A Man Microdosed Mushrooms He Bought on the
Dark Web. This Is How His Organs Shutdown. GB is a 24 year old man, presenting to the
emergency room with hematemesis. His mother Karen, tells the admitting nurse
that she found her son on the floor, rolling around in a pool of his own sweat before his
eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he started shaking uncontrollably. About 2 months ago, GB started browsing on
the dark web- a part of the internet that helps anonymize the user at the expense of
speed and accessibility. He had heard on the news about how the dark
web was full of hackers, spies, and illegal activity. But, he didnât find any of those things. Instead he found Luxury Cucumbers 2.0. Do not purchase unless youâre famous. You couldnât use regular money to buy these
cucumbers, you had to use bitcoin. GB thought if he could buy Luxury Cucumbers
on the dark web, why not buy Magic Mushrooms too? Theyâre both natural, they.. come from the
ground. And nothing natural is ever bad for you anyways,
so time to buy some special treats here, he thought. GB used to take psychedelics as self treatment. He believed he had undiagnosed depression. But he couldnât be bothered to see a doctor. He would self medicate and drop acid to make
it all go away, but after the trip, the bad times would always come back. When he got his dark web mushrooms in the
mail, GB thought something was a little off. He thought they looked a little discolored. The bag had a weird, almond-like smell to
them. He ate one and it was a good trip. But then he thought he needed to make this
last. GB had read online about microdosing. Instead of dropping a whole dose at once,
people have been taking small amounts at frequent intervals to maintain a baseline trip. The Internet forums spoke authoritatively
on this: microdosing is more efficient, they said. It prevents any kind of freakout or bad trip
that could happen all while improving mood and enhancing cognition. Obviously for mushrooms, the forum made it
clearâ boiling them to make a âmushroom teaâ that you push into your veins with
a needle is the most efficient way to do microdose them. Immediately after injecting his dark-web mushroom
brew, GB felt.. nauseous. Maybe the dose was too small, in a few minutes
ill try a larger amount, he thought as he kept pushing higher and higher amounts in
to his veins. Eventually he tried to convince himself that
he was feeling a connection with the natural world. With a pounding headache and while gasping
for air, GB started feeling his feet become thick. His legs started to become sludge as they
weighed him down and his toes were like roots of a tree burying in to the ground. Everything was in perfect harmony. Balanced, as all things should be. As he continued to micro dose over the next
few days, he convinced himself he was keeping his trip up, despite the pounding headache. He could smell something when he boiled his
mushrooms, but he just couldnât describe what it was. He wasnât exactly sure where everything
was going. And then he started feeling cold. He started sweating uncontrollably while noticing
his heart beating in his neck. It wasnât pounding harder, it was just beating
fast as he noticed he was gasping for air. Even though he was sweating, he could feel
the cold touch of his own skin, as he emptied his stomach into the kitchen sink. Unsure if he was seeing things, he thought
he may have just vomited blood because everything that came up was red. He didnât think blood could just come up
like that. But he could smell the iron because when it
came up, it splashed in to his nose and out of his eyes. And then he started believing that he was
being recorded by a hidden camera. He saw himself tied up in a chair on a red-room
live stream, and people had paid bitcoin to watch him suffer on the dark web as he has
his first seizure. Karen hears the commotion and walks in to
her basement to find her son shaking and crying as he rolls around in a pool of sweat and
blood on the floor as she calls for 911, and hes brought to the emergency room where we
are now. At examination, doctors notice that GBâs
skin is discolored and cold. The whites of his eyes were yellow. His heart rate was high. His heart rhythm was erratic. His lips and his nails were blue. One doctor thought he recognized the heart
rhythm as maybe some kind of poisoning, but he wanted to order a special blood test to
make sure while telling the medical team to give GB vitamin B12. This SPECIAL blood test would take longer
than a REGULAR blood test, which finds that GB has acidemia. Acid referring not to LSD, but to a chemical
that releases hydrogen ion and emia meaning presence in blood. Acid presence in blood. This was accompanied by a high lactatemia. And if lactate is known as lactic acid, which
is made in large amounts and released when muscles contract chaotically like they do
in a seizure, then all of this happening to GB makes sense. Except, the blood test also reveals that parts
of GBâs liver have started shutting down. Because GBâs jaundiced too, this tells the
doctors that whatever has been happening inside of him, could have been happening for at least
a few days now. The spleen breaks down old red blood cells. One of the results from this breakdown is bilirubin,
which is sent to the liver, to be broken down even more. Bilirubin is the reason why human poop is
normally brown. But if GBâs liver has started shutting down,
then it can't break down bilirubin, and that bilirubin flows out to discolor his skin and the whites of
his eyes. But itâs more than just his liver thatâs
shutting down. Blood and proteins were found in his urine,
meaning that while he was convulsing from his seizure, itâs likely some of his muscles
ripped apart, floated around in his blood, and got caught up in his kidneys, tearing
them apart. Karen had no idea what her son had taken. Doctors had no idea either. And because heâs unconscious, he cant tell
them. Since his urine was clean for routinely tested
substances, this made it difficult to figure out why this is happening to GB. At this time, the special blood test came
back. Having looked at GBâs heart rhythm, the
doctor thought maybe he saw cyanide, which can affect the heart by shifting muscle timings
in characteristic ways. And this special blood test confirms the doctorâs
suspicionâ GB has cyanide poisoning. The blue lips. The seizures and lactatemia. The failing liver and kidneys. All of this meaning that some of the dark
web bought mushrooms that GB microdosed, were laced with cyanide, as doctors transfer him
in to the intensive care unit. Cyanide starves cells of oxygen. When it gets in to the body, it quickly binds
in to the mitochondria powerhouse of the cell, and acts kind of like a magnet by sticking
to metal ions. It snaps on, and doesnât let anything else
on. Mitochondria, normally use these metals to
shuffle around elections to produce energy, kinda like how electricity moves and flows
as energy. But if electrons canât get shuffled because
cyanide is blocking those metals, then the cells donât have a powerhouse anymore. The cyanide poisoning is kind of like someone
suffocating not getting enough oxygen, but in this case, the oxygen is there. Cells just canât use it, because cyanide
is there blocking it. Brain and nerve cells start to starve of oxygen,
causing seizures. The liver needs lots of energy to breakdown
and process substances in the body. Without enough energy, it starts to break
itself down and parts of it die. It can no longer process bilirubin from red
blood cell breakdown, spilling the bilirubin into his blood and staining his skin and the
whites of his eyes. Muscles need a lot of energy too and the heart
is a big muscle, so it starts to beat erratically causing his abnormal heart rhythm. And skeletal muscles consume energy too, but
theyâre starving of oxygen creating lactate, before the proteins start to slough off into
the bloodstream as they start to die too. These muscle proteins get caught in his kidneys,
tearing apart the tubules causing fulminant rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdo meaning striped or striated referring
to the striated characteristic of skeletal muscle. Myo referring to muscle. And lysis meaning a breaking down of. A breaking down of skeletal muscle. Fulminant meaning itâs happening suddenly,
and itâs life threatening. Doctors still dont know that GB injected magic
mushrooms, but the cyanide poisoning alone appears to explain everything that has happened
to him up to this point. Is there a way that the cyanide could be pulled
out of his body? Well, it was already done when the doctor
ordered the medical team to give him Vitamin B12. You see, vitamin B12 is officially named cobalamin
which has a cobalt inside. Cobalt is a metal. And the vitamin B12 you eat in gummy vitamins
is named cyanocobalamin, which has a cyanide ion on it, bound to: cobalt. This means injecting GB with a generic cobalamin
will cause it to act like a âstronger magnetâ pulling cyanide out of the mitochondria creating
a safe vitamin B12 megadose that can concentrate in his urine, and be excreted by his kidneys. As time goes by in the intensive care unit,
GBâs condition appears to improve. Things are looking up. But then things started to get worse, suddenly. It became apparent that more than just cyanide
poisoning was happening. GBâs blood pressure started to drop and
his heart rate started to increase. He started developing a fever that he didnât
have when he presented to the emergency room. Another blood test suggests that GB has bacteremia,
bacterial presence in blood. But which bacteria, exactly? And where did the bacteria come from? Doctors need to know which bacteria is floating
around and growing inside his blood so that they can give the right antibiotics. If the wrong ones are given, then the bacteria
can keep growing unchecked. But it takes days to grow that bacteria in
a petri dish, to find out. Days that GB doesnât have, because his chances
of dying from the infection increase every single hour. Doctors give general antibiotics. These can cover many kinds of bacteria, and
may not be the best one for the bacteria specifically floating inside GB, but it can MAYBE prevent
things from getting worse. As the hours pass, GB starts to go in to respiratory
distress. His blood pressure starts to drop because
his whole body is now inflamed. Itâs kind of like when you get a cut and
the area becomes swollen and redâ thatâs the body dilating the blood vessels and letting
white blood cells in, except in GBâs case, his whole body is swelling and dilating. And then he started bleeding from his nose. He starts to bleed out of his eyes and ears. Anywhere blood can flow out of GBâs body,
it starts to ooze out, meaning something is causing his blood to become thin, but what
could it be? Bacterial cultures return and tell the medical
team that Brevibacillus is growing and floating around in GBâs blood. This usually isnt found in hospitals, but
in soil, so maybe GB was dealing with some kind of plant or something, doctors thought. But the cultures also report that itâs not
just bacteria floating around in his blood, but fungus too, specifically Psilocybe cubensis,
meaning the dark web bought mushrooms GB micro dosed by injection were not only laced with
cyanide, but they were now growing in his blood, shutting down all of his organs again. The psychedelic chemical in magic mushrooms
is usually psilocybin. The interesting thing about psilocybin is
that by itself, itâs not active in the body. When someone eats a magic mushroom, it goes
in to their stomach, then absorbs into their liver where itâs broken down to psilocin,
which is active. In the brain is a chemical responsible for
sending signals called serotonin. We know that mood, sleep, learning, appetite
and memory are all affected by serotonin, also known as 5-Hydroxy tryptamine. And itâs no coincidence that chemicals that
have similar structures, can have different effects in the brain. Like melatonin for sleep. Or lysergic acid diethylamide which you might
know as LSD. Sometimes certain mushrooms will contain âother
things.â Natural products in general, contain hundreds
of different chemicals mixed together. Like something called the phenyl ethyl amines. A well known phenyl ethyl amine is alpha methyl
phenyl ethyl amine. Am fff et amine. Thereâs a beta keto amp ff et amine, also
known as cathinone, or bath salts. These are also somewhat related to trypt-amine,
which is part of di methyl tryptamine DMT and 5-hydroxy tryptamine also known as serotonin,
bringing us back to psychedelics. GB mistakenly thought that mushrooms would
help fix his depression. But from our current understanding, psilocin
works on MAINLY one type of serotonin receptor in the brain. Thereâs many other kinds of serotonin receptors
that would need to be addressed in a setting of clinically diagnosed depression, but this
isnât his only problem. When someone injects a mushroom brew, it floats
around the body before the liver breaks it down. So itâs not activatedâ itâs activated
when one eats it. Past cases of people injecting magic mushrooms
describe nausea, vomiting, fevers, muscle pain and headachesâ enough pain for them
to check in to the emergency room. It doesnt look like they were able to have
the regular trip one would have while EATING the mushrooms, only pain and suffering, just
like in GBâs case. His bleeding was fixed in the ICU because
the bacteremia and fungemia were directly acting on his bone marrow, which wasnât
making all of the blood clotting factors needed. When blood clots it becomes thick, so if it
canât clot, it becomes thinâ enough to start flowing out of every possible place
from his body. Proper antibiotics and anti fungal medicines
were administered. And he was discharged from the hospital with
long term prescriptions of those medicines. Having learned a lesson about self treatment,
about buying sketchy things from an unknown source online, and putting those sketchy things
in his veins, he made a recovery. Thanks so much for watching. Take care of yourself. And Be Well.
yeah, injecting mushroom tea? what the fuck?
While the guy who did this is dumb, I don't like that Chubby is making the bad move this dude made out to be like some common mistake people make among those who microdose.
This video would leave the lay person thinking that microdosing is a bad idea and dangerous. It's not, when done correctly. It's much safer than a full on trip.
Even a moron should know that injecting shroom tea is fucking stupid. This isn't common or sound advice in the microdosing community. Stop acting like it is Chubby.
You lost some respect from me, big time.
I need him to upload daily lol
I found news articles about this incident and none of them say anything about cyanide.