What I Prescribe for My Patients. What I Take for Myself: A Physician on Microdosing Psilocybin at Midlife.

What estrogen loss does to your nervous system, what the research does and does not show, and what I found when I became my own clinical trial.

This is part one of series: “Microdosing at Midlife: A Physician’s Field Notes”

Here is a sentence I did not expect to write at midlife.

Of all the tools I have tried to feel fully alive in perimenopause or menopause as a woman with a body that used to make estrogen and now does not, microdosing psilocybin may be the one that works better than anything el…