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baseline levels of DMT at homeostasis, schizophrenia vs environmental factors, purely genetics?
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just in case someone isn't familiar...
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Increased excretion of dimethyltryptamine and certain features of psychosis: a possible association - PubMed
The excretion of the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and its precursor N-methyltryptamine (NMT) was studied among 74 recently admitted psychiatric patients and 19 normal persons. Both compounds were detected in 24-hour urine samples from all subjects. Dimethyltryptamine excretion was...
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You know they were measuring DMT excretion of less than one microgram in 24 hours in all but one of the cases?
I was also told that this may play a role:
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Stanley Medical Research Institute | Effects of T. gondii On Behavior and Psychiatric Symptoms
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Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior - PMC
Although latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii is among the most prevalent of human infections, it has been generally assumed that, except for congenital transmission, it is asymptomatic. The demonstration that latent Toxoplasma infections can ...
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how it comes full circle...
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The Relationship of Latent Toxoplasmosis and Cigarette Smoking: Seroprevalence, Risk Factor, and Case-Control Study in Fars Province, Southern Iran - PubMed
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease with worldwide prevalence. Despite the relatively similar effects of toxoplasmosis and smoking on alteration in neurotransmitters, especially dopamine, little is known about the relation of <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> infection and addiction to cigarette...
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Please make a more substantial effort in your posts and threads, and fully explain what you mean.
It's OK to have the beginnings of an idea, but try fleshing it out more by asking lots of questions about it. Also , the more relevant background knowledge you have, the better the questions you can ask - as long as one doesn't get too bogged down in orthodoxy, of course.
So, how would you introduce this project? What are you inferring from this assemblage of research? What, if anything, do you think traces of DMT in the urine has to do with behaviour-modifying brain parasites? Have you checked the latest research in these fields? Have you read the chapter in Shulgin's "PIHKaL" where he discusses the numerous failed attempts at finding urinary markers? (Which, incidentally, despite having been publishedoin 1991, is… well let's just say that was more recent than 1979.)
Then there's the small matter that schizophrenia as a diagnosis has been removed from the diagnostic manuals, so what was Murray's 1979 paper even measuring?
So, how would you introduce this project? What are you inferring from this assemblage of research? What, if anything, do you think traces of DMT in the urine has to do with behaviour-modifying brain parasites? Have you checked the latest research in these fields? Have you read the chapter in Shulgin's "PIHKaL" where he discusses the numerous failed attempts at finding urinary markers? (Which, incidentally, despite having been publishedoin 1991, is… well let's just say that was more recent than 1979.)
Then there's the small matter that schizophrenia as a diagnosis has been removed from the diagnostic manuals, so what was Murray's 1979 paper even measuring?
