POD 126: The return of psychedelic selenium with Dr. Josh Hartsel
🕑 Added 2025-04-29 22:53:29 +0000 UTCIn this interview I talk with former Cybin chemist and pharmacologist Dr. Josh Hartsel about his work exploring the serotonergic structure-activity relationship of novel sulfur and selenium containing phenethylamines, his work represents the first psychedelic selenium chemistry since Shulgin's 2C-Se synthesis in PiHKAL. Read his paper and enjoy our talk!
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Sherm
Thank you for the content Hamilton! Very interesting conversation. This guy knows what's up - especially in regard to the importance of allosteric sites and allosteric modulators. Maybe even more exciting than targeting NMDA allosteric sites is the selective targeting of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlu5, mGlu2-3). There are already a number of mGlu allosteric modulating compounds (PAMs and NAMs) that are used in research, however I have never heard of anyone ever trying them. I've always felt that someone should :)
Ceba
Why are patents/patentability so important to the economics of pharmacology? Is it just the aversion to having done research that other companies will profit from?
Yvonne DePorre
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/43670521/Effective_donor_abilities_of_E-t-Bu_and_20160312-26819-ebzg5z-libre.pdf?1457836420=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DEffective_donor_abilities_of_E_t_Bu_and.pdf&Expires=1763011813&Signature=NLlWT1dONi7r~cRWvj-AJG2pYyA2AviyN~LQZlvnzyvwpQG1Z55ZJ7sbAcLYSr2jIv6igfKRURroQjYjaqRTrY98ACRENbZec9EkodMEcNiHP2nBVZXxyChFjqz-vitYFFDDZs7762fiPCjLlXSZBk9xuXeOCQFjvRoBTX1lTu6PcQ2tG71RFyOKNYZVIivPlH4kBVAFqSgWM6EAqIegRPYCMCivrgO6cKfBtjMo9ucyyVsC5NqdIEiNBS-HbJbzCcmjxzXoB12hJn64vw1GLPeXXW02kNVdXN5R-dGIJASpLThwMVsBcdiS2GylwmSpmJFiyLWNvZBhFZM~H6rZJA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
Aaron Eronen
Does anyone have that CBD DCM paper mentioned? Couldn't find it on scholar.
Rajiv
So we’re just all casually into click-chemistry compatible psychedelics now 👀
BoyzNThaWoodz
Yeah cbd is a pretty decent anti inflammatory when used topically though
Afromaster
Thanks for the episode. Some funky compression on the theme tune intro.
CollectiveObjective
A friend of mine had a way of managing the metabolism of 25i NBOMe, unsure exactly if it was an encapsulation or what but he was very successful on the road in the early days. Other sellers, jumping on the new market just laid it on blotter, put in liquid or sold powder as is and soon to follow were the nughtmare overdoses for a couple of festival seasons. Wish my homie were here today, he'd be all up in the pharmapsychedelic scene. He studied under some heavy hitters at Rice and Case western. He was murdered
Michael McCallum
1:33:25 idk the first time I took 2C-B I fell asleep, little over a decade now but just vividly remember staring at the wall and then lights out, but I think it was a relatively low dose compared to other first time psychedelics tried.