A New Kind of Wellness “Trip”

TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground A New Kind of Wellness “Trip” All-inclusive magic mushroom retreats—where the “trip” gets combined with increasingly luxe wellness experiences—are on the march in countries where psilocybin is legal (such as Jamaica, Costa Rica and Holland). It’s striking that, when a psychiatrist, such as Julie Holland, imagines the future of psychedelic experiences, she envisions a place that’s “a cross between a…

Magic Mushroom Retreats

Summit Trend in the News: Mushroom Emerge from Underground LSD, Mushrooms and The Brain: We Discovered Microdosing Could Boost Creativity and Wisdom—Newsweek Scientific study shows microdosing improves key mental health and wellbeing measures, such as open-mindedness and creativity. Psychedelic Retreats And The Future Of Mental Health: A Review—Forbes Some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors are betting that the eventual legalization of psychedelics could create…

Making the Case for Mushrooms

Summit Trend Exploration: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Could Be Legal for Therapy by 2021—Rolling Stone For the first time in US history, a psychedelic drug is on the fast track to getting approved for treating depression by the federal government. Medical psilocybin initiative launched in Oregon—The Leaf Online Oregon locals seek to reclassify psilocybin with a ballot initiative campaign aiming to legalize access to…

Psilocybin Research Surges

TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Research Surges Psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, has been used by cultures worldwide for millennia—from the Ancient Greeks to the Aztecs. And in the 1960s, top medical institutions, such as Harvard, undertook studies indicating their promise for conditions such as depression and addiction. But that research came to a crashing halt when many countries made psilocybin a highly illegal drug,…

Why Mushrooms are the New “IT” Beauty Ingredient

Trend Exploration: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground 3 surprising things Dr. Andrew Weil is obsessed with—and thinks you should be too—Well+Good GWS keynote speaker Dr. Andrew Weil (in conversation with Well+Good) noted that people outside Asia are finally grasping the “phenomenal” health benefits of so many kinds of mushrooms for medicinal purposes: “With such a great range—mainly Asian mushrooms—that enhance immunity, protect us from cancer and…

Shrooms Bloom in Beauty

TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Shrooms Bloom in Beauty Non-trippy mushrooms, which have played a starring role in traditional Eastern medicine for many millennia, are now getting overdue global recognition as equally “magic” functional foods—and beauty aisles are experiencing a great mushroom invasion. They’ve long been a key component in Asian beauty products, and now mushrooms are hitting global skincare, cosmetic and haircare lines for…