{"id":67282,"date":"2026-02-25T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ayahuasca-psychedelic-dmt-shows-promise-as-depression-therapy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:58:59","slug":"ayahuasca-psychedelic-dmt-shows-promise-as-depression-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ayahuasca-psychedelic-dmt-shows-promise-as-depression-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayahuasca psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome \u2018promising\u2019 results<\/p>\n<p>A phase II clinical trial has found dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the psychoactive components traditionally used in the Amazonian psychedelic ritual ayahuasca, might be a promising therapy for depression.<\/p>\n<p>The psychedelic pharmaceutical company Small Pharma (now Cybin UK) sponsored and designed the trial, which was led by Dr David Erritzoe, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Imperial College London. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-025-04154-z\">results were published<\/a> in Nature this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/feb\/25\/ayahuasca-component-dmt-psychedelic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome \u2018promising\u2019 results A phase II clinical trial has found dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the psychoactive components traditionally used in the Amazonian psychedelic ritual ayahuasca, might be a promising therapy for depression. The psychedelic pharmaceutical company Small Pharma (now Cybin UK) sponsored and designed the &#8230; <a title=\"Ayahuasca psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ayahuasca-psychedelic-dmt-shows-promise-as-depression-therapy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ayahuasca psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}