Author Archives: Olive
Awkward Runs in the Family. The Open Bar Doesn’t Have To.
The Dose The short version Family reunions are awkward, rare, and almost always built around
Everyone Comes Home Different. What Festivals and Mushrooms Actually Do to People
Shambhala wrapped on Monday. Somewhere on the drive back from Salmo there is a car
Getting Older Doesn’t Have to Suck: Microdosing and the New Science of Aging Well
Picture the most magnetic person at the party. Now make them 72. Silver hair down
What Macrodosing Actually Feels Like (and Why People Reach for a Full Dose)
Lifetime psilocybin use among American adults climbed from 10% in 2019 to 12.1% in 2023.
The Real Benefits of Microdosing: What People Feel, and What the Research Actually Shows
Microdosing used to be a fringe word you heard in a Silicon Valley podcast. Not
From Penicillin to Psilocybin: How Mushrooms Keep Rewriting Medicine
From a moldy petri dish in 1928 to FDA-stage psilocybin trials in 2026, here is
Can a Mushroom Bring You Closer to God? A Quiet Group of Christians Says Yes
The Dose The short version A quiet group of Christians, including ordained clergy, is exploring
We Drank to Forget. Now We Want to Remember Everything.
American drinking hit a 90-year low in 2025. It is not about quitting alcohol, it
Microdosing and Your Menstrual Cycle: What the Research Actually Says
More and more women are timing their microdose to their menstrual cycle, hoping for steadier
How Psychedelic Mushroom Experiences Are Changing Lives in 2026
Psilocybin therapy keeps 67% of patients in depression remission for 5 years (Johns Hopkins, 2025).