Medical Breakthrough: Nitrous oxide makes you happy!
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Not exactly -- the article says it could be used to alleviate depression. Apparently you have to huff a bunch of it for an hour to feel better for 2 weeks.
A Little Laughing Gas Can Help Treat Depression, Small Study Finds
https://gizmodo.com/a-little-laughing-gas-can-help-treat-depression-smal...
“It started with the observation that ketamine, a different anesthetic with similar mechanistic properties like nitrous oxide (likely via NMDA-receptor blockage), was found to be a rapid antidepressant that also worked in patients with treatment-resistant depression,” Nagele told Gizmodo in an email. “By connecting these dots, we hypothesized that nitrous oxide may also be an antidepressant.”
Their early research has suggested that inhaling a hour’s worth of nitrous oxide, mixed at 50% concentration with oxygen, could have “rapid and marked antidepressant effects” in patients with treatment-resistant depression. This new study, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, is a Phase II controlled trial of the treatment.
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More and more published
More and more published medical research into nitrous, ketamine, acid, mushrooms, X --- back in my college days ya had to do field research to learn about this stuff
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Can I volunteer for the
Can I volunteer for the studies?