Once more, the reply is perhaps. We don’t have strong scientific analysis on this but.
Whereas researching matters associated to ladies’s well being, I attain out to Natalie Gukasyan, MD, on the Middle for Psychedelic and Consciousness Analysis at Johns Hopkins College Faculty of Medication. My intent is to ask her about her work on psilocybin and consuming issues. That’s when she tells me she’s about to publish a case sequence on menstrual modifications and psychedelics. She sends me the main points through e mail, and I’m giddy over the truth that researchers are trying into this. In her case sequence, coauthored with Sasha Ok. Narayan, MD, Gukasyan interviewed three ladies ages 27 to 34 about their cycles after psychedelic use. Two of the ladies used psilocybin, so I’ll deal with their reviews.
The primary is a 27-year-old with premenstrual dysphoric dysfunction (PMDD) who ingested round 1.5 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms when she was 26. Her interval got here eight days early. And she or he famous worse-than-usual cramps and temper swings. Later, the girl microdosed psilocybin and famous a profit to functioning within the face of her PMDD signs, although she didn’t expertise symptom enchancment.
One other girl featured within the case sequence, now 31, was 28 when she ingested chocolate that contained psilocybin and a part of ayahuasca, one other psychedelic. This girl had skilled amenorrhea (an absence of a interval) for 5 years. The morning after consuming the psychedelics, her interval arrived, and he or she skilled regular cycles for the following three months earlier than noticing some irregularity once more.
A 12 months later, she was recognized with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Menstrual irregularity is a typical symptom of the situation. She used traditional psychedelics once more at the least a dozen instances at reasonable to excessive doses and reported {that a} third of these situations probably influenced the early arrival of her interval. After her PCOS analysis, she additionally reported microdosing magic mushrooms and that whereas doing so she skilled menstrual regularity.
Excerpted from The Psilocybin Handbook for Ladies by Jennifer Chesak. Copyright © 2023 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, NY. All rights reserved.
