[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Prof David West]

Glen,

Your question challenged the grounds on which I made the simple assertion (one that I had made many times before). Other than Strassman who directly asserts the human brain makes DMT, all the other sources seemed to take that as a given and look at other aspects, so I did to. Obviously, it is more complicated than that, and I need to qualify the assertion a bit.  Thanks for making me think about this.

davew


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, at 4:48 PM, glen∈ℂ wrote:
> Thanks. The evidence is still correlational, I suppose. But this 
> article seems to provide strong evidence that rats do it:
> 
> Biosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of N,N-dimethyltryptamine 
> (DMT) in Mammalian Brain
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-w
> 
> I'm still skeptical, of course. There's a lot that rats do that we don't. 8^)
> 
> On 11/20/19 1:34 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> > The primary source of the assertion is probably Rick Strassman, M.D., a clinical psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico. I have some other papers in a filing cabinet back in Utah that seem to take endogenous DMT as a given and then focused on why and how it got there.
> 
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