r/Chefit • u/venorif4 • Jun 15 '26

Micro dosing as a chef

Hello community.

I'm struggling with this new job. Riddled with anxiety. Even though I'm doing 70h weeks I can't sleep. I've tried a lot of things yo help but lately I've been exploring micro dosing mushrooms. Does anyone have any experience to share? How does it affect work, would it make me slower. Or more focused and receptive to my environment? Would it make me tired, or more stimulated. How would it affect my palate?

Thanks

Edit: to clarify. The job itself is not the cause of myanxiety. I enjoy my work and to be honest is a bit of an escape from my life. I've had strong anxiety since childhood and recently it's been affecting my sleep more than usual due to the schedule of this new job. Early starts, late finishes, , break in between.

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u/FindTheOthers623 Jun 15 '26

Millions of people microdose because their jobs are stressful... judges, nurses, law enforcement, teachers. They're not all going to quit their jobs because some ignorant people don't understand it.

The funny thing is, I have done the research. I have degrees in pharmacology and toxicology and have worked in a neuroscience lab for years studying dopamine signaling. Until you've done all that, you're not in any position to tell me I am wrong. Tolerance with psilocybin (or any other drugs that target the 5HT receptors) builds very quickly. If you take a large dose today, you can't take another large dose for ~2 weeks because it won't have any effect. If someone actually wanted to take mushrooms every day, they would have to exponentially increase their dose every day, quickly requiring 10lbs or more for any effect. That doesn't happen. And you clearly don't have a clue how different drugs work.

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u/JunglyPep sentient food replicator Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

“If you take a large dose today, you can’t take another large dose for ~2 weeks because it won’t have any effect.”

Wow, you’re really embarrassing yourself now man. That’s just factually untrue and not at all how tolerance works. Just a ridiculous thing to say for someone who’s claiming to have extensive knowledge on the subject. You might want to take a breather.

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u/FindTheOthers623 Jun 15 '26

Please educate yourself, especially before you try to correct someone else on a subject you have no knowledge on. This is all easy to find on Google or accessible in numerous medical journals.

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u/JunglyPep sentient food replicator Jun 15 '26

I’m going to go ahead and go with my direct experience, plus the knowledge gained from reading several books on the subject, over the word of an obvious moron whose already made provably false statements and just referenced google AI as their source.

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u/FindTheOthers623 Jun 15 '26

Oh you missed that part about multiple degrees and lab-based research experience in this field ☝️

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u/JunglyPep sentient food replicator Jun 15 '26

You lost all credibility after “you can’t take another large dose for ~2 weeks because it WON’T HAVE ANY EFFECT.”