"The human body cannot digest and metabolize DMT without the MAO inhibitors"
Dude, you got your facts all wrong. The human body metabolizes DMT almost instantly by an enzyme called monoamine oxidase. This is why DMT, when smoked, produces short hallucinations; the DMT is metabolized so fast that its effects only last for 20 minutes max. If you would take DMT orally, nothing will happen, because it will be metabolized in your stomach before it gets a chance to enter the bloodstream and reach the brain.
Compare this to, for example, LSD, which is metabolized by your liver. This takes a much longer time, which is why an LSD trip can easily last 8 hours.
Now there's this brew called Ayahuasca, in which DMT is mixed with a vine which contains natural MAO-inhibitors. MAO-inhibitors INHIBIT the action of monoamine oxidase; the enzyme responsible for the quick breakdown of DMT. Therefore, when taking DMT together with an MAO-inhibitor the breakdown of DMT is temporarily stopped, making the trip last a lot longer.
So, contrary to what you claim, the human body cannot digest and metabolize DMT WITH the MAO inhibitors.
"DMT is no doubt an endogenous compound, and has no doubt been found in the Human body."
"The human body CANNOT digest and metabolise ingested DMT without the MAO inhibitors"
"the human body metabolises ingested DMT almost instantly without the MAO inhibitors."
You are being linguistically pedantic quite frankly. The statements concur.
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bdiminishedminor7 ago
"The human body cannot digest and metabolize DMT without the MAO inhibitors"
Dude, you got your facts all wrong. The human body metabolizes DMT almost instantly by an enzyme called monoamine oxidase. This is why DMT, when smoked, produces short hallucinations; the DMT is metabolized so fast that its effects only last for 20 minutes max. If you would take DMT orally, nothing will happen, because it will be metabolized in your stomach before it gets a chance to enter the bloodstream and reach the brain.
Compare this to, for example, LSD, which is metabolized by your liver. This takes a much longer time, which is why an LSD trip can easily last 8 hours.
Now there's this brew called Ayahuasca, in which DMT is mixed with a vine which contains natural MAO-inhibitors. MAO-inhibitors INHIBIT the action of monoamine oxidase; the enzyme responsible for the quick breakdown of DMT. Therefore, when taking DMT together with an MAO-inhibitor the breakdown of DMT is temporarily stopped, making the trip last a lot longer.
So, contrary to what you claim, the human body cannot digest and metabolize DMT WITH the MAO inhibitors.
SatanicStreetCred ago
You just agreed with the quoted statement you lunatic.
bdiminishedminor7 ago
Erm, nope. This is your claim: "The human body CANNOT digest and metabolize DMT without the MAO inhibitors"
And I said: the human body metabolizes DMT almost instantly without the MAO inhibitors.
These two statements are, erm, completely at odds with eachother.
VastExpanses ago
"DMT is no doubt an endogenous compound, and has no doubt been found in the Human body." "The human body CANNOT digest and metabolise ingested DMT without the MAO inhibitors" "the human body metabolises ingested DMT almost instantly without the MAO inhibitors."
You are being linguistically pedantic quite frankly. The statements concur.
bdiminishedminor7 ago
Can't you people read? One says the human body CANNOT metabolize DMT, and the other says the human body CAN metabolize DMT.
VastExpanses ago
The quoted article simply is linguistically lazy.
It agrees in that without the MAO inhibitors, the body cannot EFFECTIVELY PROCESS DMT.