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Shrooms and Orange Juice
So you’ve heard that orange juice can affect your shroom trip. But how does this work?
Mixing shrooms with OJ is a popular topic; we are here to set the record straight on the chemistry behind it.
Many factors contribute to the effects of magic mushrooms and orange juice. How does the orange juice affect the psilocybin? Does it make the shrooms stronger? Or does it make the effects of them wear off faster?
Your body’s individual chemistry will also play a role.
Here is an explanation of how drinking some OJ affects your shroom trip.
Key Takeaways:
- Orange juice and magic mushrooms work together due to the citric acid in OJ.
- The acid helps to break down psilocybin into psilocin, which causes you to trip.
- Orange juice makes the effects of shrooms stronger and enhances the journey.
- Mixing shrooms and orange juice can have varying effects, but taking it before the onset will enhance your trip.
- Drinking orange juice after the peak may help to soften the effects and help your body flush out the active chemicals.
- Lemon juice is a popular alternative to orange juice in enhancing the trip.
- Magic mushrooms can provide a strong or mild experience, depending on the dosage.
- Orange juice can help mask the bitterness of mushrooms and provide vitamins and energy.
- The positive health benefits of OJ persist after the trip has run its course.
Magic Mushrooms and Orange Juice
Why does orange juice have any effect on psilocybin? The answer lies in the citric acid present in OJ. Like lemon tek, citric acid helps your stomach process the psilocybin into psilocin, which your body processes.
Psilocin is the chemical that causes you to trip; it’s consumed as psilocybin, which your stomach acid breaks down into Psilocin. Psilocin is unstable in regular environments, so inside your stomach, it is processed quickly in a contained environment.
Over the past decade, the common wisdom on mushrooms has been that lemon juice works by mimicking the acidity in the stomach and starts to break down the mushrooms when consumed. So grind your dried magic mushrooms, mix them, and squeeze the orange juice into a small glass. The effect is similar to any citrus juice containing citric acid.
The real factor is timing; let us explain how orange juice and mushrooms work together to enhance your trip or help it smooth out.
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Does Orange Juice Enhance Shrooms for a Stronger Trip?
This is the most common question: Does orange juice make shrooms hit harder? If you’re looking for a stronger trip, here is the answer.
The best-understood mechanism is that citric acid in orange juice breaks down psilocybin faster than stomach acid, which makes the fungi effects hit harder. Most evidence is strong enough that fresh orange juice helps the mushrooms become stronger.
Funnily enough, some experts say that certain fruit juices are more likely to influence the journey route, and orange juice is one of them. So, if you feel like drinking orange juice, your journey will be faster and more intense; it won’t hurt and helps you stay hydrated.
How to Mix Shrooms & OJ
There are a couple of ways to do this: either mix the shrooms in some OJ before consuming them or drink a glass of orange juice right after eating them.
The key element is mixing the shrooms and OJ when the mushrooms are most potent, with the most psilocybin. This way, the juice helps to break down the psilocybin faster than your body would without it.
Don’t let the magic mushrooms sit in the juice for too long, or the citric acid will break down the psilocybin, and the psilocin will oxidize in the open air.
It is well known that combining shrooms with orange juice can take your magic mushroom journey to the next level. Combining shrooms and orange juice leads to rapid and intense ups and downs, and the journey is much better.
How Does it Taste?
The mixture of shrooms and orange juice, especially fresh orange juice, is tangy and bitter, so the flavours actually complement each other.
Magic mushrooms and storebought orange juice from concentrate also taste better than shrooms on their own, but the mixture of the watered OJ and funky mushies doesn’t mix as well. But you tell us!
What’s important is to grind the shrooms enough, so they mix with the liquid and can be drunk easily, so you don’t get a lot of, or any, chunks.
Will Orange Juice Prevent a Bad Trip?
As mentioned above, orange juice may lead to more intense effects of psilocybin mushrooms. But will OJ prevent a bad trip? There is some evidence that it can, but the efficacy is not certain.
Let us explain. Since the citric acid in orange juice breaks down the psilocybin faster, drinking orange juice when the mushrooms are starting to affect you will increase the intensity. This is also a double-edged sword; if you’ve had a large enough dose and intensify it with orange juice, you might be in for a wild ride.
But once the shrooms have peaked and are starting to wear off, orange juice may help to soften the effects and help your body flush out the active chemicals.
A bad trip goes hand in hand with the amount of shrooms you consume, so if you take a large dose, the citric acid will not help much, but it can be satiating and taste good.
If you have taken a small dose and feel the effects wavering, drinking some orange juice will help your body stay hydrated, give you some energy, provide vitamins and assist your liver and kidneys in flushing out chemicals to reach a more sober state.
The key element of OJ is breaking down the psilocybin into psilocin. If that process has been completed, the acid has already done its job, and you will only benefit from the other great aspects of orange juice.
Does Orange Juice Kill a Mushroom Trip?
The short answer is no; orange juice does not kill a mushroom trip. This belief likely stems from the misconception that the vitamin C in orange juice can somehow neutralize the psychoactive effects of psilocybin and psilocin, the active compounds in psychedelic mushrooms.
Unfortunately, Vitamin C does not interact chemically with psilocybin to diminish its effects. Instead, as mentioned previously, some users report that the acidity of orange juice may even enhance the psychedelic experience by converting psilocybin into psilocin, its active form, more quickly.
Therefore, drinking orange juice may alter, but not terminate, the intensity or duration of a mushroom trip.
Should I take Magic mushrooms and OJ?
One of the most popular reasons people combine mushrooms with orange juice is to mask the bitterness of mushrooms. The juice’s strong flavour helps cover up the potent mushroom flavour.
Mixing shrooms and orange juice can have varying effects, but taking it before the onset will enhance your trip and help them come on a bit faster.
What are some alternatives to orange juice?
The tangy treat, typical of Shrooms, is favoured in a widespread practice called lemon tek. This practice uses sour fruit juice to improve the absorption rate of medications and compress your journey into a shorter, more intense experience. In other words, the most practical combination of drinks and medicines is not acid (orange juice and shrooms) but lemon juice, as it contains more citric acid.
One man in Oregon who keeps raving about lemon tequila described how he let his homemade mushrooms sit 15 minutes in lemon juice before drinking a shot of lemon juice, and “[his] mind went back to [his] high school friends chasing their shrooms with orange juice.”
A strong theory is that this is a significant factor in what happens when our stomach acid breaks down fungi. Many people say the trick is eating mushrooms with lemon tek instead of drinking tea. When you consume your lemon juice extract and hasten the mushrooms a little, many people report that it is an intoxicating feeling rather than a physical one.
Taking shrooms without eating much can also help break down the psilocybin faster.
Conclusion
Magic mushrooms are often associated with psilocybin, but psilocin is the substance that makes you most likely to experience magic mushrooms. Study after study has shown that magic mushrooms and their psychoactive substances can restore balance to the brain and help treat psychiatric disorders such as PTSD, anxiety and depression.
Giordano and Chris Witowski, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Psilera Biosciences, have heard anecdotal reports of orange juice-enriched acid trips, but neither Giordano nor Witowski has a scientific explanation. “Every night, my friends drink 6-8 screwdrivers and eat 2 grams of mushrooms. They ate it last month and felt the effects, but the rest still stumble across the balls.”
Depending on the dosage, magic mushrooms can provide a strong or mild experience. To improve your trip strength, take a larger dose and drink orange or lemon juice. The juice alone will not be the main factor in trip intensity.
The positive health benefits of OJ persist, so it’s never a bad idea to stay hydrated and get the vitamins once your trip has run its course.
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