Comment on Would eating raw human brains make you high?
Fleshtrap@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As far as the pineal gland goes, a book written in 2000 (DMT: The Spirit Molecule) declares the pineal gland produces enough DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) to experience hallucinogenic effects but this has not been confirmed, trace amounts of DMT has been found in the pineal glands of rats, but not humans. If there was enough DMT in a pineal gland and you ate it, you would also need to inhibit certain enzymes that break it down, namely, Monoamine Oxidase.
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You seem to be a very well educated Fleshtrap! Thanks!
sock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
that is a common story that most people know
i bet a lot of people know more than you due to the question that you asked being very far off base from how anything actually works
brain when consumed digests so if any chemicals were still there theyd have been metabolized into something different including dmt probably but im not sure if dmt is bioavailable in the stomach
njinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Look at the community you’re in asshole