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#125 Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist

1 tim 47 min2 juni 2026

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Steven Barker is the world's longest-running DMT researcher and the analytical chemist who helped prove the molecule exists in the mammalian brain. He argues your brain manufactures its own psychedelic at the same concentration as serotonin — and floods your cortex with it under stress and as you die.Expect to learn why Steven believes your brain produces DMT at serotonin-level concentrations, how 29 years of drug-testing racehorses gave him the tools to find it, why he says David Nichols is wrong about endogenous DMT, why stress can make brain DMT spike tenfold, how a hidden receptor inside your neurons may explain how psychedelics rewire the brain, why the DMT trip might be neuroplasticity you can actually feel, what DMT entities really are, and much more…

Timestamps

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:40 The Recurring Dream That Started a 50-Year Obsession

0:06:53 Hunting For The Brain's Own Psychedelic In 1972

0:12:54 The Discovery That We ALL Make DMT

0:19:07 Were Psychedelics Ever Meant To Be Medicine?

0:22:17 How The War On Drugs Killed The Research

0:24:02 Funding Psychedelic Science With Racehorse Drug Tests

0:34:56 Why You Can't Patent A Psychedelic

0:36:31 The Psychedelic Trip Is Just An "Overdose"

0:41:58 Why David Nichols Is Wrong About DMT

0:50:16 The "Pineal Is Too Small" Argument Is Ludicrous

0:54:20 DMT Is In Your Brain At Serotonin Levels

1:01:00 Stress Floods Your Brain With DMT

1:02:32 Why Everyone Else Failed To Detect DMT

1:12:05 The Hidden Receptor Inside Your Neurons

1:19:54 Is The DMT Trip Just Neuroplasticity You Can Feel?

1:26:09 What DMT Entities Actually Are

1:32:15 Are We Building A New Psychedelic Religion?

1:42:11 50 Years of DMT and The Nature of Consciousness

1:44:26 Why He's Still A "Proud Reductionist"


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GS Episodes Mentioned

David Nichols — Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umTgXsW1lQ

Bryan Roth — Meet The World's Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmmmMma8Qs

Andrew Gallimore — No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDA

Guest Links

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven-Barker-8

Cottonwood Research Foundation: https://www.cottonwoodresearch.org

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