Cluster 1
Foundations
6 articles
How to Read Microdosing Claims
A practical reasoning posture for evaluating any claim about microdosing: distinguishing plausibility from efficacy, full-dose from microdose evidence, and reports from demonstrated outcomes.
Updated Jun 4, 2026
What 'Microdosing' Means in Research Literature
A long-form companion to the iMicrodosing.net cliff-notes summary. Examines how academic pharmacology defines microdosing and how the term entered separate public usage.
Updated May 15, 2026
What a Microdose Is
The precise definition of a psilocybin microdose: the sub-perceptual threshold, the typical dose range, and how a microdose differs from both a low recreational dose and a full psychedelic dose.
Updated Jun 4, 2026
What Microdosing Actually Is
A long-form companion to the iMicrodosing.net Foundations summary. Defines psilocybin microdosing, separates plausibility from evidence, and orients the reader to how this library treats the field.
Updated Jun 4, 2026
Where the Term 'Microdosing' Comes From
The history of the word microdosing: its separate origins in regulatory pharmacology and in popular psychedelic literature, James Fadiman's 2011 role, and how that divergence still shapes the field.
Updated Jun 4, 2026
Why Microdosing Is Difficult to Study
The structural reasons microdosing resists clean evidence: expectation effects, self-selection, the difficulty of blinding, and a thin controlled-trial base — and why more surveys will not resolve them.
Updated Jun 4, 2026