Yeah, not to nitpick but ...
please do as i want to learn!
kravinmh said:
at roughtly 49 days after conception the mother's pineal gland releases dmt to the infant.
This is only a theory, and you talk as if its an accepted truth.. Be careful, you can mislead people that dont know.
i don't want to mislead, hell i don't want to lead. but it's not a theory, it is released. could it be the start of conciousness? the soul entering the body?
kravinmh said:
so dmt is a naturally occuring substance in the human brain, kind of like an alternate substance to serotonin
kravinmh said:
in schizophrenics....dmt is bountiful, as a matter of fact the pineal gland is releasing large amounts of dmt. thus creating a schizonphrenic person
This theory has not been shown to be true by replicated experiments, and it has been generally discredited.
There are several differences in the brain/metabolism of schizophrenics, yes, and in some cases it may be that dmt level is different.. But, at many other also schizophrenic cases this is not true, so it cannot be 'The Cause', if there even is a single one. There is still plenty of discussion on what causes schizophrenia and dmt levels is one of the least considered answers nowadays in the psychiatric/psychological field of research. It is very likely that there are several very distinct problems that are all labeled under this quite generalizing abstract definition of schizophrenia, and also there may be several factors, not just one cause, which linked in a systemic way create the symptoms of this (these) disease (s)