Once more, the reply is possibly. We do not have strong scientific analysis on this but.
Whereas researching matters associated to girls’s well being, I attain out to Natalie Gukasyan, M.D., on the Middle for Psychedelic and Consciousness Analysis at Johns Hopkins College Faculty of Drugs. My intent is to ask her about her work on psilocybin and consuming issues. That is 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 am giddy over the truth that researchers are trying into this. In her case sequence, co-authored with Sasha Ok. Narayan, M.D., Gukasyan interviewed three girls 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 element 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 she or he skilled regular cycles for the subsequent 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 basic psychedelics once more no less than a dozen occasions at reasonable to excessive doses and reported {that a} third of these cases possible 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 Girls by Jennifer Chesak. Copyright © 2023 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, New York. All rights reserved.