{"id":615669,"date":"2026-06-09T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=615669"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:14:23","slug":"woman-with-advanced-alzheimers-reportedly-regains-speech-after-taking-mushrooms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=615669","title":{"rendered":"Woman with advanced Alzheimer\u2019s reportedly regains speech after taking mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psilocybin mushrooms, better known as \u201cmagic mushrooms,\u201d have reportedly helped one advanced Alzheimer\u2019s patient regain her ability to speak.<\/p>\n

A recent Frontiers in Neuroscience case report indicates that an elderly Japanese American woman who had been suffering from the disease for nearly a decade had been experiencing severe cognitive decline. She was described as having advanced dementia with symptoms such as limited communication, incontinence and reduced mobility that required the help of caregivers to complete standard daily activities.<\/p>\n

The woman was given two separate doses of the mushrooms. The first dose was 5 grams, and resulted in profuse sweating and a long \u201csleep-like state<\/a>.\u201d About 19 hours after the first dose was administered, researchers claim she \u201cspontaneously initiated autobiographical conversation lasting several hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the following days and weeks, the woman experienced restored urinary continence, was able to walk independently and dress herself, and engaged in spontaneous conversation. She was also able to retrieve contextual memories, showed the ability to express emotions and maintained eye contact \u2014 smiling with others,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n

The second dose, a 3-gram administration, reportedly yielded even better results. The authors note that she exhibited greater capacity for speech, facial expressions and humor along with sustained continence and an increased ability to walk. Aside from the sweating and hyperthermia, she did not have any severe side effects from psilocybin.<\/p>\n

While there is not a longer-term study done about the effects of \u201cmagic mushrooms\u201d on patients with cognitive decline, the anecdotal results appear promising. It should be noted, however, that the study did not have a control group, no cognitive assessments or sleep studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis was not confirmed with modern biomarkers, and other neurodegenerative conditions could not be completely ruled out, the study stated,\u201d Fox News wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch more research is needed in larger, more representative study populations before any conclusions can be drawn about psilocybin\u2019s safety and effectiveness in people living with Alzheimer\u2019s or any other disease that causes dementia,\u201d said Courtney Kloske, Ph.D., director of scientific engagement at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association in Chicago, who was not involved in the study, in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis helps healthcare providers understand how these products may interact with approved Alzheimer\u2019s medications and other therapies to determine whether they could lead to unwanted side effects,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst at Fox News, is also urging caution in putting too much faith in a study of only one person.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, there is a built-in danger of giving a hallucinogen to someone with this degree of mental impairment, because the behavioral effects are largely unpredictable and can be harmful,\u201d he noted. \u201cHaving said that, I am not surprised to see that psilocybin could temporarily overcome or alter the\u00a0gummed-up [brain] circuitry<\/a>\u00a0(with plaques) of advanced Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2013 so it might have some value in a carefully controlled setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Psilocybin mushrooms, better known as \u201cmagic mushrooms,\u201d have reportedly helped one advanced Alzheimer\u2019s patient regain her ability to speak. A recent Frontiers in Neuroscience case report indicates that an elderly Japanese American woman who had been suffering from the disease for nearly a decade had been experiencing severe cognitive decline. She was described as having… Continue reading Woman with advanced Alzheimer\u2019s reportedly regains speech after taking mushrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}