I think you need to add a warning that excessive use of nitrous leads to horrific brain damage. One of my friends sons can barely walk as a result. A kid who was an expert surfer and skateboarder now has the cognitive decline and balance of a 90 year old man. Please read up on this Jamie
Hi Robert--thanks for writing and yes, that's the driving concern right now for youth abuse. If you click on the links to New York mag and Atlantic, they cover it, as do I in Bold Face headline "in the same way alcohol for communion doesn't prevent you from abuse..." There's three categories of potential harm/harm preventions: User Error (passing out and blunt trauma, inhaling compressed gas and frostbite, hypoxia). These are all easily manageable by never standing, never inhaling directly from compressed canister, not using over face masks for delivery etc. Next is the neuro-toxic effects which primarily result from stripping B12, impairing myelination and boosting homocysteine levels. The impairment of motor skills and ataxia sound like what your friend's son has suffered (a massive additional risk factor here is if you carry the MTHFR gene mutation which impairs methylation). Can be mitigated with IM methylcobalamin pre/post. The third is "ontological addiction" which I wrote about in Recapture the Rapture (which this post is excerpted from). That's when the revelatory disclosures are so interesting, profound, unique etc that a user keeps going back to the wishing well, long after they should have stopped.
More Delta, Less Blues... LOVE IT!!! Thank you for this absolutely fascinating read. P.S. I’ve shipped zebrafish down to Karl D at Stanford. Never thought to look more closely at his research.
What a fascinating ride! I own your book but haven't cracked it yet - this was ample incentive to do so. I've never tried Nitrous, but as someone who benefitted tremendously from a therapeutic approach to more conventional psychedelics, this helped me relive some of the staggering joy of revelation in bygone experiences. Cheers!
Extremely interesting article. Thank you so much for all of that information.Yes, the MTHFR connection. I have that gene mutation and am thus reluctant to try this . I see you mentioned that in a comment below.
I think you need to add a warning that excessive use of nitrous leads to horrific brain damage. One of my friends sons can barely walk as a result. A kid who was an expert surfer and skateboarder now has the cognitive decline and balance of a 90 year old man. Please read up on this Jamie
https://www.google.com/search?q=nitrous+oxide+peripheral+neuropathy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Hi Robert--thanks for writing and yes, that's the driving concern right now for youth abuse. If you click on the links to New York mag and Atlantic, they cover it, as do I in Bold Face headline "in the same way alcohol for communion doesn't prevent you from abuse..." There's three categories of potential harm/harm preventions: User Error (passing out and blunt trauma, inhaling compressed gas and frostbite, hypoxia). These are all easily manageable by never standing, never inhaling directly from compressed canister, not using over face masks for delivery etc. Next is the neuro-toxic effects which primarily result from stripping B12, impairing myelination and boosting homocysteine levels. The impairment of motor skills and ataxia sound like what your friend's son has suffered (a massive additional risk factor here is if you carry the MTHFR gene mutation which impairs methylation). Can be mitigated with IM methylcobalamin pre/post. The third is "ontological addiction" which I wrote about in Recapture the Rapture (which this post is excerpted from). That's when the revelatory disclosures are so interesting, profound, unique etc that a user keeps going back to the wishing well, long after they should have stopped.
More Delta, Less Blues... LOVE IT!!! Thank you for this absolutely fascinating read. P.S. I’ve shipped zebrafish down to Karl D at Stanford. Never thought to look more closely at his research.
What a fascinating ride! I own your book but haven't cracked it yet - this was ample incentive to do so. I've never tried Nitrous, but as someone who benefitted tremendously from a therapeutic approach to more conventional psychedelics, this helped me relive some of the staggering joy of revelation in bygone experiences. Cheers!
Extremely interesting article. Thank you so much for all of that information.Yes, the MTHFR connection. I have that gene mutation and am thus reluctant to try this . I see you mentioned that in a comment below.
Anything that gains people a perspective outside of themselves is helpful. Its all self absorption.
I havent had it in many years, but didnt gain any insight when I did. Also didnt set out with that intention. Just getting silly.