Episode 158
Microdosing, Mega Impact (feat. Peter Reitano & Daniel Sanders)
The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, and discusses wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.
On Today's episode of Salad With A Side Of Fries, Jenn is joined by Peter Reitano & Daniel Sanders, creators of MOJO and founders of Gwella. MOJO is a microdose mushroom soft chew that helps with day-to-day health and focus. During this episode, we discuss what microdosing is, how it works in the body, the benefits of microdosing, and how to get started. We dive deeper into psychedelics and how the different amounts affect our bodies differently. Tune in to learn some valuable and interesting information about microdosing and a bit about macrodosing.
IN THIS EPISODE:
● [6:35] How did Peter and Daniel get started in the microdosing area?
● [12:00] How Peter and Daniel define psychedelics and microdosing.
● [15:09] What is legal and what’s not legal?
● [20:05] What would make someone want to try microdosing?
● [23:10] What dosage qualifies as microdosing?
● [32:30] How microdosing affects the body.
● [40:01] Ketamine and Mescaline - What should we know?
● [41:30] What does everyone need to know to experiment for themselves?
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
● Psychedelics allow you to build new tracks in your brain and, through the process, a way to think differently. Microdosing is more of a therapeutic dose allowing one to defrag their mind, a reset. Psychedelic support allows you to feel the issue but not re-experience it as you do through typical therapy.
● There are many regulated drugs that we don’t understand how they affect our brains or how they work, but we know they do work. There is still a lot to be learned in the psychedelic space, but it’s been shown time and time again to be valuable.
● Start low and slow with microdosing to find your best dose. And determine your best frequency, typically it’s a cycle of days on and off.
● If experimenting with macrodosing/psychedelics, do it with safe people, who have experienced it before, and that you genuinely like. Ensure that you are controlling the environment. Before using psychedelics: think about what's going on in your life, journal, receive advice from others, clean up your diet, and do a digital detox. Clear yourself of the garbage beforehand. After, process what you learned and how you will apply it to your life.
QUOTES:
“We wanted to create a company that instead of focusing on a minus six to zero bringing people up to baseline, we wanted to create a company that focused on the zero to six. How do we elevate, how do we improve, and how do we give people the tools to optimize their day-to-day health and wellness? We call it the betterment of the well.” - Peter Reitano
“We looked at why people are microdosing which I talked about starting with mood, energy, focus, clarity, creativity, cognitive enhancements and we wanted to replicate that in a form that was legal.” - Daniel Sanders
“If purity wasn’t an issue, to be honest, I think that MDMA is the easiest first step into “psychedelics” it’s an entactogen that generates this incredible feeling of oneness and communion and empathy with others, but it doesn't have heavy hallucinations, it's quite tough to have negative thoughts” - Peter Reitano
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BIO:
Peter Reitano:
Peter is an award-winning entrepreneur and CEO of Gwella, a brand house and life sciences company on a mission to make psychedelics more accessible and help people use them safely and effectively. He's an active participant and early mover in emerging and highly regulated industries, including both cannabis and psychedelics. Stemming from his early personal experiences with entheogens, he's become a passionate advocate for cognitive liberty and the right of every human to experiment with their own consciousness. They recently launched Mojo in the USA; an innovative patent-pending product that mimics the benefits of microdosing, in a completely legal platform.
Peter is also a regular speaker at conferences and industry panels around the world. He has been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, DX3, Porsche, Rogers, University of Toronto, Johnson and Johnson, Haste and Hustle, General Assembly, and InfluenceThis, just to name a few.
Daniel Sanders:
Daniel is a proponent for the evolution of humanity through medicinal and technological advancements; he attributes much of this pursuit towards a deep relationship with consciousness exploration and expansion. Having a decade of experience researching medicinal mushrooms, biohacking, and botanical extraction this has helped support his current role as Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Gwella Mushrooms Inc. Originally graduating from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for molecular biotechnology with an emphasis in genetics, Daniel then helped found and pioneer Marygold Laboratories as chief operating officer for the analytical testing of scheduled substances and currently sits as principal investigator for KRN101- poly-tryptamine - psilocybin based treatment for clinical depression in cancer patients.
