text":76,"slug":77,"created_at":78,"publish_at":79,"formatted_created_at":80,"category_id":42,"links":81,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":88,"likes":89,"lang":90,"comments_count":91,"category":92},"Scientist Says Astronauts Should Take Psychedelic Mushrooms in Space","What better way to appreciate the wonders of space?","In the future, when space agencies start to send human crews deep into space to explore or terraform distant worlds, we may need to send them off with extra goodies to keep morale high.","In the future lonely, depressed psychedelic mushrooms help, mental health","\u003Cp>Hello!\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>In the future, when space agencies start to send human crews deep into space to explore or terraform distant worlds, we may need to send them off with extra goodies to keep morale high.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/1_12/psy3.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Scientist Says Astronauts Should Take Psychedelic Mushrooms in Space\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"224\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/1_12/psy3.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>When astronauts are feeling lonely, depressed, traumatized, or just generally bad, a little pick-me-up in the form of psychedelic mushrooms could help, mycologist Paul Stamets suggested to Scientific American. It's an odd idea, but as the body of evidence continues to grow that psilocybin — the active ingredient in shrooms — may have myriad mental health benefits, it may be an odd idea worth considering.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"Under carefully controlled conditions, our astronauts [being] able to take psilocybin in space and look at the \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/physicist-says-there-s-another-universe-hiding-behind-the-big-bang\">universe \u003C/a>and not feel distant and alone but feel like they're part of this giant consciousness will give them a better frame of mind — psychologically, emotionally — to work with other astronauts and stay on mission," Stamets told the magazine. "I feel that isolation, loneliness, and depression are going to be major issues that astronauts face."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>To be clear, Stamets didn't book an interview with SciAm jus\u003Cem>t\u003C/em> to argue that astronauts ought to trip on shrooms while they travel the \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/spacex-working-on-orbital-refueling-test-between-two-starships\">stars\u003C/a>. He's also receiving NASA funding to explore the many other ways that mushrooms could make life easier in space.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/1_12/psy4.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Scientist Says Astronauts Should Take Psychedelic Mushrooms in Space\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"169\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/1_12/psy4.jpeg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Those range from building structures and shelters out of fungus to terraforming entire new worlds with help from mushrooms' ability to break down regolith into farmable soil.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"It's much easier to take one seed and grow your food than it is to take a ton of food to space, right?" Stamets told \u003Cem>SciAm\u003C/em>\u003Cem>.\u003C/em> "Nature is incredibly efficient in terms of a payload. It’s much better for nature to generate a payload of food than for your rocket to carry a payload of food."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>While the idea of packing a little psilocybin snack in astronauts' utility belts remains speculative for now, Stamets is steadfast in his belief that it would be worthwhile.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"I say this with great sincerity: NASA and anyone else working and looking at the settlement of \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/watch-astronauts-give-a-rare-tour-of-china-s-luxurious-space-station\">space\u003C/a>, you should consider that psilocybin mushrooms should be an essential part of your psychological tool kit for astronauts to be able to endure the solitude and the challenges of space and isolation," he told \u003Cem>SciAm\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/new-psychiatric-technique-asks-schizophrenics-to-engage-in-dialogue-with-the-voices-in-their-heads\">New Psychiatric Technique Asks Schizophrenics to Engage in Dialogue With the Voices in Their Heads\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/body-language-expert-reveals-the-red-flag-signs-that-means-someone-is-lying-to-you\">Body language expert reveals the 'red flag' signs that means someone is lying to you\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003Cbr />\nJoin us on social networks!\u003Cbr />\nSee you!\u003C/p>","scientist-says-astronauts-should-take-psychedelic-mushrooms-in-space","2024-11-30T19:12:19.000000Z","2024-12-01T07:00:00.000000Z","01.12.2024",{"image":82,"image_webp":83,"thumb":84,"thumb_webp":85},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/KdLdUNOehv8yZWO2kfuVY7CXTKapqg2oKNvwKWHM.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/KdLdUNOehv8yZWO2kfuVY7CXTKapqg2oKNvwKWHM.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/KdLdUNOehv8yZWO2kfuVY7CXTKapqg2oKNvwKWHM.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/KdLdUNOehv8yZWO2kfuVY7CXTKapqg2oKNvwKWHM.webp","small",null,987,6,"en",0,{"id":42,"title":43,"slug":44,"meta_title":93,"meta_description":94,"meta_keywords":95,"deleted_at":87,"created_at":96,"updated_at":97,"lang":90},"Technology | AI Breakthroughs and Fresh News | QUASA","All the most interesting and useful about technologies. 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