#MichaelPollan has written about psychedelics helping with the terminally ill ("How To Change Your MInd"). I told my doctor that if I'm ever terminal I want the mushrooms.
#psychdelics #endoflife #hospice
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/psychedelic-treatment-health-canada-9.7151538
Psychedlics helped him deal with terminal illness anxiety, but getting them was a long, strange trip | CBC

Five years after Pete Pearson, 75, was diagnosed with a terminal lung condition, he was experiencing debilitating anxiety and depression known as "end-of-life distress." He wanted to try psilocybin — commonly known as magic mushrooms — to see if it helped. After a lengthy and futile attempt to gain access to the drug legally through Health Canada, Pearson decided this was a trip he needed to take no matter what.

CBC

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/

Inspiring lecture from Michael Pollan: What is Consciousness?
Radboud University. His book: A World Appears - A Journey Into Consciousness #radboudreflects #michaelpollan #consciousness #radbouduniversity

Il Fatto Quotidiano: Cosa mangiamo davvero? L’indagine di Crude Verità su cibo, marketing e salute

“Quando facciamo la spesa pensiamo di scegliere il cibo migliore per la nostra salute. Ma siamo davvero sicuri di sapere cosa stiamo mangiando? Il giornalista americano Michael Pollan sostiene che per mangiare sano dovremmo comprare solo prodotti con al massimo cinque ingredienti. Abbiamo provato a verificarlo. Il risultato? Quasi nessun prodotto del supermercato supera il test. Quindi, se Pollan avesse ragione… saremmo tutti spacciati?”
Da questa domanda nasce “Crude Verità“, la nuova serie di TvLoft con il medico epidemiologo Franco Berrino e il giornalista scientifico Ennio Battista. Come in una vera indagine poliziesca, i due si muovono tra scaffali di supermercati, etichette nutrizionali, slogan pubblicitari e miti alimentari per capire chi ha trasformato il nostro cibo in un problema di salute pubblica.
Nelle dieci puntate della serie, Berrino e Battista smontano uno dopo l’altro i grandi pilastri dell’alimentazione industriale: colazioni piene di zuccheri nascosti, barrette vendute come salutari, prodotti “ricchi di proteine”, grassi demonizzati o rivalutati e molte altre promesse nutrizionali che hanno più a che fare con il marketing che con la scienza. L’indagine rivela una realtà scomoda: mangiamo guidati più dalla pubblicità che dalle evidenze scientifiche. E quello che chiamiamo cibo è spesso un prodotto industriale sempre più lontano dalla natura, nato da compromessi tra chimica, agricoltura intensiva e logiche di mercato. Berrino però non ci lascia senza alternative: un’altra via per mangiare sano e bene esiste.
Ma come in ogni giallo che si rispetti, non manca il colpo di scena. Nel finale di Crude Verità Battista mostra che l’arma del delitto – quella che ogni giorno mette a rischio la nostra salute – è nelle mani di tutti noi. Ed è pronta a sparare.
I primi cinque episodi della serie sono disponibili a partire da oggi, martedì 24 marzo, su TvLoft (www.tvloft.it) e i prossimi cinque a partire dal 7 aprile 2026.

L'articolo Cosa mangiamo davvero? L’indagine di Crude Verità su cibo, marketing e salute proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

What do we really eat? Crude Verità’s investigation into food, marketing, and health.

When we do the grocery shopping, we think we’re choosing the best food for our health. But are we really sure we know what we’re eating? American journalist Michael Pollan argues that to eat healthily, we should buy products with a maximum of five ingredients. We tried to verify this. The result? Almost no supermarket product passes the test. So, if Pollan is right… would we all be fooled?

This question gives rise to “Crude Verities,” the new TvLoft series with epidemiologist-doctor Franco Berrino and scientific journalist Ennio Battista. Like a real police investigation, the two move between supermarket shelves, nutritional labels, advertising slogans, and food myths to understand who has turned our food into a public health problem.

In the ten episodes of the series, Berrino and Battista dismantle one by one the great pillars of industrial nutrition: breakfasts full of hidden sugars, bars sold as healthy, products “rich in protein,” fats demonized or reevaluated, and many other nutritional promises that have more to do with marketing than science. The investigation reveals an uncomfortable reality: we eat more guided by advertising than by scientific evidence. And what we call food is often an industrial product increasingly distant from nature, born from compromises between chemistry, intensive agriculture, and market logic. However, Berrino doesn’t leave us without alternatives: another way to eat healthy and well exists.

But like any good mystery, there’s a twist in the ending. In the finale of Crude Verities, Battista shows that the weapon of the crime – the one that every day puts our health at risk – is in our hands, and it’s ready to fire.

The first five episodes of the series are available from today, Tuesday, March 24th, on TvLoft (www.tvloft.it) and the next five from April 7th, 2026.

The article What Do We Really Eat? The Investigation of Crude Verities on Food, Marketing, and Health comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

#CrudeVerità’s #American #MichaelPollan #Pollan #CrudeVerities #TvLoft #FrancoBerrino #EnnioBattista #Berrino #Battista #first #IlFattoQuotidiano

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/03/25/cosa-mangiamo-davvero-lindagine-di-crude-verita-su-cibo-marketing-e-salute/8334708/

Cosa mangiamo davvero? L’indagine di Crude Verità su cibo, marketing e salute

Berrino e Battista svelano come l’industria alimentare trasforma il cibo in rischio per la salute e mostrano che la scelta giusta è nelle nostre mani.

Il Fatto Quotidiano
Got to see Michael Pollan at Crest theater last night. Very cool tangent on consciousness that he's written about. Cool to follow his progression from food and plants to psychedelics and the mind, to the future of consciousness.
#MichaelPollan #Sacramento #consciousness

In every human relationship, even a loving relationship, there’s friction. That friction is what helps us define our identities and realize what we think. You don’t get that with a chatbot; they suck up to you.

#Books #Mind #MichaelPollan

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/mar/05/michael-pollan-book-a-world-appears-consciousness-hygiene

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms

The Guardian

"He [ #MichaelPollan ] recently suggested that people need a “consciousness hygiene” to defend our internal world against invaders that are trying to move in. Our ability to sit with our thoughts and perceive the world, he argues, is increasingly disrupted by algorithms engineered to tickle our dopamine receptors and capture our attention. Meanwhile, people are forming attachments to non-human chatbots, projecting consciousness on to entities that do not possess it."

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/mar/05/michael-pollan-book-a-world-appears-consciousness-hygiene

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms

The Guardian

🧠 "Michael Pollan ci avverte: l'AI non è la panacea che tutti speriamo. C'è più di quel che sembra sotto la superficie" ✍️ #michaelpollan #AIdebunked #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology

🔗 https://aibay.it/notizie/michael-pollan-sgonfia-la-bolla-dellai-2026-02-25

Michael Pollan sgonfia la bolla dell'AI

La nuova opera di Michael Pollan esplora il territorio della coscienza in un momento in cui l'intelligenza artificiale pretende di poterla replicare, rivelando quanto tale ambizione sia ancora lontana.

AiBay

Michael Pollan: AI Can Mimic Thought, But Lacks True Consciousness

Michael Pollan explains why AI can seem smart but will never be truly conscious like humans. Learn about feelings, the body, and the self.

#MichaelPollan, #AI, #Consciousness, #ArtificialIntelligence, #FutureOfAI

https://newsletter.tf/michael-pollan-ai-mimic-thought-no-consciousness/